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They speak a different language, and the lore in society is they are completely otherworldly, but engineers may be the missing tool in you quality toolbox, the thing that makes you see a problem in a novel way, approach its solution differently.
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A hundred hospitals have joined a new system to track needlesticks and other healthcare injuries, the first such national surveillance since 2007.
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When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that it would offer 68% payment for organizations that would drop their appeals with a deadline of acceptance of November 2, many wondered who might accept the terms.
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Monitoring patients’ hearts with telemetry seems innocuous enough. It’s not invasive, and it’s an extra pair of eyes keeping track of a key vital function.
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when you thought you were getting a handle on reducing readmissions for your Medicare population, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has another task for you: Look at your Medicaid readmissions, because you may find that those patients are bouncing back in at least the same quantity as your older patients.
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Observation status has been under the radar for a while, and with the two-midnight rule in full force, getting patients to the right place on a ward or discharged appropriately has taken on new urgency.
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It’s an intuitive truth that makes sense to just about anyone who hears it: If you are having a procedure done, you want to go to someone who has a lot of experience doing that procedure.
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Even if patient access employees follow all the necessary steps to obtain an authorization for a procedure, the payer might still want to talk to another person before granting the authorization: the patient’s physician.
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Most data breaches are fully preventable, and Beazley Breach Response (BBR) Services, an Atlanta company providing breach response insurance, offers these five ways to avoid them:
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Goals in patient access areas at Cincinnati (OH) Children’s Hospital Medical Center have three areas of focus: the patient’s and family’s satisfaction, finances, and compliance, says Michelle Gray, MHA, director of registration services.
