To truly drive safety at scale, healthcare organizations will have to look beyond just adverse events and better leverage insights from one of the most valuable, but often underutilized, sources of safety data: near misses.
Kinnos — a startup reimagining the way hospitals disinfect their surfaces by colorizing the process — recently raised $15 million in financing. Through better sanitization practices, the company is seeking to decrease hospital-acquired infections, which cause 72,000 deaths every year.
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services identified 786 hospitals that will receive lower payments for a year under the Hospital-Acquired Conditions Reduction Program and it included seven of the 21 hospitals on the U.S. News Best Hospitals Honor Roll.
Seventy-one percent of reusable medical scopes deemed ready for use on patients tested positive for bacteria at three major U.S. hospitals, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.
CMS is cracking down on hospital-acquired infections, starting with MRSA and C. difficile.
At least 79 cases of infection tied to Sorin heater-cooler units in the U.S. and worldwide have been reported to the FDA since 2010, including 12 deaths. Those numbers are expected to rise.
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San Antonio-based Xenex Disinfection Services produces the germ-zapping robots, which emanate pulsed UV light in high doses.
According to the inspectors’ report, the head of infection control at the hospital not only neglected to monitor the compounding lab, but also falsified documents to cover up her failure to check practices in the operating rooms in 2015.
The DEVICE Act would impose new requirements on manufacturers. The companies would have to notify the FDA when they issue safety warnings in other countries related to the design and cleaning of their devices.
The newly formed Electronic Hand Hygiene Compliance Organization, or EHCO, plans on lobbying CMS, private payers, the Joint Commission and patient safety organizations.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Also, an early stage clinical trial of a pain medication has led to hospitalizations and one death.
"That rate is still too high," AHRQ said in its report, even though a press release from HHS tried to paint a rosier picture.
This week, Consumer Reports called out "12 hospitals you might want to avoid," and named names.
If transmitting superbugs with scopes such a problem, why do we use the reusable devices?
SwipeSense graduated from Healthbox, which has invested in the business along with Jumpstart.