QIO News Posts

Every year tens of thousands of adults needlessly suffer, are hospitalized and even die as a result of diseases that could be prevented by vaccines¹. While adults believe immunization is important, a recent national survey showed that most adults are not aware that...

Through implementation of their House Calls Program, Methodist Physician’s Clinic in Omaha, Nebraska set out to help patients access the right care in the right place at the right time -- whether they are at home, at an assisted living or at a Skilled Nursing Facility...

  August is National Adult Immunization Awareness Month August is right around the corner. Be sure to access the 2017 National Adult Immunization Awareness toolkit to devise a plan to promote the importance of immunizations with your staff, patients and family...

The National Adult and Influenza Immunization Summit Provider and Access Workgroup surveyed partners and compiled the top questions associated with coding and billing for adult vaccines. Review the questions and answers.  Great Plains QIN is actively working with...

On August 10, 2017, QHA will be hosting their annual Quality Forum at the Delta by Marriott in Fargo, ND, under the theme “The Power of Engagement…Linking Patients, Providers, Communities and Payers.” This one-day event will focus on how engagement of individuals at...

Technology — in the form of digital medicine — is helping patients with chronic disease to take better care of themselves. Approximately one-half of all adults suffer from one or more chronic diseases, which account for seven of 10 deaths and 86 percent of healthcare...

Gove County Medical Center Long Term Care Unit is a 37-bed Intermediate Care Facility based in Quinter, Kansas. In July 2015, the Long Term Care Facility team decided they needed to improve their long-stay Quality Measure (QM) performance. After review, the team...

At the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research in Washington, D.C., the director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)—Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, MD—shared findings from the institute's latest research priorities:...

Intestinal infection with the bacterium Clostridium difficile — widely known as C. diff — is the most frequent healthcare-linked infection in the country. C.diff infections now afflict about a half million Americans each year, causing more than 29,000 deaths and...

Over the past decade, the use of alternative therapies has become more popular to promote contentment in individuals experiencing depression, boredom and anxiety. Research supports that aromatherapy can be a safe and effective intervention to reduce agitation and...