The SCIP Card-2 Beta-Blocker Measure

In this second installment of Your QIO Answers Your Questions, Henrietta Hight, BA, BSN, RN, Project Coordinator for the National Patient Safety Initiative at FMQAI (the Medicare Quality improvement Organization for Florida), and Susan Hiyama, RN, MSN, CPHQ, Quality Improvement Specialist at Health Services Advisory Group of California (the Medicare QIO for California) answer questions posed by physicians and hospital staff regarding the SCIP Card-2 Beta-Blocker Measure. This short (18 minute) presentation provides an overview of this publicly reported hospital quality measure and gives practical suggestions on how hospitals can improve their compliance with and patient outcomes for the measure.
The podcast is available at http://www.hsag.com/App_Resources/Documents/HSAG_SCIP-Card-2_BBMeasure.mp3

Physicians & the SCIP VTE Measures

In this first presentation of "Your QIO Answers Your Questions," Howard Pitluk, MD, MPH, FACS, and Mark Michelman, MD, MBA, discuss the Surgical Care Improvement Program VTE Quality Meaures and answer questions from the audience. This Webinar, conducted on November 5, 2009, was conducted for physicians and hospital staff in Arizona, California, and Florida by Health Services Advisory Group, Inc. (the Medicare Quality improvement Organization for Arizona), Health Services Advisory Group of California, Inc. (the Medicare Quality Improvment Organization for California), and FMQAI, Inc. (the Medicare Quality improvement Organization for Florida). The podcast is available at http://www.hsag.com/App_Resources/Documents/Physicians_and-the_SCIP-VTE_Measures.mp3