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Posts about Cost-Effectiveness:
Infection Control,
Hospitals,
Consumer,
HAIs,
Patient Safety,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Costs,
Public Health,
Public Reporting
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Hospital Acquired Infections and Hospitals Acquired by Private Equity: The Dangerous Correlation
About a quarter of American hospitals are for-profit, that is, they are operated to generate profit for owners and stakeholders. A subsection of...
After you make the case for the healthcare innovation in terms of patient and facility benefits, anticipating possible risks, and demonstrating...
The first step in making a case for a healthcare innovation is collecting the data that supports it. This data includes evidence the the innovation...
Hospitals,
Product Evaluation,
HAIs,
Policy,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Costs,
Construction,
Innovations,
Career,
Evidence-Based Design
2 min read.
How To Make the Case for a Healthcare Innovation
Every successful organization, from a small grassroots group to a global corporation, has a way for ideas to percolate through the system and find...
Hospitals,
Product Evaluation,
Policy,
Interventions,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Costs,
Construction,
Innovations,
Evidence-Based Design
2 min read.
How Do Hospitals Spend Money? An Introduction
Hospital finances are a complex process, involving all the parts of a service provider, a retail business, an investment venture, and a non-profit...
Contamination Statistics,
Bedrails,
Infection Control,
Hospitals,
Germs,
HAIs,
Cleaning Protocols,
Patient Safety,
Design,
Epidemiology,
Interventions,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Public Health,
Public Reporting
3 min read.
DALYs and QALYs + HAIs: The Costly Connection
In our previous posts about DALYs and QALYs, we have defined the terms and presented how the healthcare field calculates these two measures of...
Patient Advocacy,
Product Evaluation,
Research,
Consumer,
Health & Wellness,
Epidemiology,
Policy,
Interventions,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Equity
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What are QALYs and DALYs?
How do you put an economic value on a human life? Why would you ever want to? As difficult as this quantification may be, it is a necessary practice...
Infection Control,
Hospitals,
Product Evaluation,
Consumer,
Patient Safety,
Medicare/Medicaid,
Design,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Costs,
Architecture,
Construction,
Innovations
2 min read.
How Can a Healthcare Investment Increase Market Share AND Reduce Cost of Care? Focus on Infection Prevention.
Large-scale healthcare projects, from new projects to renovations, face a challenging future. After the tedious process of securing permits and...
Polymerase Chain Reaction, or PCR, allows us to quickly identify a pathogen from a small sample. This rapid identification is a helpful change from...
Infection Control,
Product Evaluation,
Cleaning Protocols,
Antimicrobials,
Interventions,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Construction
3 min read.
Biocidal > Antimicrobial
We have often discussed the different terms used to describe products that clean the patient environment in this blog. Using the correct terms, and...
2 min read.
What's New In CMS' Final Inpatient Rule?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses a Prospective Payment System (PPS) to provide incentives for healthcare providers to be...