Search results for "Quality measures"
CMS gives hospitals star ratings for overall care, expands bundled payments
The new Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating summarizes data from existing publicly reported quality measures into a single star rating for each hospital on the Hospital Compare website, while the proposed expansion of the bundled payment program includes new or changed bundles for cardiac care, hip surgery, and cardiac rehabilitation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/08/03/1.htm
3 Aug 2016
ACC, AHA release updated performance, quality measures for afib
The performance measures include 3 that are specific to inpatient care: documentation of risk scoring, an anticoagulation prescription, and a follow-up plan for warfarin management.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/06/29/1.htm
29 Jun 2016
Fixing, not fighting, electronic systems
Even health IT experts get angry at their electronic medical records, but the solution is to work with your computers rather than toss them.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/05/fixing-EHRs.htm
15 May 2016
Medicare reports on the 2016 Physician Fee Schedule Value Modifier
For physicians who haven't begun working on the Value Modifier, 2016 is the year for immediate action.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/05/coding-physician-fee-schedule-value-modifier.htm
15 May 2016
Perfecting post-acute care
Hospitalists take bigger role in postdischarge decisions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/04/post-acute-care.htm
15 Apr 2016
Optimizing heart failure medications at discharge
Guidelines, nonadherence, interactions, and transitions make for tricky balance.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/02/heart-failure-medications-discharge.htm
15 Feb 2016
In the News
Best practice advice on PE, contamination of protective gear, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/12/in-the-news.htm
15 Dec 2015
Top Docs
Meet ACP Hospitalist's 2015 Top Hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/11/top-hospitalists-2015.htm
15 Nov 2015
Acute decompensated heart failure
Morning Report, a new feature, discusses the clinical and administrative aspects of a fictional but realistic hospital case from admission to discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/10/morning-report-heart-failure.htm
15 Oct 2015
HCAHPS physician communication scores improve as gap closes between hospitals
Hospitals whose scores were in the highest quartile in 2007 had a statistically significant decrease in them over the following 7 years.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/10/07/4.htm
7 Oct 2015