Last week we provided a big-picture overview of the healthcare supply chain, from supplier to patient. This week, we will dig deeper into this...
Posts about Hospitals (3):
If you spend any time at all in the world of infection control and prevention, you've run across the NHSN, or National Healthcare Safety Network....
We've covered Candida auris in this blog before. Not only has it been one of the pathogens of concern cited by the Centers for Disease Control and...
In our last post, we explored how adopting a new product can result in some heavy lifting. Not only does product adoption require financial...
With World Cancer Day this Saturday, we dedicate this post to those patients facing a cancer diagnosis. As with any serious disease, the many types...
The medical chart is set to become a thing of the past. Those thick folders containing your medical history are steadily being replaced by electronic...
Many healthcare concerns will follow us into the new year, some we have carried for decades and some that have become more threatening thanks to the...
In our previous posts about the Case-Mix Index (CMI), we explored what it conveys and how it is calculated. Today we will discuss who looks at that...
Last week, we looked at Diagnosis-Related Groups and how they receive codes based on cost and complexity. These numbers play a key role in the...
The Case-Mix Index (CMI) has been defined in many ways. One definition might read "a relative value assigned to a diagnostic-related group." Another...
Among all tracked hospital-associated infections, the one that seems to have the lowest rates are surgical site infections. While this relative...
In 2008, the medical field presented data to the federal government in support of funding to study antimicrobial resistance in hospital-associated...