Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2024

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2022

Using Real-Time E-Notifications to Lower Costs and Improving High Quality Care. Bamboo Health is a healthcare technology solutions company, focused on fostering care collaboration and providing information and actionable insights across the entire continuum of care.

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Healthcare Leadership

MARCH 19, 2023

Since that is the case, healthcare providers should spend more time and energy improving their discharge experiences. Over the past year, I there has been a lot of focus on the front-end patient experience. Q1 What aspect of the patient discharge process needs the most improvement?

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Readiness Rounds

JULY 31, 2023

Patient communication boards play a pivotal role in enhancing both patient satisfaction and a hospital's HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) score and star rating. Are you unsure whether they genuinely contribute to patient safety and enhance the overall patient experience?

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NASHP

JUNE 22, 2022

Comprehensive quality measurement of care coordination services is essential to evaluate and guide care coordination efforts, yet little agreement exists among stakeholders about how to best measure the provision and quality of care coordination services. [4] National Care Coordination Standards Domain. Care Transitions.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Innovation Center, established in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act, began as an initiative to transition the health system to value-based care by developing, testing and evaluating new payment and service delivery models in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2022

On the contrary, patient engagement is becoming a c-level imperative at healthcare systems across the country. Effective engagement has emerged as a leading tool on two fronts: – Counteracting the labor crisis in healthcare by improving job satisfaction through the streamlining of intensive manual outreach and rounding.

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