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Joint Commission, HHS Stress Importance of Healthcare CommunicationThe Joint Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services last week released a 30-minute series of videos titled Improving Patient Provider Communication. The videos, designed for organizations and healthcare providers, spell out what is required by The Joint Commission and by federal law in terms of effective communication and language access, and how the intent of the law can be met. [ Read More]
Quality Forum Releases Health IT Data FrameworkThe National Quality Forum has released the Quality Data Set, a common technological framework to assist in defining clinical data used in measuring performance and evaluating improvement in patients' quality of care. The QDS framework will provide a standardized set of data that should be captured in patients' electronic health records and is applicable to all care settings a patient is likely to use in his or her lifetime. [ Read More]
Happy Thanksgiving!
From all of us at HealthLeaders Media, have a happy and safe Thanksgiving holiday. QualityLeaders will not publish next week, but will be back December 3.
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Carving Out a New CEO Model
| Responding to heightened scrutiny and reimbursement cuts, healthcare CEOs are becoming increasingly interactive with a growing list of constituents. [Read More] |
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Don't Count on Colonoscopies
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New procedural developments and a shifting market are changing how physicians and hospitals work together to deliver digestive health services. [Read More] |
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Leaders Forum
Utilizing Clinical Integration to Foster Successful Hospital Operations Improvement: Don't use impending healthcare reform and the uncertainties surrounding it as an excuse not to enact necessary clinical integration strategies that will improve operations regardless of how legislative healthcare reform eventually plays out. While considerable uncertainty still exists surrounding the details of healthcare reform, certain consequences of reform are so likely that hospitals need to address them. [Read More]
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Audio Feature
Eileen Dohmann, RN, VP of nursing for Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, VA, explains the difference between responsibility and accountability, and offers strategies for getting staff to make and keep commitments. [Listen Now]
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