{"title":"Medicare finds that paying bonuses can improve performance.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Offering to pay bonuses to higher-performing hospitals has increased quality across the board, according to data from the first year of a Medicare demonstration project.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 12","pages":"139-40, 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25834632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stroke center multi-pronged approach yields large decrease in mortality.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using a unique three-pronged strategy for improving stroke care, Swedish Medical Center has decreased mortality in stroke patients by 24%.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 12","pages":"138-9, 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25834631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creative measures increase effective capacity in the emergency department.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Shady Grove Adventist Hospital has produced dramatic improvements in community access to care in its emergency department.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 12","pages":"135-6, 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25834629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ICU improvement project cuts central line infections 50%.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intensive care units in Michigan hospitals used to have an average rate of central line infections. But following a two-year project to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety, Michigan's ICUs have reduced central i.v. line infections by nearly 50%.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 12","pages":"137-8, 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25834630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taconic network brings EMRs to upstate New York practices.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For several years now the Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC) has been a national model for how physician practices, hospitals, reference labs, pharmacies, health insurers and employers can work together to share health information. THINC is now embarking on its most ambitious project to date--providing EMR system training, implementation and support to hundreds of physicians for as little as dollar 500 per provider per month.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 12","pages":"142-3, 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25834634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Michigan health plan develops new model of diabetes care.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Michigan health plan develops new model of diabetes care. When a physician sees a diabetes patient at one of the centers run by Grand Valley Health Plan, it may not be a one-on-one meeting. Behavioral health counselors and nutritionists are sometimes also in the room. It's important for other health care practitioners to be involved because they can offer advice from another perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 11","pages":"124-6, 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25759032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating voice recognition and EMR cuts transcription time, costs.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A relatively inexpensive speech recognition system integrated with an electronic medical records (EMR) system is saving time and costs at Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo, MI.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 11","pages":"130-2, 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25758354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EMR has key role in screening program to reduce MRSA infection.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Electronic medical records (EMRs) are playing an important role in a new system-wide admission screening program at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare that is designed to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 11","pages":"129-30, 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25759036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical advisor helps PA hospital make improvements.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A few years ago, only 40% of the patients at St. Luke's Hospital and Health Network in Bethlehem, PA, who were having an ST-elevation myocardial infarction received angioplasty within 120 minutes. Today, 100% of the patients are getting to the cath lab within the two-hour timeframe.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"9 11","pages":"123-4, 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25759031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}