Healthcare organizations should disclose medical mistakes that affect multiple patients even if patients were not harmed by the event, according to an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded research paper published in the Sept. 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has launched a non-profit, wholly owned subsidiary organization, called the Global Health Informatics Partnership, to serve as an international center for collaborative initiatives on healthcare informatics.
On average, hospital stays for patients with healthcare-acquired infections were 19.2 days longer and the cost was nearly $43,000 greater than stays without infections, according to a statistical brief released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Practice-based population health (PBPH) may become a more widely viable option for primary care providers, according to a report released last month by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
In 2008, nearly one in five hospitalizations were diabetes-related, totaling more than 7.7 million stays and $83 billion in hospitalization costs--or 23 percent of total hospital costs in the U.S., according to a statistical brief released this month from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) annual release of state-by-state health quality data has been expanded to include new data on health insurance. The additional data are intended to provide information on healthcare quality categorized by source of payment, including private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and those without insurance.
Patients who have previously refused colorectal cancer screening are willing to undergo CT colonography (CTC), or virtual colonoscopy, but are not willing to pay for the exam themselves when not covered by insurance, according to a study in the August issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is requesting input on approaches to developing a comparative effectiveness research (CER) inventory that captures ongoing CER efforts in the U.S.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has published two new guides to help hospital administrators make decisions concerning staff and patient safety when a natural or manmade disaster or other catastrophic event occurs.
Written by C.P. Kaiser
Ten years ago, it was nearly impossible to go through the day without seeing an advertisement for whole-body CT screening. Today it’s a different story. The radiation dose exposure from CT scanning has come under intense scrutiny and the value of CT screening must be proved in rigorous trials before many payors, especially Medicare, will consider reimbursing for an exam.
The Department of Health & Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is distributing demonstration and planning grants totaling $25 million to support efforts by states and health systems to implement and evaluate patient safety approaches and medical liability reforms.
EMR vendors may say they're committed to developing and providing usable EMR products, but best practices and standards of design, testing and usability monitoring of EMRs are not readily available, according to a report funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is more successful than traditional radiation therapy in avoiding "dry mouth" when treating head and neck cancers, but it is unknown whether the treatment is better or worse at reducing the size of tumors, based on a comparative-effectiveness review funded by the Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has formed a new Health IT Advisory Committee (HITAC). Members of the new advisory committee represent a wide range of healthcare stakeholders, including consumers, providers, clinicians, purchasers, suppliers, and public and community healthcare organizations.
Using bar-code technology with an electronic medication administration record (eMAR) substantially reduces transcription and medication administration errors and potential drug-related adverse events, according to a study published in the May 6 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
More research is needed but the EHR will likely be a foundational element of the medical home, according to an article in the April edition of HealthAffairs.
"Collaboration between academic institutions and the technology industry could lead to significant advances in consumer health IT, but too many factors prevent the two types of entities from working together.” according to a March report on managing personal health information by the Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality (AHRQ),
Clinical decision support (CDS) systems can be successfully developed and implemented, and the knowledge base can be shared across clinical sites and EMR systems, according to a recent Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) report.
A web site launched by the Illinois Department of Public Health in November 2009 aims to provide better transparency to state residence by making public healthcare data including infectious disease rates, mortality and patient safety, as well as quality and process of care measures.
SNM (formerly the Society of Nuclear Medicine) has been awarded a $48,000 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to hold a conference to develop research on the comparative effectiveness of PET and other molecular imaging techniques.
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