In celebration of Patient Safety Awareness Week, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has launched a medication tracking tool specifically for the nation’s growing spanish-speaking population.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will conduct a conference call on Monday, March 12, to outline Stage 2 Requirements for Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has introduced a new tool aimed at helping hospitals reduce patient readmission rates. Hospitals can present the booklet “Taking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital” to patients upon discharge to help them prepare for self-care and to encourage timely scheduling of follow-up appointments.

With Patient Safety Awareness Week in full swing nationwide, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has introduced several new tools to help generate better outcomes for patients in hospital and clinical settings.

Sunday marked the beginning of National Patient Safety Awareness Week, and many hospitals across the state are going above and beyond to call attention, both inside and outside their organizations, to this crucial healthcare concept.

In response to high demand for a recent Webinar about the AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit for Hospitals, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is repeating this popular event. Participants will hear live presentations about the toolkit from its developers and learn from a quality expert at a hospital that tested it.

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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has announced the publication of its white paper Early Evidence on the Patient-Centered Medical Home, prepared in collaboration with Mathematica Policy Research.