The CMS QIO Program has created 28 new SIP awards for innovative projects that use data analytics to improve hospital and care quality while reducing healthcare costs.
The CMS Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Program has established new funding opportunities for projects that use big data analytics to improve quality of care, reduce healthcare costs, and expand the scale of smaller quality improvement initiatives, stated a recent blog post by CMS.
Hasil kajian yang dilakukan Pusat Kebijakan dan Manajemen Kesehatan (PKMK) Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Gadjah Mada (FK-UGM) Tahun 2015 menunjukkan indeks kualitas fasilitas kesehatan mitra BPJS Kesehatan rata-rata 73 persen.
“Dengan rincian kualitas input sebeser 79 persen, kualitas proses 65 persen dan kualitas outcome 76 persen,” kata Kepala Divisi Manajemen Mutu PKMK FK-UGM dr Hanevi Djasri saat memaparkan hasil kajiannya tersebut, di Jakarta, Kamis (31/3).
Patients who are difficult to deal with may tend to distract the doctor’s attention away from quality care, said Dutch researchers after studying two related studies.
The experts involved in the study could not really determine why, but surmised that the doctors might be using up more of their “mental resources on dealing with the difficult patients’ behaviors, impeding adequate processing of clinical findings.”
Kualitas puskesmas belum mendukung untuk menangani pasien BPJS Kesehatan. Sehingga, banyak pasien yang mesti dirujuk ke rumah sakit.
Ketua Pengurus Besar Ikatan Dokter Indonesia Daeng M Faqih mengakui layanan untuk pasien BPJS Kesehatan masih amburadul. Menurut dia, dua hal yang penting diperhatikan untuk meningkatkan layanan pasien BPJS Kesehatan yakni akses dan mutu puskesmas.
Recently, while visiting a primary care clinic, one of the authors saw a sign posted on an exam room wall encouraging patients with diabetes to have their cholesterol measured. Amidst the noise of notices to be found in clinical spaces this seemed innocuous enough. The sign went on to explain that patients were encouraged to measure their low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels, so that the clinic could meet its quality target of 100% of diabetes patients with measured cholesterol levels.
Pelaksanaan Pekan Imunisasi Nasional (PIN) yang digelar pemerintah pada 8-15 Maret lalu tidak mencapai target yang diinginkan sebesar 95 persen. Anak usia 0-59 bulan yang mendapat vaksin polio sebanyak 89,1 persen.
Inflasi tahunan di bulan Februari mencapai angka 4,4 persen year on year (yoy) atau deflasi sebesar 0,09 persen month to month (mtm). Inflasi ini tidak hanya dipengaruhi oleh volatile food atau makanan, namun juga kesehatan yang menjadi penyumbang inflasi terbesar setelah makanan.
Dr Kofi Issah, Upper East Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has observed that delay by the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to re-reimburse claims to health facilities has an effect on the quality of health care delivery in the country.
JAKARTA (Suara Karya): Menteri Kesehatan (Menkes) Nila FA Moeloek mengingatkan masyarakat untuk tidak menatap langsung proses terjadinya gerhana matahari total, dengan mata telanjang.
Fourth in a series on what Harvard scholars are doing to identify and understand inequality, in seeking solutions to one of America’s most vexing problems.
If you want to get an idea of the gap between the world’s sickest and healthiest people, don’t fly to a faraway land. Just look around the United States.