A new study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that 17- to 24-item surgical safety checklists (SSC) both reduce patient stays and lower mortality rates....

Poor communication in healthcare has tangible, measurable effects. A new study released by CRICO Strategies found that communications failures were a factor in 30% of malpractice cases between 2009 to...

How do you help patients who want to harm themselves? The Joint Commission addressed this question in February with Sentinel Event Alert 56, which focuses on finding the root causes of patient suici...

The CMS is seeking public comments on a new proposed rule on emergency preparedness....

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The Joint Commission extended the mandatory reporting of the Perinatal Care performance measure set from 1,100 births per year to a minimum of 300 births per year....

Last month, we looked at what the international community could do in the face of the current Ebola outbreak and addressed many fears and concerns in the healthcare community about what the outbreak...

Table of Contents Building a better narrative p. 5 How do you use healthcare professionals’ natural storytelling abilities to build a better medical record? Find out how one organization did so...

More than 500 healthcare practices are taking part in a CMS pilot program aimed at preventing heart attacks and strokes by using predictive modeling....

Ten critical access hospitals (CAH) have agreed to take part in CMS’ Frontier Community Health Integration Project (FCHIP) Demonstration this August, with the goal of improving care quality and ...