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National Healthcare Decisions Day – April 16
National Healthcare Decisions Day is April 16, 2016. Healthcare facilities, healthcare professionals, chaplains, the legal community and many others across the country will be participating to highlight the importance of making advance healthcare decisions. The...
Safer Prescribing—a trial of education, informatics and financial incentives
High-risk prescribing and preventable drug-related complications are common in primary care. In a recent study printed in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers evaluated whether the rates of high-risk prescribing by primary care clinicians and the related...
Office of Minority Health Aims to Close Disparities Gap
April is National Minority Health Month, which seeks to raise awareness of the health disparities that continue to affect racial, ethnic and geographic minorities across the country. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of Minority Health's...
Quality Improvement Organization Progress Report Released
As a valued partner in the Great Plains Quality Innovation Network’s quality improvement activities, we are pleased to share with you the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 2015 Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Program Progress Report. The...
Colorectal Cancer Updates, Resources and Opportunities to Learn
Updates from the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable 80% by 2018 Campaign CRC Lives Saved from 80% by 2018 by State Researchers estimate that achieving 80% by 2018 would prevent 277,000 new cases and 203,000 deaths from colon cancer by 2030. A paper published last...
Treating Discharge More Like Admission Process May Help Reduce Readmissions
FierceHealthcare recently reported the discharge process continues to be a major hurdle for healthcare leaders looking to reduce readmissions because many patients do not understand their discharge instructions.New strategies are being introduced to improve the...
Video Highlights the Importance of Patient and Family-Centered Care in Hospitals
A new video from AHRQ’s Health Care Innovations Exchange describes former patient Bob Luckin’s journey from patient to patient adviser at Florida’s Broward Health North Hospital in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Broward Health North is one of 11 hospitals participating in...
Mapping Medicare Disparities Tool
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) released a new interactive map to increase understanding of geographic disparities in chronic disease among Medicare beneficiaries. The Mapping Medicare Disparities (MMD) Tool...
AHRQ Releases Updated Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines health literacy as “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.” Health literacy...
CDC Releases Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
This week CDC released its guideline detailing recommendations for primary care clinicians who are prescribing opioids for chronic pain outside of active cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. The guideline addresses 1) when to initiate or continue...