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Tag: Quality

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Top 6 reasons to attend the 2023 3M Client Experience Summit

April 4, 2023

Each year 3M brings together some of the brightest minds in health care, clinical documentation and health information management at our annual 3M CES. It’s the place for leaders to […]

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Best practices for reviewing hospital-acquired conditions

Feb. 20, 2023 / By James Sewell

Hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) are adverse events that occur during a hospital stay that may have been avoided through appropriate care and follow up. Identifying and reducing HACs is an important […]

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Close care documentation gaps — Expert tips for better quality reporting

Feb. 8, 2023 / By Jason Burke, Julie Salomon, BSN, RN

Health care has long been focused on delivering quality clinical care that results in positive patient outcomes. Unfortunately, clinical excellence is not always accurately captured in quality ratings and rankings […]

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Three questions with Garri Garrison: Health care villains and heroes

March 7, 2022 / By Garri Garrison, Kelli Christman

I sat down with the 3M Health Information Systems Division President Garri Garrison to talk about our unique history and how it’s informing the future of health care. 3M HIS […]

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Consumer-focused policies to improve health care delivery and payment

Nov. 22, 2021 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD

A neighbor of mine is undergoing her third round of chemotherapy this week. As we head into the end of the year, she was relieved that she had already passed […]

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A key solution to health care costs and quality is staring us in the face

Sept. 15, 2021 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD

How can we reduce health care cost trends while improving access and quality? The answer is staring us in the face. Maybe we need a new app that tracks every […]

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The continuing critical importance of reducing potentially preventable readmissions

Aug. 27, 2021 / By Gerald Tracy

This year, much attention is appropriately being focused on improving health equity—both in access and quality of care provided. True equity in care means that we should not see wide […]

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The way we pay for health care in the U.S. is irrational

July 7, 2021 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD

As early as 1992, JAMA published a randomized control trial (gold standard for studies of impact) of telephone care. Patients liked it, doctors liked it, outcomes improved and costs went […]

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Patients benefit when we help physicians fill knowledge gaps

May 3, 2021 / By Adam Rothschild, MD

More so than health care providers in other specialties, primary care physicians (PCPs) are especially attuned to both quality and cost of care. Although our ordering decisions are evaluated for […]

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Payment and quality reform for mental health and substance abuse care: The time is now (part 2)

April 21, 2021 / By Dawn Weimar, RN

In my last blog, I discussed mental health and substance abuse (MHSA) payment and quality in the midst of parity initiatives, team-based care and value-based payment. Certainly, adherence to fee-for-service […]

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Payment and quality reform for mental health and substance abuse care: The time is now

April 19, 2021 / By Dawn Weimar, RN

We have heard the adage: “The definition of insanity is repeating the same mistakes but expecting a different result.”  This adage can be applied to the state of mental health and […]

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Look beyond pricing to understand health care value

March 26, 2021 / By Megan Carr

As a mom of four growing (and constantly eating) boys, I’m always trying to find ways to manage our grocery bill.  Occasionally, I try the generic brands to see if […]