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Medical education gets a 'C' grade

October 3, 2008 — 1:42pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Medical education is behind the times, with too little focus on quality measures and too little training on information technology adoption, according to representatives from the academic medical... Read more...

AHA asks CMS to reconsider 2009 quality measures, payment rates

August 29, 2008 — 9:49am ET | By Anne Zieger
The American Hospital Association isn't too happy about the quality-reporting requirements in the new proposed outpatient prospective system rule for 2009, and it would like to see CMS make some... Read more...

VA issues 'report card' touting hospital quality

June 16, 2008 — 8:31am ET | By Anne Zieger
Lately, the VA has taken a pounding over its handling of mentally-ill soldiers, not to mention the conditions under which physically-injured veterans have been treated at its facilities. Now, the... Read more...

AHA says CMS hospital quality measures aren't ready

June 11, 2008 — 6:59am ET
As things stand, hospitals soon will have to report on 72 quality measures (up from 30) if they want to receive full Medicare reimbursement. However, most of the new quality measures proposed by CMS... Read more...

Joint Commission releases new inpatient psych measures

June 10, 2008 — 6:59am ET
The Joint Commission has released a new set of seven inpatient psychiatric measures for use with the group's Oryx performance-measurement requirements. Eventually, the data will appear on the... Read more...

$300M grant from RWJF intended to reduce health disparities

June 5, 2008 — 6:59am ET
Today the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is expected to announce a $300 million initiative designed to reduce significant regional and ethnic care disparities across the U.S.--and ultimately, if... Read more...

Consumers Union plans to rate hospitals

May 29, 2008 — 6:59am ET
The venerable organization behind the popular Consumer Reports magazine has announced that it's getting into the hospital ratings act. The publisher, Consumers Union, already offers assessments of... Read more...

CIGNA launches site offering doctor, hospital rankings

May 23, 2008 — 6:59am ET
CIGNA has launched a national website ranking doctors and hospitals by cost and quality measures, along with providing its beneficiaries with several additional tools to help them obtain care. Not... Read more...

Feds to display hospital satisfaction ratings in newspaper ads

May 21, 2008 — 6:59am ET
In an effort to put some money behind its philosophy, the federal government has budgeted about $1.9 million to put full-page ads in newspapers around the U.S. disclosing individual hospital... Read more...

Hospital collective works to reduce birth injuries

May 15, 2008 — 6:59am ET
A group of 16 hospitals has come together to create seamless processes to avoid birth injuries to infants in risky situations. Right now, about three infants of every 1,000 are injured during birth,... Read more...
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