In the past decade, as improving patient safety became a major initiative, healthcare organizations began to look at how companies and agencies in other fields minimize failures and prevent errors. Many are now taking a closer look at high-reliability training as a way to...
Thirty-three percent of Joint Commission-accredited hospitals reporting accountability measure data for 2012 are Top Performer hospitals, delivering evidence-based care processes in the right way and at the right time, according to The Joint Commission’s latest Annual Report on Quality and...
The 21st annual National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week is just ahead, from November 3-9. In honor of all that MSPs do, HCPro is offering you and your colleagues a 20% discount on all of our medical staff and credentialing products from November 4 to 8. Visit the HCMarketplace...
Does your organization have a utilization management committee?
Did you know that, hidden away in the CMS Conditions of Participation (CoP), there is an often-overlooked requirement that is ideal for increasing medical staff involvement and improving practice evaluation...
A program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville is making significant inroads in helping physicians improve the way they practice medicine or change behaviors after patients complain about them, either because of their actions or their clinical work. If they are having trouble...
The U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee earlier this week approved the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act (S. 1557), legislation that would reauthorize the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program through fiscal year 2018. The...
