A quality measurement that focuses on patient symptoms and overall quality of life is poised to take on a greater role in patient safety. In some parts of the country, it already has. Patient repor...

Historically, insurers and healthcare providers haven't had the most harmonious relationship. Competing business interests typically left representatives from each industry on opposite sides of the...

In 2012, a fungal meningitis outbreak was linked to the New England Compounding Center (NECC) in Framingham, Massachusetts, that would eventually lead to more than 750 infections in 20 states and 6...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) sent a report on October 13 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) urging for better alignment of healthcare quality measures. The conclusion o...

Six Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP) grantees have been given $13.4 million to test new pediatric quality measures over the next four years....

There was once a time when physicians played an authoritarian role. It was thought that the best medical outcomes were achieved when patients were left almost entirely in the dark, submitting to th...

Editor’s note: Beginning this month, Briefings on Accreditation and Quality (BOAQ) is publishing its articles on a weekly basis. Each week in Accreditation Insider, a new article from that month...

Presented on: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 1:00–2:30 p.m. Eastern Presented by: Molly Clark, PharmD, MHA Megan Maddox, PharmD, BCPS, CDE Level of Program: Intermediate Medication reconciliation ...

In a newly published analysis, the ECRI Institute reviewed 7,600 wrong-patient events in 181 hospitals. Roughly 9% of those errors resulted in a patient being hurt or dying, despite the fact that most...