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July/August 2012 Volume 9, Issue 4
VALUE-BASED
PURCHASING
IT/Clinical Engineering
OB Safety Partnership
Hand Hygiene
DNA “Time Out”
22
30
CONTENTS
July/August 2012 Volume 9, Issue 4
Features
18 Outperform the Competition: Hospital Value-Based Purchasing
By Jeffrey Robbins
22 The IT/Clinical Engineering Governance Gap
By tim gee
30 Hand Hygiene: Necessary but Not Sufficient
By tom Inglesby
36 Partnership Improves OB Safety in New York State
By Kathleen ciccone, RN, mBA; christa R. christakis, mpp,
Andrea mathis, mph, and patricia montone charvat
40 Taking a DNA “Time Out” to Ensure Accuracy
By An
July/August 2012
22 30 CONTENTS July/August 2012 Volume 9, I
SPONORING ORGANIZATIONS Ameri
NEWS Health Lawyers’ Checklist Helps Hospitals P
2012 High Reliability Conference Proceedings and
TECHNOlOGy The RTLS Patient Safety Improvement
AMERICAN COllEGE OF SuRGEONS The Critical Import
of Medicine concluded that administrative data ha
HEAlTH IT & QuAlITy Patient-Centered Workflow
only necessary and indicated tasks are
Outperform the Competition: Hospital Value-Bas
C ompetition to capture the highest incentive pay
vAluE-BASED PuRCHASING F
As with any contest, some VBP participants will c
The IT/Clinical Engineering Governance G
W ith certain patient s
THE GOvERNANCE GAP
of themselves as being responsible for medical de
THE GOvERNANCE GAP Both of these standards prov
IT’S ALMOST HERE! ast opporun ty BOOK YOUR AD TOD
THE GOvERNANCE GAP
SuMMARy Besides the continued automation of diag-
Hand Hygiene: Necessary but Not Suffic
C ommon sense, at least since Antonie
HAND HyGIENE
HAND HyGIENE
Partnership Improves OB Safety in New
T he safety of mothers and babies
PARTNERSHIP FOR OB SAFETy tive recognized and a
hospital sent four professionals to the EFM train
Taking a DNA “Time Out” to Ensure Accura
Figure 1. Complications within the Diagnostic Tes
DNA “TIME OuT” BENEFITS OF A DNA “TIME OuT” Add
TEAM TRAINING shared learning for true teamwork
ceive the necessary support from employ- ees on o
ISMP that’s the way we do things around here!
The influence of credible, clinical leaders who be
HAND HyGIENE Compliance Improvement through tec
we’re monitoring users with electronic tools, we
Since all staff in hospitals wear some sort of ba
ABQAuRP NEWS Quality Conundrums Lynn Helmer, MD,
American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilizati
Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare (PSQH) welc