CMS issued a memo encouraging hospitals to use the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Common Formats to meet adverse event tracking requirements. Hospitals are required to track adverse ...

CMS’s Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization has created its first mobile app, called Management of Anticoagulation in the Peri-Procedural Period. MAPPP was created to tell ...

Hospitals’ incident reporting systems are missing about half of Medicare patient harm events and even more infrequently investigating those events or reporting them to the government, according to a ...

As a Condition for Participation in the Medicare program, hospitals must establish and maintain a Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program. To meet QAPI requirements under 42 CFR ...