Solving the Hospital Readmissions Problem
One of the most interesting things I wrote about thanks to the HIMSS conference was what I called the real cause of hospital readmissions. I’m still interested in working with more hospitals to verify the data that’s presented in that blog post, but I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t play out as an important finding when it comes to reducing hospital readmissions.
In the post, I probably was a little aggressive in my statements about how the hospital can reduce readmissions through their own actions versus depending on home health, primary care doctors, or post-acute care providers. The good news is ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 6, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare HealthCare IT HIMSS HIMSS14 Hospital Readmissions Nuclei Health Consultancy Reducing Hospital Readmissions Richard D. Tomlinson Source Type: blogs
EMA Journal December 2013
This report, from the Emergency Care Improvement & Innovation Clinical Network, describes a project that used a multimodal approach, grounded in quality and safety theory, to improve consistency in clinical practice, minimise risks and strengthen clinical governance arrangements for paediatric sedation across a number of Victorian EDs. Key activities addressed clinical governance, risk assessment and procedure documentation, training and credentialing of clinicians, and clinical audit of key quality and safety measures. This multi-modal implementation strategy supported by an evidence-based programme and resources ena...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 23, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Education eLearning EMA Emergency Medicine Featured Journal burden of GP patients Burnout chest pain EMA Journal emergency medicine australasia NOACs oral anticoagulants paediatric procedural sedation Saline therapy Source Type: blogs
Midwifery supervision and regulation: recommendations for change
This report follows the completion of three investigations into complaints from three families, all of which related to local midwifery supervision and regulation. It finds that the midwifery supervision and regulatory arrangements at the local level failed to identify poor midwifery practice at Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust. It concludes that the current arrangements do not always allow information about poor care to be escalated effectively into hospital clinical governance or the regulatory system.
Report
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 11, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Read Code 'cross-maps' consultation
This consultation aims to gain a deeper understanding of the level
and nature of the use of cross-maps which enable hospitals to satisfy
mandatory data collections and submissions, such as the Admitted Patient
Care Commissioning Data Set and Hospital Episode Statistics. They also
support secondary use cases such as epidemiology, clinical governance,
commissioning and Payment by Results. The HSCIC is particularly keen to
hear from Clinical Commissioning Groups and GPs as less is known about
how these groups use cross-maps. Responses are invited until the 9th
September 2013.
Online response form
Consultation docume...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 3, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: Consultations New technologies Source Type: blogs
