The
Advisory Board is pleased to announce the release
of the Customized Present on Admission Risk
Assessment, available to all members without
additional fee. This Excel-based tool is designed
to calculate the potential impact of CMS’s
Hospital-Acquired Conditions POA Indicator
provision on your institution’s Medicare inpatient
revenues in fiscal year 2009.
Around-the-clock ED availability costly but
increasingly necessary
Keeping
a new ED open 24-hours a day is an expensive
proposition, particularly as volumes are ramping
up or in rural settings. However, there are
obvious downsides to running a limited-hours
operation, including negative press stemming from
limited accessibility. Facilities also are moving
to a 24-hour schedule to ensure they receive full
Medicare reimbursement. To learn more, please read
the Innovations Center study, Freestanding ED:
New Models of Urgent and Emergent Care Beyond the
Hospital.
In
a report released Wednesday, the Government
Accountability Office stated that the federal
government is not doing enough to prevent
hospital-acquired infections and called on HHS
to identify priorities among the CDC’s
recommended prevention practices and “establish
greater consistency and compatibility” in HAI
reporting.
Several
factors beyond gestational age are highly
important in determining extremely premature
newborns’ chances of survival and future
neurodevelopmental problems and should be
considered before providers administer intensive
care, according to a study published in today’s
NEJM.
Former
U.S. Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker
(R-Tenn.), Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), Bob Dole
(R-Kan.), and George Mitchell (D-Maine) on
Wednesday announced the formation of a
bipartisan group to address health care reform,
The Hill reports.
A
study published this week in the Archives of
Internal Medicine finds that shorter length
of stay was associated with a greater risk of
postdischarge mortality among patients with
pulmonary embolism, suggesting that “physicians
may inappropriately select patients with PE for
early discharge who are at increased risk of
complications.”
Researchers
are studying whether venom from Malaysian vipers
may be able to stop a stroke and prevent further
brain damage from the event, USA Today
reports.
Using
a proprietary grouping algorithm, the Outpatient
Market Estimator generates current and
forecasted outpatient volume estimates by
service line, sub-service line or procedure for
any market (defined by counties or zip
codes).
At
last month’s HIMSS national conference, the
Advisory Board’s Dr. David Katz spoke to a
standing-room-only crowd of 500 IT professionals
on how the nation’s most progressive hospitals
are using advanced analytic tools to transform
their business and clinical
performance.
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