Quality and Safety
Creating specialized hospital units for elderly people with acute medical illness could reduce national healthcare costs by as much as $6 billion a year, according to a recent study by University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers.
Harvey Riceberg, inpatient pharmacy supervisor at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada tells Healthcare Finance News Editor Rene Letourneau how the organization saved $750,000 in drug waste costs by implementing a new technology into their drug administering process.
Last week, Kimberly-Clark Health Care announced the four recipients of the second-annual HAI WATCHDOG Awards, created to recognize the efforts of healthcare professionals working together to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
The Physician Sentiment Index, conducted by Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth and Cambridge, Mass.-based Sermo, indicates that the majority of doctors expect the quality of healthcare to decrease in the near future.
Acting CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner and other healthcare leaders discuss how the industry is dealing with the practical issues of establishing ACOs at the Third National Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Summit in Washington, D.C., June 6-8.
A new psychiatric demonstration project administered by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation seeks to test if changing a 47-year-old Medicaid exclusion can lead to better care and lower costs.
As the number of home health agencies and fraud cases related to home health agencies continues to skyrocket, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) is exerting more pressure on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to fulfill an obligation that is 15 years old.
A new partnership between Birmingham, Ala.-based Proventix Systems, Alabama Power and 27 hospitals across Alabama is helping to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), improving patient outcomes and contributing to bringing down healthcare costs.
Two initiatives that could drastically lower the likelihood of heart failure patient readmissions were presented in March at the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 61st Annual Scientific Session.
Amistad, a non-profit corporation that provides peer support to individuals with serious life challenges in Portland, Maine, has launched a new program to provide alternative solutions for those who frequently use the emergency department for psychiatric crisis.