A Framework for Safe, Reliable, and Effective Care

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The Framework for Safe, Reliable, and Effective Care provides clarity and direction to health care organizations on the key strategic, clinical, and operational components involved in achieving safe and reliable operational excellence — a “system of safety,” not just a collection of stand-alone safety improvement projects.

UV Case Study:
Excela Health

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In the fight against healthcare-acquired infections, today’s healthcare facilities face many challenges, from coordinating infection control activities as patients travel within and between facilities and ensuring compliance with cleaning protocols, to confronting threats posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria and emerging pathogens. To help meet these challenges and more, healthcare leaders are increasingly looking to automated, whole-room disinfection systems as an added measure to help ensure the safest possible environment of care.

When it Comes to Improving the Patient Experience, a Healthcare-Specific CMMS is Just What the Doctor Ordered

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The practice of conducting rounds throughout a healthcare facility has existed for as long as hospitals themselves. Some of the most important rounds conducted are those done by hospital administrators and facility managers. Addressing the need to “check in” on facilities is a crucial part of running a successful healthcare operation.

The Value of Laboratory Expertise and Data Insights for Health Plans

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Discover tangible tools to improve plan performance

Performing more than 7 billion tests a year, clinical laboratories collect volumes of data that can inform health plans’ decision-making.

By 2018, CMS will have 50 percent of all payments in alternative payment models.

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Provider organization leaders are quickly learning that maximizing performance requires a sophisticated understanding of their clinical and financial risk and opportunities to improve care and financial outcomes for their organization. Leaders must also have the ability to execute against both; however, a favorable outcome is not a foregone conclusion.

In this free topic spotlight, we will help you identify the strategies and steps healthcare providers can employ to operationalize and optimize analytics within their organization to improve clinical and financial outcomes under value-based business models.

6 Ways to Bolster the Benefits of Your EHR by Improving Communications in Your Hospital

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Electronic health records (EHRs) have proliferated across the U.S. over the past decade. While EHRs have enabled caregivers to make well-informed treatment decisions more quickly and more safely, they do not solve the challenges of one critical area of care: clinical communication and collaboration. This eBrief explores six reasons why healthcare organizations need a complementary system to the EHR that enables messaging and collaboration among all members of the care team to support the real-world communication needs of physicians, nurses, and the organization overall.