The Secretarial Summit on Health Information Technology unveiled a 10-year plan to develop a national electronic health infrastructure.
The Secretarial Summit on Health Information Technology unveiled a 10-year plan to develop a national electronic health infrastructure.
Turning clinical research and innovations into actual practices that enhance quality care--at both the hospital level and the health system level--can be challenging. But many organizations are finding creative ways to get those ideas on the front line.
Many evidence-based programs and interventions have been adopted into clinical practice only partially if at all. But several successful clinical programs highlight lessons to be learned to make those practices reality.
Approximately 195,000 people in the United States died from potentially preventable in-hospital medical errors--or double the highest number estimated by the Institute of Medicine in its 1999 landmark report--in 2000, 2001, and 2002, according to a new study of 37 million patient records.
When it comes to pediatric checkups, parent satisfaction ratings appear to be strongly related to the content and quality of the care their children receive. However, only 57% of parents reported that their child received a developmental assessment screening procedure to detect disabilities that could compromise learning, social interactions, and other functions, according to a first-ever nationwide pediatric study.
When Quint Studer was president of Baptist Hospital, Inc., in Pensacola, FL, he oversaw a metamorphosis in which the organization's patient and employee satisfaction levels rose to some of the highest rankings in the nation. Now, as head of his own company and author of a new book, he's telling other hospitals and healthcare systems how they can "hardwire excellence" and be the quality organizations they want to be.
The Commonwealth Fund's International Working Group on Quality Indicators has brought together representatives from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom to look at which indicators could help benchmark and compare health system performance.
Despite the availability of hundreds of evidence-based studies, many hospitals--caught up in a wave of new construction and development--are running afoul of the cardinal rule of medicine: First, do no harm, says a new industry report.
Is quality healthcare in the United States making the grade in any community? According to researchers in a new RAND Corp. report, poor preventive, acute, and chronic care exist everywhere. The researchers say the study should serve as "a wake-up call" for all communities to evaluate and improve their quality of care.
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