The Definitive Guide to Digital Rounding Technology as a Resource for Patient Safety
CMS added seven new measures to its hospital inpatient quality program as part of the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule. The patient safety measure took effect in 2025, and the remaining measures begin in 2026. As part of the Final Rule, beginning in January 2025, hospitals will be required to attest to whether they engage in specific evidence-based best practices within each of five domains.
During a CMS survey, hospitals must be able to prove adherence to specific best practices. While most hospital teams are already doing this work, you must now shore up the tracking pieces. Digital rounding technology that includes workflow escalation, reporting, and analysis provides a means to keep track of compliance and provide accountability for many of the required practices.
This recently published 35-page eBook features insight from experts Beth Miller, System Director of Patient Safety – Performance Improvement for CommonSpirit Health, and Maria Dube, Director of Clinical Programs for Sentact, outlining how a unified rounding, safety, and compliance platform supports the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure to reduce preventable harm and improve care quality, and aids the attestation process.
While responsibility for attestation lies with your hospital’s governing board, quality and safety leaders must be prepared to deliver accurate and timely data for these measures. As such, healthcare organizations must adopt a system-wide approach that relies on resourcing, coordination, innovative thinking, and enterprise collaboration with both clinical and non-clinical teams.
