Quality & Patient Safety
The AHA Physician Alliance July 10 at 3:30 p.m. ET will host a webinar featuring Chris Moriates, M.D., a hospital medicine physician and assistant dean for health care value at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin.
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ hospital inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year 2019.
- Medicare
- Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS)
- Medicare DSH
- Electronic Health Records (EHRs) - Meaningful Use
- Health Information Technology (HIT)
- Interoperability
- Medicare Area Wage Index (AWI)
- Hospital Readmission Reduction Program
- Value-based payment
- Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program
- Electronic Clinical Quality Measures
- Quality & Patient Safety
- Quality Measures
An Innovative Way to Manage Radiation Dose Compliance Across Your Enterprise
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AHA letter to the House expressing support of H.R. 6082, the Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety (OPPS) Act, which would align 42 CFR Part 2 with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for the purposes of treatment, payment and health care operations.
For the women and men of America’s hospitals and health systems, nothing is more important than the safety of the patients for whom they are privileged to care.
Next week, June 20-22, the AHA is hosting a Team Training National Conference in San Diego for health care organizations to improve patient safety by successfully implementing and sustaining TeamSTEPPS, an evidence-based set of teamwork tools. Hospitals and health systems across the U.S. have used…
Hospital-acquired conditions declined by 8% between 2014 and 2016, preventing an estimated 8,000 deaths and $2.9 billion in health care costs, according to results reported today by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Medtronic has recalled more than 204,000 devices used to assist hospital and other patients with end-stage heart failure due to the potential for power source interruptions, the Food and Drug Administration reported Friday.
The Food and Drug Administration this week issued a safety communication reminding health care professionals of factors that increase the risk of surgical fires on or near a patient and offering recommendations to reduce these fires from occurring.
Innovation Leadership Challenge: Collaborating to Improve Hospital Flow, Save Lives and Reduce Costs
Date: July 25, 2018
Time: 8:00- 5:00 p.m. PT