CMS has released a proposal to strengthen the Shared Savings Program for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) by placing more emphasis on primary care services and promoting transitions to performance-based risk arrangements. CMS proposes to refine the way Medicare beneficiaries are assigned to...
About 50,000 people are alive today because U.S. hospitals committed 17% fewer medical errors in 2013 than in 2010, government health officials said on Tuesday. The lower rate of fatalities from poor care and mistakes was one of several "historic improvements" in hospital quality and safety...
This may not be credentialing-specific news, but it will likely boost patient satisfaction scores. Michigan’s Henry Ford Health System will adopt a new hospital gown that aims to put the wraps on a big source of patients’ grumbles—a lack of rear coverage. Resembling a wrap-around robe, the "...
More than half the dermatologists in 12 Medicare Advantage plan directories were dead, retired, not accepting new patients, or specialized only in specific conditions, according to a study published last week in JAMA Dermatology online. Researchers also found that about 46% of the...
DNV GL last week announced it had certified two Virginia healthcare facilities—Sentara Leigh and Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital—as the first two Centers of Excellence for its new Managing Infection Risk (MIR) certification, recognizing exceptional processes and an approach to...
The results are in for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s second Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture. The survey, designed to measure the culture of patient safety in outpatient medical offices, gauges staff and provider attitudes about patient...
