Digital healthcare applies to activities involving the transfer of information between patient and provider throughout the entire patient journey, as well as the intelligent use of all related health ...

This report is based on research conducted by Abt Associates in partnership with the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation and Bailit Health Purchasing, Cambridge, MA under contract to the Agency ...

Every CAHPS survey produces several measures of patient experience. These measures include composite measures, which combine two or more related survey items; single-item measures; and rating measures ...

Care coordination means different things to different people; no consensus definition has fully evolved. A recent systematic review identified over 40 definitions of the term "care coordination." 2 ...

December 2024 New File Announcement: Group Practice Linkage File for 2022 has been added. August 2024 New File Announcement: Outpatient Site, Nursing Home, and Home Health Organization Linkage files ...

Problem Statement: Health care delivery is a multidisciplinary practice that requires coordination of care among different professions and provider types. However, health care providers often do not ...

Latest available findings on quality of and access to healthcare ...

Closed-loop communication uses verbal feedback to ensure that messages are correctly understood by recipients using methods including call-outs, check-backs, and teach-back. The illustration below ...

National Healthcare Safety Network Data Reporting Web site The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) provides long-term care facilities with a ...

STAR is a mnemonic tool that is used extensively to help elicit and share key information about activities and their consequences. Its key elements include: Situation monitoring often requires ...

The CAHPS Dental Plan Survey is a standardized questionnaire that asks adult enrollees in dental plans to report on their experiences with care and services from a dental plan, the dentists, and their ...

A new interactive tool from AHRQ allows researchers, policymakers and others to explore trends in hospital care for sepsis, a life-threatening condition that is among the most expensive to treat in ...