Patient Safety Organization (PSO) involvement is producing direct benefits for members, according to Rory Jaffe, MD, MBA, of the California Hospital Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO) in Sacramento.
Baptist Memorial Health Care System joined theTennessee Center for Patient Safety, an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)–listed Patient Safety Organization (PSO), more than two years ago. In June 2012, Sharon Fiveash, RN, MSN, assumed the role of PSO administrator...
Although many hospitals are signing on with Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs), a number are still on the sidelines for various reasons. There is the fear that reported data will be discoverable; uncertainty about what reporting to a PSO entails, what data to include, and...
CMS last week released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on potential payment and care delivery models that focus on outpatient specialty care and complex/chronic disease management care. The RFI could affect a broad group of healthcare stakeholders,including physician specialty...
A controlled study of 11 nursing homes indicates that switching from on-call to telemedicine physician coverage during off hours could reduce hospitalizations, and generate cost savings to Medicare in excess of the facility’s investment in the service. However, the savings were evident only at...
James "Butch" Rosser, MD, has found through his research that surgeons who “warm up” for procedures by playing video games such as Super Monkey Ball and Wii Golf are more efficient and make fewer mistakes in minimally invasive surgery. "So as far as I'm concerned, we cannot rest until...