by James Blair | Dec 4, 2013 | Biological, Chemical / Biological, Terrorism
We have a long history of writing and consulting on CBRNE and post-Katrina All Hazards threats in the healthcare environment. We are increasingly concerned about some of the new opportunities that open up as a result of emerging technology....
by James Blair | Nov 13, 2013 | Accreditation, Analytics, Cost Control, Fraud and Abuse, Long Term Care, Quality Assessment and Improvement (QAPI)
This is the third in a series of posts concerning hospital rankings and comments on how we feel they could be more beneficial to patients while simultaneously reflecting a better view of reality. First, Do No Harm Without being overly nostalgic, we remember a time...
by James Blair | Nov 12, 2013 | Accreditation, Corruption, Cost Control, Fraud and Abuse, Nuclear, Oversight, Public Health, Quality Assessment and Improvement (QAPI)
As mentioned in an earlier post, we will delve a little more deeply into the topic of Hospital Rankings and what purpose they serve, how they are created and whether they can be trusted. We start with an introduction produced by the Healthcare Association of New York...
by James Blair | Nov 10, 2013 | Accreditation, Analytics, Corruption, Cost Control, Fraud and Abuse, Long Term Care, Oversight, Public Health, Quality Assessment and Improvement (QAPI)
These interactive chart were created using the end of 2Q 2013 CMS Database.  The show the volume of procedures by category (DRG) and  State down to the hospital level. Moving through the tabs left to right, drill down on data by selecting state...
by James Blair | Nov 6, 2013 | Accreditation, Hurricane, Long Term Care, Oversight, Public Health
There appears to be a thriving cottage industry in rating hospitals and healthcare facilities as to which is “Best of Breed†or who is within the “Top XXXâ€. Because this seems to influence the selection by patients, we wanted to dig a little deeper into...
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