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Patient Satisfaction With Hospital Stay Does Not Reflect Quality Of Surgical Care
Charlottesville :: VA :: USA | 2 months ago
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EDT Embargo expired: 4/17/2013 4:00 PM EDT Source Newsroom: --Keeping patients happy should be a priority, but not a stand-in for measuring quality Newswise Patient satisfaction is an important indicator of a hospital's service quality, but new Johns
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Technology innovation and health care quality #mHS12
San Ramon :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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This morning, we also had several presentations focused around technology innovations and health care quality. Harry Greenspun from Deloitte spoke about our perceptions around health care quality. As always, he was engaging and entertaining as he
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PCORI's Problem: Reasons Are Not Causes
Bethesda :: MD :: USA | 8 months ago
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Understanding and improving patient-provider interactions also explains how clinical evidence is produced or becomes meaningful. What makes examining these interactions essential is that knowing and doing are not the same. Consider hand hygiene,
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Control Medicare costs by asking the correct question
Nashua :: NH :: USA | 8 months ago
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Instead we should consider what could be done now to actually improve patient care quality as a means to reducing costs...Setting aside either the Democrats' approach to basically enact price controls by ratcheting down reimbursements or the
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Harmonizing The ACA With State Tort And Licensure Systems And Hospital Peer Review
Bethesda :: MD :: USA | 12 months ago
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The Supreme Court's decision affirming the constitutionality of most of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) is likely to have a profound impact on health care quality, cost and access. This decision allows the country to move
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CentraState Healthcare System Selects Cognizant for Developing ICD-10 Transition Strategy to Improve Care Quality and Increase Physician and Patient Satisfaction
Teaneck :: NJ :: USA | over 1 year ago
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CentraState Healthcare System, a leading not-for-profit community health organization, to develop a strategy for transitioning to ICD-10. As part of the engagement, Cognizant will perform a comprehensive ICD-10 assessment to determine the clinical,
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Patient complaints on the rise
Vancouver :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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B.C. patients are becoming more vocal when it comes to complaining about hospital and facility care. There were seven per cent more complaints and inquiries in 2010-11 in six health authorities than in the previous year, according to the second
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The Credible Threat Of Consumer Engagement
Bethesda :: MD :: USA | over 1 year ago
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When making health care choices, is there a relationship between what health care consumers pay and the quality of services they receive?...The survey queried 1,500 California residents whether they thought higher price was associated with better
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Study: Funding Electronic Medical Records Saves Lives
Cleveland :: OH :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Sep 4, 2011 Clinic office assistant Joan Vest searches for a patient's missing medical file at the Spanish Peaks Family Clinic on August 5, 2009 in Walsenburg, Colorado. (John Moore/Getty Images) The New England Journal of Medicine published a study
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Addressing Disparities Key to Optimal Health Care Quality
Detroit :: MI :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Newswise Over a decade ago, health care experts declared the quality of health care in the United States is too low. In the years since, hospitals, doctors and other health care professionals have worked to improve the quality of care.
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