Making Quality a Daily Habit
Sustainable quality doesn’t live in binders or dashboards; it lives in the small, repeatable actions that happen every day.
Quality Isn’t Just a Checkbox — Can Better Workforce Skills Drive Lower Costs?
Healthcare quality isn’t improving at scale, despite advances in technology, because many systems treat it as another compliance task rather than a priority. Stephanie Mercado, CEO of the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), argued that investing in workforce skills and standardizing roles can drive safer, higher-quality care while delivering measurable cost savings — as shown by successes at the VA, Kaiser Permanente and Christus Health.
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MedCity News Pivot Podcast: How Emergency Departments Are Using Real-Time Data to Improve Outcomes
How can AI benefit and improve patient outcome in the emergency department? Watch the latest episode to find out.
The New Language of Quality: What AI Is Teaching Us About Documentation
By uncovering patterns in real time, identifying gaps as they emerge, and surfacing insights at the point of care, AI is reshaping how we define and pursue quality.
Utilization: The Hidden Revenue Leak in VBC
High-performing groups treat utilization with the same rigor they apply to coding and quality. Here are four key principles we’ve seen successful organizations adopt.
How to Take Out the Data Garbage and Create AI Gold
If healthcare leaders hope to demonstrate ROI on AI investments, reduce clinician burnout, and meet compliance requirements, they must first ensure the integrity of their clinical data.
The Hidden Cost of Disconnected Quality Systems: Why Hospitals Should Modernize Now
The case for modernization isn’t solely about improving efficiency. It’s about equipping hospitals with the resources necessary to manage risk proactively, respond to negative trends quickly, and prioritize patient safety with high reliability.
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Enhanced Direct Enrollment: Georgia Access and the Power of Partnership
Across the nation, state-based health insurance exchanges are searching for ways to better serve their communities while making enrollment easier, more personal, and more accessible for everyone.
3 Things Hospitals Must Remember to Drive Better Quality & Safety
To improve patient outcomes, hospitals must enable collaboration across disciplines, engage frontline staff in decision making, and make changes based on patient feedback, according to a panel of health system executives.
Study: Rural hospitals that merged or were bought saw death rates drop
The mortality rates at rural hospitals for certain conditions, including heart attacks and stroke, decreased in the years following a merger or an acquisition compared with facilities that remained independent, a new study shows. This is a departure from research done on the effects of M&A on urban hospitals.
CareMax to add 50 new senior care centers through Anthem collaboration
The senior care provider currently operates 34 medical centers offering healthcare and social services, like transportation. Through the collaboration, the companies will bring more seniors into value-based arrangements with the goal of improving outcomes for Anthem patients.
Providers to HHS: ACO quality reporting changes create undue burdens
Eleven provider organizations sent a letter to HHS urging them to reconsider the new rules around quality measurement and reporting for ACOs. One of the reasons these rules are burdensome and should be revised is the lack of EHR interoperability, they said.
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Esperion Sets Its Sights on New Areas While Maintaining Commitment to Cardiovascular Health
In a recent interview, Esperion president and CEO, Sheldon Koenig talks about the reality of statin intolerance and his company’s expansion into new diseases
Apervita, Diameter Health join forces to improve data quality for value-based care contracting
Health IT company Apervita will leverage Diameter Health's capabilities — which include cleaning and enriching clinical data — to enhance data quality for stakeholders looking to create value-based care contracts.
Covera Health raises $8.5M for analytics-based programs to reduce misdiagnoses
The New York City-based company is currently focused on bringing its approach to the radiology field.
Medicare rewards hundreds of lower-cost hospitals despite poor quality
The 231 hospitals the study identified had below average scores on quality measures but were awarded the bonuses because caring for their patients during their stays and in the 30 days following their discharge cost Medicare less than what it cost at half of hospitals evaluated in the program.