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Blog excerpt: CMS announces Physician Quality Reporting Programs Strategic Vision

December 21, 2025

Quality & Errors

When CMS shared the findings of the 2015 Physician Quality Reporting System, it also published a report on the CMS Physician Quality Reporting Programs Strategic Vision....

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Joint Commission: Procedure errors, retention of foreign body, suicide top sentinel event list

December 21, 2025

Through the third quarter of 2015, the top sentinel events reported to The Joint Commission were wrong-patient/wrong-site/wrong-procedure errors, unintended retention of a foreign body, and suicide....

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Keeping an eye on Congress in 2016; Joint Commission tracks legislation in the works

December 21, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

As CMS works to get its legislative agenda back on track, there are several key issues that The Joint Commission is tracking, including the adoption of a newer edition of the Life Safety Code® (...

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Doctors, patients, and email

December 21, 2025

Patient Safety

How much of an impact does email have on patient health? According to a new Kaiser Permanente study published in The American Journal of Managed Care, email plays quite a large role....

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How burnout can affect your healthcare organization

December 21, 2025

Quality & Errors

Burnout drains organizations of their mission and leads to costly and sometimes lethal consequences. Quint Studer, in his new book Healing Physician Burnout, defines burnout as a progressive loss of i...

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ACOs improve patient care and save $1.29 billion since 2012

December 21, 2025

Patient Safety

In 2015 alone, all 392 Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) participants and 12 Pioneer ACO Model participants saved a combined $466 million while improving care quality. ...

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New superbug shares its antibiotic resistance with other bacteria

December 21, 2025

Infection Control, Patient Safety

More cases of a dangerous strain of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) have been reported in the U.S. the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. ...

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Fighting drug-resistant disease in 2016

December 21, 2025

Patient Safety

One of healthcare’s biggest concerns has been the misuse of antibiotics and resulting rise in drug-resistant bacteria and infections....

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Joint Commission approves performance measures for advanced certification in heart failure

December 21, 2025

Quality & Errors

The Joint Commission now requires organizations to collect data for six mandatory inpatient measures to meeting performance measure requirements for its disease-specific care advanced certification in...

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Upcoming webcast examines new Joint Commission Patient Safety chapter

December 21, 2025

Patient Safety

An upcoming HCPro webcast will give attendees an in-depth look at The Joint Commission’s new Patient Safety Systems chapter....

Blog excerpt: CMS announces Physician Quality Reporting Programs Strategic Vision

Joint Commission: Procedure errors, retention of foreign body, suicide top sentinel event list

Keeping an eye on Congress in 2016; Joint Commission tracks legislation in the works

Doctors, patients, and email

How burnout can affect your healthcare organization

ACOs improve patient care and save $1.29 billion since 2012

New superbug shares its antibiotic resistance with other bacteria

Fighting drug-resistant disease in 2016

Joint Commission approves performance measures for advanced certification in heart failure

Upcoming webcast examines new Joint Commission Patient Safety chapter

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