Workforce analytics can be considered the future of human resources. It is the new way of making people-related business decisions. Just as healthcare has focused more strenuously on evidence-based care to guide clinical decision-making and algorithms, now HR functions can do the same.
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 4
Every year, CMS releases an annual financial report. Within that report, the agency provides a review of Medicare's oversight of accrediting organizations. It has become a Briefings on The Joint Commissiontradition to take a look at what CMS finds, as well as how The Joint...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 4
Editor's note: Patrick Pianezza, MHA, currently works for VEP Healthcare as the manager of patient experience, overseeing patient experience and special projects across VEP's vast networks of emergency departments. He has worked with the Studer Group and Johns Hopkins...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 3
Accreditation specialists have a new tool to use when advocating for compliance with requirements of both their organization's chosen accrediting organization as well as CMS: money.
With the advent of value-based purchasing (VBP), healthcare organizations are already...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 3
A recent communication from a meeting of numerous organizations across the country convened by the Association for Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) targets an area that has been discussed in recent months: relative humidity levels in the operating room (OR). The subject:...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 3
Leadership development is more than just a one-time manager's course that employees must undergo as part of their ascension into management. It is an ongoing, resourced, and structured educational plan that continues to grow and develop inexperienced leaders into seasoned experts. The...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 26, Issue 2
Good catch, bad outcome, and ugly truth: These were the three themes established by infection control specialist Lisa Waldowski, MS, APRN, CIC, during her recent presentation on infection prevention and control in The Joint Commission's Hospital Executive Briefings....
