Integrated Quality Measures Improve Patient Safety & Care

Integrated Quality Measures Improve Patient Safety & Care

In 2008, the Piedmont Clinic welcomed a new CEO who has led the clinic leadership in its development and adoption of a clinical integration model that blends clinical and financial integration. As part of this process much discussion revolved around the best way to track and use data to create integration.

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Health IT & Quality

Health IT & Quality

Show Me the Money

The most important lesson in medical care comes from a bank robber who stole more than $2 million and spent more than half his life in jail. Named for Willie Sutton, one of the most prolific bank robbers in history, Sutton’s law grew out of a famous response to a reporter’s question attributed (perhaps falsely) to Sutton.

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Study Confirms Passive Safety Devices Are Most Effective in Needlestick Injury Prevention

A landmark study of 22 million safety devices used in 61 French hospitals over a two-year period has confirmed the theory that passive, fully automatic safety devices offer significantly better protection against accidental needlestick injuries (NSIs) than early generation active safety technologies such as semi-automatic (push-button) devices or those with manually sliding shields or hinged caps.

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Adventist Health System Partners with Language Line Services to Bolster Language Access for Limited English Speaking Patients

Adventist Health System, the largest not-for-profit Protestant healthcare provider in the nation, has partnered with Language Line Services to offer its 43 hospitals and numerous clinics access to a comprehensive suite of interpreting and translation services in an effort to better serve its limited English proficient patients and families.

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