In 2015 hospitals were given the option of submitting their eCQM data to meet ORYX requirements. The Joint Commission has analyzed and released the data sent by the 34 hospitals that participated....

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) published an online toolkit this May that teaches how to talk with patients when a medical error occurs. ...

The Joint Commission and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are working on a new initiative to improve infection control in ambulatory care settings....

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Many hospitals have focused on improving their culture of safety through a patient safety culture survey provided to staff members. But according to new research from the University of Michigan, the r...

The time and effort spent on reporting quality measure data has been a major drain on healthcare practices across America. Medicaid in particular has reported that an increasing number of providers ha...

It’s been eight months since The Joint Commission’s new eating disorder standards for Behavioral Healthcare Accreditation went into effect. This week, the accreditor released a new R3 Repo...

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 ...

Over the next couple of months, several Joint Commission programs, standards, and updates will go into effect. Here is a brief overview of some of the bigger changes and the months they’ll go ...

At the beginning of the 2017 fiscal year in October, CMS will add new criteria to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program that’s expected to save CMS $538 million; $108 million over the prev...