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An AHA issue paper on Medicare & Medicaid Recovery Audit Contractors \(RACs\).
In 2011, eighteen allied hospital associations submitted their success stories in performance improvement for the American Hospital Association's inaugural Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership. Many of their improvement initiatives share common strategic…
As America's hospitals and health systems are transforming care, hospitals are facing challenges and opportunities to improve care. The AHA has been pleased to support efforts through the expanding HPOE initiative.
The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.
Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharmacists to dispense. However, the set of computer-interpretable identifiers currently used in electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) does not support the specific needs of the prescribers and pharmacists…
Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and preventable adverse event that should never happen. Although reporting is not mandatory in most states, some estimates put the national incidence rate, which includes wrong patient, wrong procedure, wrong site…