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Consumer Reports has rated U.S. hospitals on how patients fare during and after surgery.
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Electronic prescribing with a basic clinical decision support system could have prevented 32% of paper-based prescribing errors, according to a recent study, but electronic medical records also pose potential legal risks.
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Electronic medical record (EMR) documentation creates some legal risks that didn't exist with paper charting.
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Patients at Danville, PA-based Geisinger Health System can create their own estimates online via a self-serve portal, MyEstimate.
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A growing number of healthcare workers are coming into their professions with childhood vaccination against the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Yet 5% to 10% of them might unknowingly be non-responders, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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In a just-released report, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that outpatient surgical procedures that do not pose significant risk to patients performed in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) have saved Medicare more than $1 billion in each of the last several years.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it will delay implementation of the new quality reporting measure ASC-11, Cataracts: Improvement in Patients Visual Function within 90 Days Following Cataract Surgery, until Jan. 1, 2015, according to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA).
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With the help of personalized recorded discharge information and educational videos available to patients by telephone or computer, Cullman (AL) Regional Hospital has reduced 30-day readmissions by 15% and increased scores on the discharge section of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) by 63%.