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Pharmacists key to reducing infections, hospitalizations
Add pharmacists to the list of care givers, hospitals and consumer groups that will help the Health & Human Services' national patient safety collaboration save more than 60,000 lives and up to
HHS forms infection-fighting hospital engagement networks
Furthering its efforts to improve patient safety, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is awarding $218 million to 26 hospital organizations to reduce hospital-acquired conditions
Rehab facilities facing new quality reporting requirements
Inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) that fail to report selected quality data could see their Medicare payments reduced by at least 2 percent beginning in fiscal 2014 under a new proposed rule
New government patient safety program will need health IT
The government's new $1 billion patient safety initiative , authorized by the Affordable Care Act, has sizable implications for health IT. Half of the money in the Partnership for Patients program
