Health Literacy Extends Beyond Reading
Health-literate healthcare organizations are healthcare organizations that make it easier for people to navigate, understand and use information and services to take care of their health.
Health-literate healthcare organizations are healthcare organizations that make it easier for people to navigate, understand and use information and services to take care of their health.
An increasing number of the Medicare population are taking prescription medications and seeing multiple providers, which makes medication safety essential to improving care coordination and the health of patients and Medicare beneficiaries.
Qsource is improving medication safety and coordination of care by preventing adverse drug events (ADEs), increasing patient engagement and reducing harm.
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There are many ways to keep in touch with the work Qsource is doing in Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee.
Qsource states are change agents focused on three healthcare quality improvement aims: better patient care, better population health and lower health care costs through improvement.
Qsource works with healthcare patients and providers in five states to advance quality improvement goals established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. These are the top 10 most downloaded resources on www.atomAlliance.org in 2015.
Someone’s looking out for you. The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) is dedicated to patient safety. Their vision is to create a world where patients are free from harm by partnering with patients and families, the healthcare community and others.
Each year in the United States, at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die as a direct result of these infections.
The Home Health Quality Improvement (HHQI) campaign uses each home health agency’s Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) data to generate customized data reports on a variety of high-priority topics each month
Despite the increasing national focus on integrated care, there is no single, widely recognized set of competencies on this service approach for either the behavioral health or primary care workforce.