Provider Tools & Tips
Top Five Most Downloaded Healthcare Quality Improvement Resources of 2015
atom Alliance states are change agents focused on three healthcare quality improvement aims: better patient care, better population health and lower health care costs through improvement.Read More »
Top 5 Most Downloaded Quality Reporting and Health IT Tools in 2015
atom Alliance helps providers successfully report to the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS), understand reporting requirements and get the most from their electronic health records (EHRs).Read More »
Top 5 Most Downloaded Resources for Hospital Readmissions in 2015
atom Alliance is bringing together state-wide communities to create powerful collaborations of change that promote seamless coordination of care for older adults. The goal is reduce 30-day hospital readmissions, admissions and adverse …Read More »
Top 5 Most Downloaded Tools for Nursing Homes in 2015
Nursing homes across the five atom Alliance states—Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee—are working diligently to improve resident care. Here are the top five nursing home quality improvement resources downloaded from atom …Read More »
Top 10 Most Downloaded atom Alliance Resources of 2015
atom Alliance 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 …Read More »
Get Smart About Antibiotics!
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 …Read More »
Deadline Extended for 2016 Value Modifier Informal Review
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extended the 2016 Value Modifier informal review deadline to Nov. 23, 2015.Read More »
Understand the New Meaningful Use Final Rule
Meaningful Use (MU) sets specific objectives that eligible professionals (EPs) and hospitals must achieve to qualify for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Incentive Programs.Read More »
What Providers Need to Know About PQRS Now
A video presentation from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Learning Network (MLN) provides an overview of the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS).Read More »
Change Package Strategy 5: Be a Continuous Learning Organization
A continuous learning organization knows where it stands, knows when and how to change, uses data to drive performance and views the organization as an interdependent system.Read More »
Improving Care Coordination for Mental and Behavioral Health
For those living with mental health issues, such as depression, and/or behavioral health issues, such as alcohol misuse, the transition time between care settings warrants special care.Read More »
Advancing Excellence Offers Workshops to Disrupt Infections
Advancing Excellence is offering Disrupt Infections: Creating a Community of Prevention workshops to explore how creating unity in the care setting can help break the web of infection in simple, practical ways.Read More »
Quality Improvement Tools to Reduce Adverse Drug Events
atom Alliance offers several quality improvement templates that can be used in your facility to reduce adverse drug events (ADEs). They are not meant to replace tools that you may already be …Read More »
Chart Compares PQRS and MU Reporting
atom Alliance has developed a comparison chart showing the overlap between Meaningful Use (MU) Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) and the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS).Read More »
Provider Template for Hypertension Protocol
It’s critical for all providers to follow the same protocol when caring for patients. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has supplied a template to help your practice to develop …Read More »
Identifying Barriers to Adult Vaccinations
Vaccines are widely recognized as safe, clinically effective, cost-effective and an integral part of public health policy in the United States. However, vaccination rates are below targeted levels, particularly for vaccines recommended …Read More »
Coaches Keep TeamSTEPPS on Track
After a facility conducts TeamSTEPPS training, internal coaches become change agents to help promote and sustain the continuous work and model the new behaviors and change.Read More »
Upcoming Webcast: Overview of the 2014 Annual Quality and Resource Use Reports
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is hosting a webcast to provide an overview of the 2014 Annual QRUR and explain how to interpret and use the information in the …Read More »
Managing Change Using TeamSTEPPS
Pursuit of the goal for the safest and highest quality healthcare requires optimization of a complex and integrated delivery system that includes people and processes.Read More »
TeamSTEPPS: Putting It All Together
The tools and strategies presented in The Long-Term Care Version of TeamSTEPPS correspond to individual teamwork skillsRead More »