Quality and Safety
The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), a statewide leadership group that promotes quality improvement, accountability and affordability of healthcare in California, has named its top 45 performing physician organizations for 2009 based on the IHA statewide Pay for Performance (P4P) program measures.
A UCLA-led consortium of five University of California medical schools and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has received a $9.9 million grant from HHS's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to investigate the use of wireless and telephone care management to reduce hospital readmissions for heart failure patients.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is launching a one-year study aimed at ensuring the efficacy of information technology in improving healthcare safety.
A recent study conducted by the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare, revealed that daily text messages providing medication reminders and information about atopic dermatitis (a type of eczema) significantly improved treatment adherence, self-care behaviors, skin severity and quality of life for dermatology patients.
Hillside Avenue Family and Community Medicine has reduced the need for patient emergency room usage by more than 10 percent over the past year. The Rhode Island practice used McKesson's Practice Partner electronic health record solution to improve the health of chronically ill patients.
Automated care coordination gaining traction in physician, homecare sectors.
The devotion teenagers pay to their text messages may not be a bad thing, if children's hospitals can use it to help boost medication adherence in their patients.
Hospitals are making progress on collecting and reporting healthcare-associated infection (HAI) data to a national network, according to a new survey by the Premier healthcare alliance.
In today's charged debates about healthcare, one issue enjoys strong bipartisan support: the need to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse that collectively cost as much as $700 billion annually - nearly one-third of total healthcare spending.
The Association of Northern California Oncologists (ANCO) will use the web-based Via Oncology Pathways tool to aid in its evidence-based oncology treatment regimen, aimed at forging stronger payer-provider partnerships.