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The ECRI has issued a guidebook to help hospitals address what the institute has deemed a top health technology hazard, alarm fatigue. “The Alarm Safety Handbook: Strategies, Tools, and Guidance”–available in print and in electronic formats–is designed to help hospitals identify ways to minimize alarm fatigue, develop an action plan and put that plan into […]
Read MoreThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has long used venous thromboembolism (VTE) rates to determine hospital care quality, but a report finds this measure may not indicate care quality, according to Anesthesiology News. Rather than reflecting quality, a provider’s VTE rates indicate the frequency with which it conducts imaging tests–in short, hospitals that look […]
Read MoreSome experts think the “Kaiser-fication” of healthcare in the wake of the Affordable Care Act(ACA) may be good for the industry. Other hospitals could mimic Kaiser Permanente’s focus on affordability, technology, electronic health records and healing to meet ACA guidelines, CEO Bernard Tyson said. Reducing lengths of stay saves the organization money, whereas some traditional […]
Read MoreI wanted our readers to be aware of this since many of our reader’s hospitals may be acquired in the near future. Healthcare merger and acquisition spending jumped to $135.2 billion during the second quarter of this year, a 152 percent increase from $53.6 billion during the second quarter of 2013, according to an Irving […]
Read MoreHigh-reliability organizations don’t implement best practices. They continually make new best practices. Healthcare is an industry obsessed with best practices. And for good reason. Our costs our growing almost uncontrollably, and quality is highly variable from hospital to hospital, department to department and physician to physician. It makes sense, then, that organizations seeking to improve […]
Read MoreA new Gallup poll has revealed the 10 states with the largest declines in uninsured rates since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act took effect at the beginning of the year all expanded Medicaid. To calculate the change in the uninsured rate in each state, Gallup compared the states’ uninsured rates in 2013 to […]
Read MoreThis is important for our readers who practice in a hospital is because every time there is a new CEO there is a possibility of your practice getting outsourced. According to the American College of Healthcare Executives, the average hospital CEO turnover rate increased in 2013 to 20 percent. This percentage is the highest turnover […]
Read MoreThe Congressional Budget Office has released its 2014 long-term budget outlook, which projects federal debt held by the public will rise during the next 25 years to the highest percentage in the country’s history since just after World War II. The report also includes information and estimates concerning healthcare spending, along with information on the […]
Read MoreI wanted to share this because many of our readers work in a nonprofit hospital so I wanted them to know this information. Nonprofit hospital cash flow margins and revenue growth reached record lows in fiscal year 2013, according to a report from Moody’s Investors Service. Financial medians for 2013 show nonprofit hospital operating revenue […]
Read MoreThe Center for Medicare Advocacy has filed a lawsuit on behalf of five Medicare beneficiaries who allegedly had to wait longer than the 90-day statutory limit to resolve appeals over Medicare claims denials The proposed nationwide class-action lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Connecticut against the Obama Administration. Under the Medicare Act, appeals […]
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