It’s the second year for CMS’s value-based payment modifier (VBM) program, a part of the Affordable Care Act using Medicare reimbursements to encourage high-quality and cost-effective care...

More than 60 medical experts and nonprofit organizations signed petitions last week, asking The Joint Commission and CMS for changes in their respective pain management policies. The two petitions, sp...

Seattle Children’s Hospital is alerting 12,000 families after it found that some surgical equipment at one of its clinics wasn’t properly sterilized....

A few emails and simple tweaks to electronic health records were shown to drop unneeded antibiotic prescriptions by 16% and 18% respectively....

How prepared are you for the Joint Commission’s new Patient Safety Systems (PSS) chapter? The most recent PSS chapter came into effect on January 2015 and the Joint Commission will expect you to...

A recent study published in The American Journal of Infection Control found that while most areas of ICU are routinely cleaned, clinical workstations are often overlooked....

A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that do-not-resuscitate (DNR) are not factored out of quality rankings for hospitals....

The final HCPro Accreditation Specialist Boot Camp of the year is coming up fast. Sign up now for your last chance to learn from instructor Jean S. Clark, RHIA, CSHA, who has more than 30 years of rea...

The Joint Commission recognized more than 1,200 hospitals in its Top Performers on Key Quality Measures program, an 11% increase from the previous year....

In a highly-anticipated move expected to significantly affect the regulatory rules that hospitals and other healthcare facilities are held to, CMS has officially adopted the 2012 edition of the Life S...