Medication reconciliation between care settings is an important source of errors and potential danger for seniors.
And by that recommendation, I assume you would also recommend that patient navigation be a reimbursable expense.
This is not pie in the sky stuff. This is real-life steps that can be taken, can achieve results, and I think it's a ver...
Thank you, Senator Blumenthal, for the opportunity to appear today to discuss CMS' efforts to improve patient safety in ...
There is the need in part because though we complain in the medical profession and in the health care industry a lot abo...
Patient safety certified. That would be a great qualification to spread more generally among health care providers and i...
Would you support our attempt to change the Connecticut law from 1.9 to 2.3 in 2013, and 2.3 to 2.7 in 2014 in the next ...
Thank you, and thank you for your testimony today.
Quite honestly, those numbers of reductions in urinary tract infections and pneumonia and other accomplishments, measure...
Will there be funding for nursing homes to put electronic health records?
In the 2013 legislative session, we will be asking the Connecticut legislature to raise the maximum fine to $10,000.
I haven't heard a more thoughtful or insightful panel, and I'm very, very proud that it happened here in Connecticut.
It requires some of these necessary changes and considerations to be done through regulation.
And it saved money.
And the team's report then goes to someone at CMS, or----
It is so critically important not only for saving dollars, which will be a priority going forward as the Affordable Care...
The ultimate form of identification would be some kind of national patient identifier...
If there are problems indicated at a particular nursing home, do you accelerate the re-review or the re-survey, the visi...
