A medical center with long emergency department wait times is running a pilot study to test whether telemedicine can connect doctors to the virtual bedside of waiting patients much faster. Click the...

The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things…and so today’s tusk (excuse me, task) is to find out where all you good folks out there in radio land are relative to developi...

If a member of the voluntary medical staff is exposed to a communicable disease while caring for a patient at your facility, do you have any responsibility and what is it? ...

Q: Do you have any tips of how to manage and display risk assessment data?...

Hospitals and health systems are getting squeezed at both ends of the revenue spectrum. To survive they must effectively integrate a number of healthcare services and add value. But how? Click the lin...

The Joint Commission has released a fact sheet about its behavioral healthcare accreditation program. Click the link above for more information on the requirements and benefits of accreditation, and...

Time for a little update from the field during survey year 2013. If there’s one topic (or topical set, if you will) that’s causing much angst in the survey world, it’s the focus be...

True or False: Hospitals must have a defined, written procedure for properly handling a utility failure....

Hello, AHAP members. I wanted to let you know that we have set up a time for our next AHAP networking call and we’d love to invite everyone to attend. The call will take place June 19th at 3 P...

According to a recent study by American International Group (AIG), an international insurance company, the largest barrier to patient safety is lack of teamwork, negative culture, and poor communica...