by Noah Larsen | Mar 21, 2019 | Patient Experience
HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and, in part, establishes rules for maintaining the patient’s privacy and security of their health information. HIPAA rules apply to “covered entities,” which include health plans and health care...
by Isaiah Dominguez | Mar 18, 2019 | Patient Experience
Each year, PRC participates in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey vendor training to stay up to date on CAHPS happenings. So what did we find out this year? HCAHPS has some big changes headed our way for 2019!...
by Noah Larsen | Mar 15, 2019 | Patient Experience
Goal Setting has the power and potential to create measurable improvements in their care, create organizational alignment for change, and establish accountability. If you want to achieve world-class levels of performance with HCAHPS (or any other key performance...
by Isaiah Dominguez | Mar 12, 2019 | Patient Experience
One of the things I am most proud about at PRC is our devotion to creating Patient Loyalty, so it was refreshing to our team to see the latest Health Affairs article, “The Next Generation of Measuring Patient Experience.” In our 40-year history, we have constantly...
by Noah Larsen | Mar 8, 2019 | Patient Experience
Though HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) is a CMS initiative, it includes more than simply Medicare beneficiaries. The HCAHPS guidelines outline the following eligibility requirements and exclusion restrictions for...
by Isaiah Dominguez | Mar 7, 2019 | Employee Experience, Excellence Accelerator, Patient Experience, Physician Partnership
Benchmarking is a process by which a group or entity can see how they compare against other like groups or entities, giving us a sense of how well we are doing and helping us to identify room for growth. Yet, as anyone who has tried comparing the ever-perplexing...