American HealthTech Announces Expanded Outcomes Reporting to Help Providers Get a Head Start With QAPI Compliance
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Posted on December 1, 2011 at 10:07:01 AM
American HealthTech Announces Expanded Outcomes Reporting to Help Providers Get a Head Start With QAPI Compliance
Providers Can Prepare Now for New Regulations Soon to Follow Proposed Rules
JACKSON, Miss., Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- American HealthTech (http://www.healthtech.net), the Ultimate Connectivity Partner in long-term care, announces the expansion of Outcomes Reporting that will help providers prepare for compliance with Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI). Included as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, QAPI provides the opportunity for CMS to mobilize best practices. The QAPI initiative is circulating as proposed rules for nursing homes.
The goal of QAPI is to encourage providers to focus on indicators related to better clinical outcomes as well as the prevention and reduction of medical errors. According to Teresa Chase, President & CEO, American HealthTech, "CMS recognizes that many times outcomes are not monitored or analyzed correctly - that's why they are proposing new rules to enforce quality tracking and management." Under QAPI, facilities will determine what issues they will target, create goals, and set priorities for performance improvement.
Ellen First RN, BSN, MSN, RAC-CT3.0 and Nurse Consultant for Health Dimensions Group (http://www.healthdimensionsgroup.com), clarified that "providers will have a critical need for comprehensive, real-time, consistent data to identify problems and concerns; perform root cause analysis; and identify evidence-based interventions to enact immediate and sustained improvements. Powerful reporting tools are a must."
Chase adds, "Outcomes Reporting turns clinicians into empowered, data-driven detectives. When the proposed rules are final, American HealthTech clients will have had months of preparation with mining clinical information to prioritize and drive continuous improvement programs for QAPI."
About American HealthTech
Headquartered in Jackson, MS, American HealthTech the post-acute industry's Ultimate Connectivity Partner, connecting caregivers, partners, and healthcare networks to drive higher outcomes in the new era of post-acute care. Coast to coast, over a quarter of the nation's providers depend on AHT daily for innovations that free hands to care for others. Founded in 1982, American HealthTech is an employee-owned company.
SOURCE American HealthTech
American HealthTech
CONTACT: CONTACT: Jennifer Clement, jclement@healthtech.net, or Pam Selker Rak, +1-412-221-4550, pam.rak@ctechrocks.com
Web Site: http://www.healthtech.net
Providers Can Prepare Now for New Regulations Soon to Follow Proposed Rules
JACKSON, Miss., Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- American HealthTech (http://www.healthtech.net), the Ultimate Connectivity Partner in long-term care, announces the expansion of Outcomes Reporting that will help providers prepare for compliance with Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI). Included as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, QAPI provides the opportunity for CMS to mobilize best practices. The QAPI initiative is circulating as proposed rules for nursing homes.
The goal of QAPI is to encourage providers to focus on indicators related to better clinical outcomes as well as the prevention and reduction of medical errors. According to Teresa Chase, President & CEO, American HealthTech, "CMS recognizes that many times outcomes are not monitored or analyzed correctly - that's why they are proposing new rules to enforce quality tracking and management." Under QAPI, facilities will determine what issues they will target, create goals, and set priorities for performance improvement.
Ellen First RN, BSN, MSN, RAC-CT3.0 and Nurse Consultant for Health Dimensions Group (http://www.healthdimensionsgroup.com), clarified that "providers will have a critical need for comprehensive, real-time, consistent data to identify problems and concerns; perform root cause analysis; and identify evidence-based interventions to enact immediate and sustained improvements. Powerful reporting tools are a must."
Chase adds, "Outcomes Reporting turns clinicians into empowered, data-driven detectives. When the proposed rules are final, American HealthTech clients will have had months of preparation with mining clinical information to prioritize and drive continuous improvement programs for QAPI."
About American HealthTech
Headquartered in Jackson, MS, American HealthTech the post-acute industry's Ultimate Connectivity Partner, connecting caregivers, partners, and healthcare networks to drive higher outcomes in the new era of post-acute care. Coast to coast, over a quarter of the nation's providers depend on AHT daily for innovations that free hands to care for others. Founded in 1982, American HealthTech is an employee-owned company.
SOURCE American HealthTech
American HealthTech
CONTACT: CONTACT: Jennifer Clement, jclement@healthtech.net, or Pam Selker Rak, +1-412-221-4550, pam.rak@ctechrocks.com
Web Site: http://www.healthtech.net