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Engaging Physicians in Quality Improvement: Strategies for Driving Practice Change

EvidenceCare

When clinicians see how their order sets, imaging choices and length of stay decisions compare with best-practice thresholds, unwarranted variation narrows and patient outcomes rise. Within weeks of surfacing such insights, ordering rates can fall to match best-practice targets, reducing unnecessary interventions and costs.

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RAG in Healthcare: Your Complete Guide to Its Implementation

Arkenea

However, success requires careful planning, expert guidance, and commitment to best practices. Immediate Action Items Conduct a RAG Readiness Assessment : Evaluate your organization’s data infrastructure, technical capabilities, and staff readiness for RAG implementation.

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Preparing for CERT Audits and Practicing Compliant Documentation

EvidenceCare

A compliance measure calculates the percentage of patients discharged in the appropriate inpatient or observation bed status—a determinant that can result in major financial repercussions if misclassified. The goal for the compliance measure is to have over 95% of discharges compliant.

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Why Financial Incentives Oppose Quality Improvement Projects in Healthcare

The Healthcare Blog

Notably, some of the providers involved in the collaborative have said that their hospitals don’t like that they’ve been decreasing emergency department visits and hospitalizations because it hurts the hospital’s finances. Clearly, from a hospital standpoint, this is in Category 3 (opposed by financial incentives).

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Vanderbilt Nursing Professor Receives $3.6M to Study Telemedicine and Post-intensive Care Syndrome Recovery

Minority Nurse

million over five years to examine, with her collaborators, the efficacy of telemedicine services among people recovering from post-intensive care syndrome. Following ICU discharge, patients have problems lasting months to years that often go unaddressed,” Boehm says.

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SDOH Data: Use Cases, Maintaining Privacy, and Health Data Ecosystems

Ciox

Example: SOURCE Collaborative explores non-healthcare factors that may impact blindness from diabetes By using SDOH to enrich clinical research , SOURCE found that lower levels of affluence in a patient’s residential community was associated with progression to blindness.

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Reducing Maternal Mortality: Will the ‘Birthing-Friendly’ Hospital Designation Help?

Relias

We must improve care in this area of maternal health by strengthening screening, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and ongoing care using recommended screening tools and evidence-based best practices, as well as developing innovative culturally appropriate community-based programs. Collaborative care models can save lives.