Health Care Quality – Page 32 – Healthy Skeptic

Dec 18 2010

2010 Potpourri XLIV

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Another week, another Potpourri, this one detailing items including high deductible insurance and delay of care; another study looking at HDHP and well-child care; a quality comparison of Medicare Advantage…

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Dec 17 2010

Wall Street Journal

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If you’re a Medicare beneficiary, a new study finds the odds of either ending up dead or back in the hospital within a year are 62%.

Dec 08 2010

Abandoned Prescriptions

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Prescriptions written by doctors and transmitted to pharmacies are not always picked up by patients. New research examines the factors that appear to be linked to, if not causative of,…

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Nov 23 2010

informationweek.com

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Dramatic change is coming to healthcare–to patient treatment, providers’ business models, and the government’s role in regulation and reimbursement – these changes all depend on the intelligent use of data

Nov 22 2010

Star Tribune

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The first state-mandated report on quality of medical care in Minnesota shows that clinics and hospitals vary dramatically in how well they treat patients — even on something as basic as children’s colds.

Nov 18 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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One in seven Medicare beneficiaries suffers an adverse event during a hospital stay, and those events, nearly half of them preventable, contributed to at least 15,000 deaths in a single month

Nov 16 2010

New York Times

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One of every seven Medicare beneficiaries who is hospitalized is harmed as a result of problems with the medical care there, according to a new study from the Office of Inspector General

Nov 16 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Under laws that are the nation’s toughest, California on Friday announced 14 penalties totaling $575,000 against 12 hospitals where caregivers put patients in “immediate jeopardy” of harm

Nov 11 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), said the focus of the regulation on providing ubiquitous healthcare access has “crowded out cost containment and quality.”

Nov 11 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Significant variation in the way hospitals measure and report acquired bloodstream infections points to problems with payment incentives and databases that compare institutions

Nov 05 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Nearly four million hospital admissions in 2008, roughly one in 10, could have been avoided if acute conditions or chronic diseases that provoked hospitalization were prevented or better managed

Nov 05 2010

AHRQ

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AHRQ: Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations for Acute and Chronic Conditions, 2008

Nov 03 2010

Hospital Review

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is looking for quality measures to use for a “Physician Compare” website it will launch by Jan. 1, 2011

Nov 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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A member of the support staff for the United States Preventive Services Task Force has quit over the cancellation of a meeting scheduled for today and tomorrow

Oct 29 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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CMS has been charged by the Affordable Care Act to create PhysicianCompare.hhs.gov by January 1—only 64 days away—and make it even better than HospitalCompare.hhs.gov

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