One study by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) found that 14% of physicians have experienced a...Read More »
A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that between 2003 and 2012, the number of hospitals hiring physicians jumped up by...Read More »
The Mayo Clinic experienced a highly publicized case of drug diversion back in 2008, where a nurse was caught stealing fentanyl from patients...Read More »
John Hopkins researchers looked at three years and 4,500 acute-care facilities worth of readmission and mortality data, finding that hospitals...Read More »
Several months after more than 60 medical experts and advocacy groups called on CMS to remove the pain treatment questions from patient surveys...Read More »
The Hospitals & Health Network recently published an article on the issue of polypharmacy, which occurs when a patient is given redundant or...Read More »
In 2015 hospitals were given the option of submitting their eCQM data to meet ORYX requirements. The Joint Commission has analyzed and released...Read More »
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) published an online toolkit this May that teaches how to talk with patients when a medical...Read More »
At the beginning of the 2017 fiscal year in October, CMS will add new criteria to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program that’s expected to...Read More »