QIO News Posts
CDC Report: Many Are Not Taking Prescribed Cholesterol-Lowering Medications
More than a third of American adults are eligible to take cholesterol-lowering medications under the current guidelines or were already taking them – but nearly half of them are not, according to a report by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers...
CMS Releases Report Announcing Successful Efforts to Reduce Harm and Spending in America’s Hospitals
It was an encouraging week for all American healthcare consumers, as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report demonstrating nearly $20 billion in health care cost savings and 2.1 million fewer hospital-acquired conditions, and over 2,000...
Increasing the Voice of the Patient: Seeking Partners
"Patient engagement is the blockbuster drug of the century." - Dr. Farzad Mostashari, former head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, from Patient Engagement: Medicine's New "Blockbuster Drug" Great Plains Quality Innovation...
Celebrating Caregivers…Today and Everyday!
There are four kinds of people in the world: Those who have been caregivers; Those who currently are caregivers; Those who will be caregivers; Those who will need a caregiver. - Rosalynn Carter (Former First Lady) There are more than 65 million Americans...
CMS Awards Partnership Driven Special Innovation Projects
CMS Awards 16 Partnership-Driven Special Innovation Projects to Close the Gap between Best Practice & Common Practice Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it has taken another step toward ensuring that beneficiaries...
Preserve the Power of Antibiotics!
November 16-22 is National Get Smart About Antibiotics Week Antibiotic-resistant bacteria causes more than 2 million illnesses and at least 23,000 deaths each year in the United States. Antibiotic resistance occurs when germs no longer respond to the drugs designed to...
November is National Diabetes Awareness Month
Diabetes Education and Support: What's Your Role? National Diabetes Month is observed every November to draw attention to diabetes and its effects on millions of Americans. The National Diabetes Education Program’s (NDEP) 2015 theme Diabetes Education...
World Stroke Day, October 29 – Raising Awareness and What Can be Done to Combat It
What Can We Do to Show Support? Stroke is a non-communicable disease that attacks millions of people worldwide every year. The World Stroke campaign aims to encourage people to understand stroke risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and high blood...
AHRQ Study: Electronic Prescribing Linked to Fewer Adverse Drug Events Among Diabetics
Physicians who primarily issue prescriptions electronically have lower rates of Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) among their patients with diabetes, according to an AHRQ study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. National estimates suggest that...
Community Involvement is One of Four Keys to Meaningful Preventive Care
Fierce Healthcare recently reported that community involvement and targeting high-risk patients are essential to implementing meaningful preventive care. According to the article, there are several other strategies to improving preventive care in hospitals, which...