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The 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 […]
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