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Quality and Safety

Quality & Safety
By Bernie Monegain | 05:26 pm | July 12, 2018
Both the National Guideline Clearninghouse and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shut it down on July 16.
Population Health
By Bill Siwicki | 12:02 pm | July 11, 2018
Physicians at Affiliated Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons of Maryland now have a better handle on opioid prescribing as they try to combat the ongoing crisis.
Electronic Health Records
By Bill Siwicki | 02:11 pm | July 06, 2018
It has seen a 21 percent decrease in missed doses, a 66 percent reduction in wasted doses and zero reportable adverse events in the past 11 months.
Electronic Health Records
By Bernie Monegain | 04:04 pm | July 02, 2018
Healthpoint, its hospital in Abu Dhabi, hopes the new technology will help it advance from Stage 6 to Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model.
Analytics
By Mike Miliard | 02:57 pm | July 02, 2018
It's the second such collaboration, using real-world clinical data to track device performance, following the health system's 2017 agreement with Medtronic.
Analytics
By Bernie Monegain | 12:37 pm | July 02, 2018
Its new Hospital Operating System will help the safety net provider improve care coordination and develop shared patient progression and length-of-stay targets.
Revenue Cycle
By Mike Miliard | 11:33 am | June 22, 2018
Beyond HCAHPS: CXOs are looking for technology to offer better patient experience as a competitive differentiator.
Electronic Health Records
By Bill Siwicki | 03:58 pm | June 19, 2018
Clinicians enter quality improvement data at the same time they enter charge capture data, enabling a more timely and robust quality effort.
Revenue Cycle
By HIMSS TV | 04:32 pm | June 18, 2018
Hans Aubauer, general director of the Social Security Service of Austria, explains how his country is incentivizing the clinical and the patient community to improve care quality.
Electronic Health Records
By Bill Siwicki | 04:04 pm | June 13, 2018
As many as 80 percent of sepsis deaths could be prevented with rapid diagnosis and treatment, which is why Halifax has brought together this triumvirate of health IT for prescriptive alerts.