HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As the relationship between healthcare providers and patients evolves, the healthcare industry is beginning to acknowledge and encourage patients as active partners in their care journey. The 21 st Century Cures Act is enabling patient-driven healthcare information exchange.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 10, 2023

Patient portals such as MyHealth or MyChart are good tools to communicate with healthcare providers, schedule appointments, or view details about lab results and medications. If they have, they may want to deactivate their proxy access or the portal account to ensure their information remains confidential.

Health Data 40

Health Data Accountability Patient Safety Healthcare Quality 40

Wisconsin Healthcare Leadership

JANUARY 28, 2022

Exceptional healthcare quality, top patient experience scores, sound financial performance and long-term success are all associated with organizations that exude a positive culture. Wayne UNC Health Care endeavors to bridge the gaps between the urban, tertiary academic medical center and rural, community healthcare.

Accountability 40

Accountability Patient Experience Integration Healthcare Quality 40

Healthcare Leadership Council

JULY 25, 2018

Former Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz, president and CEO of the Better Medicare Alliance (of which the Healthcare Leadership Council is a member) said “this study adds to the growing body of evidence showing the ability of Medicare Advantage to align incentives to better manage the care for a high-need population with multiple chronic conditions.”

Medicare 52

Medicare Healthcare Quality Accountability Medicaid 52

Etactics

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Today, 61% of healthcare data breaches are due to negligent employees. Healthcare administration is hard enough as it is. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the federal law that helps protect your health information. Healthcare Before HIPAA Why Do We Need HIPAA? Conclusion What is HIPAA?

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

An embarrassment for US healthcare is that we have the highest rate of maternal mortality and morbidity among high-income nations, especially among American Indian, Alaska Native, and Black mothers, those of lower socioeconomic status, and people younger than 18 years or older than 35 years.1

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Prevention Hospitals Healthcare Quality 52

Health Dialog

APRIL 26, 2017

Today, the healthcare market is making a dramatic shift away from fee-for-service to reimbursement schemes that value clinical outcomes. Through legislative action and mandated programs and initiatives, the federal government has positioned SDM as a key element of its strategy to reduce healthcare costs and improve population health.

Accountable Care 40

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Icanotes

JANUARY 5, 2024

Why AI Will Never Replace Therapists By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | January 5, 2024 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making remarkable strides in a number of fields, including healthcare to hospitality services. Do therapist AI tools consistently adhere to HIPAA and other healthcare quality and privacy standards?

Nursing 52

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Patient Safety Movement

MARCH 28, 2024

” Joe Kiani, Founder Patient Safety Movement Foundation Letter from CEO In a world of multiple wars, starvation, poverty, and limited healthcare access, it is always uplifting to see a breakthrough in medical research. The loss of solar power may cause power outages in its path. Stay safe and stay well. Michael A.E.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Prevention Doctors Quality Assurance 52

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 28, 2022

Uber Health , Uber’s healthcare arm, announced its first Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Michael Cantor. Renowned clinical informatics expert Dr. Blackford Middleton has joined ClosedLoop , healthcare’s data science platform as Chief Medical Officer. Michael Cantor. Dr. Blackford Middleton.

Biotechnology 98

Biotechnology Life Sciences Private Practices Healthcare Analytics 98

HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2022

On the surface, the blossoming of the digital ecosystem is a tremendous step forward in the use of technology to address gaps in traditional healthcare. However, “an app for everything” mentality has significant downsides, namely a complex and disjointed patient experience – and arguably, does not result in better quality of care.

Patient Experience 98

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Health Dialog

JANUARY 14, 2020

URAC is a nonprofit organization that promotes healthcare quality through leadership, accreditation, measurement, and innovation. They offer accreditations in different areas of the healthcare industry, including for health call centers. What is URAC? Achieving a URAC accreditation. Ensuring client satisfaction.

Nursing 40

Nursing Healthcare Quality Accountability Prevention 40

Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Beta Healthcare Symposium Joe Kiani also recently gave a keynote at Beta Healthcare Group’s 2023 Annual Member Symposium focused on “Strategies for Improving Patient & Employee Safety,” held in Dana Point, California. Through this year’s slogan “Elevate the voice of patients!”

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Patient Safety Prevention Hospitals Healthcare 52

Healthcare ECONOMIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The unavailability of physical data from Medicare and Medicaid through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services jeopardizes the accountability of the entire healthcare system in the US through research that needs to be rigorous, reproducible, and conducted with academic freedom.

Medicare 74

Medicare Medicaid Accountability Quality of Care 74

Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 5, 2022

Second, issuers only may count expenditures directly related to activities that improve healthcare quality. HHS would apply time and distance standards at the county level and vary by county designation—similar to Medicare Advantage, the designation method would take into account population size and density.

Primary Care 52

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