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As the Threat of Sepsis Intensifies, Experts Push For a Faster Response
A deadly infection that has lingered throughout healthcare for the last several decades is finding a foothold at the national level thanks to recently updated definitions that offer clinicians a more targeted approach for detection and prevention.
 

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Quality and Technology: Build a Care Team
With healthcare complexity increasing daily, traditional models of delivering care fail to offer a framework capable of delivering high-quality care at a reasonable cost. The rapid expansion and evolution of medical knowledge makes it impossible for any single healthcare professional to assimilate and retain the up-to-date information necessary to properly treat patients.
In Next Evolution of Healthcare, Will Quality Remain a Focus?
Although there remain many unknowns about the impact President-elect Donald Trump will have on U.S. healthcare, one change seems certain: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) as we know it will face significant changes, if it is not repealed altogether.
Ambulatory Surgery Centers Survey Process Changes
Starting January 1, 2017, two-thirds of ambulatory surgical centers (ASC) using the Medicare-deemed option may receive adjustments to their Joint Commission survey team structure and survey length.
AHA Sends Second Appeal to Trump
Pleading that the nation's hospitals face a "substantial and unsustainable" regulatory burden, the American Hospital Association presented an eight-page list of remedies to the president-elect.
 

Featured Resource
Medication Reconciliation: Practical Strategies and Tools for Compliance
Medication reconciliation is a crucial step in preventing medical errors, and it has become an increased focus of regulators across the healthcare continuum as organizations concentrate on improving patient safety and quality of care. Medication Reconciliation: Practical Strategies and Tools for Compliance focuses on establishing a reliable medication reconciliation process for patients as they move from setting to setting.
 

  

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