HealthGate Helps Hospitals Address Medicare’s End of Coverage for Preventable Errors

Hospitals bracing to absorb costs caused by Medicare’s recent rule changes can deploy HealthGate’s Nursing Guidelines to address quality of care

BURLINGTON, MASS., AUGUST 22, 2007 — HealthGate Data Corp. (www.healthgate.com), a leading provider of collaboration document management and quality improvement applications for the healthcare industry, today announced the release of a collection of comprehensive evidence-based Nursing Guidelines designed to help hospitals prepare for new Medicare rules that will curtail reimbursements for preventable infections and medical errors.

The list of conditions singled out by these new Medicare rules includes fall-related injuries; bedsores, or pressure ulcers; vascular and urinary tract infections caused by catheters and infections following heart surgery. Also, certain treatments resulting from what Medicare defines as preventable errors, such as objects left in a patient during surgery and incompatible blood products, will also be excluded from reimbursement. Further, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it plans to add three more conditions to the list next year. With the implementation of these new rules in October 2008, CMS gives hospitals clear priorities for their quality improvement initiatives, priorities that will be reinforced when private insurers who are considering similar changes formalize their plans.

HealthGate’s evidence-based set of Nursing Guidelines includes not only the care conditions identified by CMS, but also other nursing topics ranging from acute pain management, medication error and ventilator management to patient education topics such as breastfeeding and smoking cessation. These plans of care and affiliated documents were written and reviewed by nursing professionals with established credentials from an educational, research and practice standpoint. Each Guideline includes sections on: key points, definitions, significance, causes, symptoms and signs, screening and diagnosis, prevention, treatment, patient education, discharge planning, outcomes, a decision tree, and much more. All material is fully referenced to appropriate research from the biomedical literature.

HealthGate’s Nursing Guidelines may be licensed as a standalone product or in conjunction with HealthGate’s Collaboration Architect. For more information, call 1-800-434-4283.

About HealthGate Data Corp.
HealthGate Data Corp., founded in 1994, brings innovative collaboration, document and knowledge management technologies to health systems to support their quality and standardization initiatives. HealthGate’s Collaboration Architect allows teams from various hospital disciplines, including clinical, operational, IT and legal, to collaborate, reach consensus and communicate asynchronously, anytime, through our structured collaboration platform. Visit www.healthgate.com or call HealthGate at 800-434-4283 for more information.

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