Overview Transitioning from a medical setting to a new environment after hospitalization is a very vulnerable time for patients, and one that must be monitored closely to ensure successful overall treatment. The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has developed the Transitions of Care (TRC) measure as part of their HEDIS® measure set to better track the timely continuity
KDJ Consultants had the privilege of assisting HealthTexas Provider Network (HealthTexas) in their commitment to improve the quality of care delivered to patients. Through a strategy of Clinical Transformation, HealthTexas began by measuring how well they deliver preventive services. Then they trained groups of physicians, nurses and administrators to be quality champions, and moved to
Traditional efforts to detect Adverse Events (“AEs”), events that result in patient harm, have focused on voluntary reporting and tracking of errors through incident reports or similar reporting. However, public health researchers have established that only 10 to 20 percent of such errors are ever reported and, of those, 90 to 95 percent cause no
