HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Lane Wise, Director of Customer Success, ABOUT Healthcare For patients, every transition of care to a different facility brings the risk of complications. Thus timely communication of pertinent information must be passed from the hospital to the post-acute provider with the same intentionality as with the patient.

Care Transition 98

Care Transition Hospitals Nursing Accountability 98

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2024

As technology continues to advance and transform healthcare, the role of nurses is also evolving to include new responsibilities beyond patient care. The recent Change Healthcare cyberattack sent shockwaves through the American healthcare system, crippling critical functions like claims processing and appointment scheduling.

Nursing 111

Nursing Hospitals Care Transition Telemedicine 111

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 13, 2024

Lane Wise, Director of Customer Success at ABOUT Healthcare For patients, every transition of care to a different facility brings the risk of complications. Thus timely communication of pertinent information must be passed from the hospital to the post-acute provider with the same intentionality as with the patient.

Hospitals 97

Hospitals Care Transition Nursing Accountability 97

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Today, worldwide digital interconnectivity is growing, enabling telehealth to advance health equity, bring access to care for underserved regions and meet the urgent, primary and behavioral healthcare needs of an exploding global population. It has been a remarkable journey for the innovators who pioneered telemedicine.

Telemedicine 98

Telemedicine Urgent Care Primary Care Integration 98

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This includes delivering real-time notifications whenever patients experience care events, whether they are at a hospital or emergency department, or post-acute in nature (SNF, LTACH, HHA, IRF, hospice)—leading to better awareness and more complete care.

Urgent Care 52

Urgent Care Primary Care Care Transition Patient Experience 52

Readiness Rounds

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Negatives Where there is much room for improvement is in the responsiveness of hospital staff (65% average HCAHPS score), communication about medications (61%), the quietness of the hospital environment (62%), and the patient’s care transitions (51%). The number one reason we do what we do is the patient.

Care Transition 52

Care Transition Patient Safety Patient Experience Hospitals 52

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.

Integration 52

Integration Medicare Care Transition Patient Experience 52

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.

Integration 52

Integration Patient Experience Care Transition Healthcare 52

Healthcare Leadership

APRIL 24, 2023

Last month on HCLDR we discussed the ideal patient discharge experience (patient separation for those in the EU and Australia). It got me thinking about another aspect of the patient journey that does not get attention – patient transfers and transitions between healthcare organizations.

Care Transition 52

Care Transition Nursing Primary Care General Practice 52

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?

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Care Transition Patient Experience Home Care 52

The Beryl Institute

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

When we first developed the definition for patient experience with a group of contributing healthcare leaders, four themes emerged as central to our discussion and ultimately to the definition itself – the sum of all interactions , shaped by an organization’s culture, that influence patient perceptions across the continuum of care.

Patient Experience 52

Patient Experience Care Transition Doctors Healthcare 52

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

What You Should Know: – The homecare market has surged as healthcare organizations have sought to maintain quality patient care throughout the pandemic and fulfill requirements for value-based reimbursement , according to the latest KLAS report.

Patient Experience 52

Patient Experience Telemedicine Regulations Care Transition 52

Medical GPS

JUNE 23, 2021

Fast forward four years later, that patient portal to his electronic health records (EHRs) has served as a valuable resource to help my husband and I manage our son’s entire healthcare team, appointments, and records. We have had a first-hand experience of how coordinated healthcare can tremendously benefit the patient.

Doctors 52

Doctors Care Transition Healthcare Hospitals 52

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).

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Medicare Accountable Care Accountability 52

NASHP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Patients receiving care at home in the hospital at home model showed lower costs for acute care episodes, compared to a similar group of patients receiving care in a hospital, and no significant differences in safety, quality, or patient experience.

Medicaid 64

Medicaid Nursing Primary Care Hospitals 64

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.

Doctors 52

Doctors Medicaid Quality of Care Healthcare Providers 52

HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2022

Ben Sawyer, VP of Market Development at ABOUT Healthcare, Inc. There are pre-existing and contributing patient flow challenges that have been exacerbated by the pandemic, which can lead to burnout, and therefore are worth discussing. Tediously managed and resolved barriers to care. Additionally, burned-out employees are also 2.6

Tertiary Care 98

Tertiary Care Nursing Patient Experience Patient Safety 98

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. These boards serve as instrumental tools in fostering effective and patient-centered communication within healthcare settings.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Nursing Care Transition Hospitals 52

HIT Consultant

JUNE 2, 2022

Beyond this immediate challenge, however, increased burnout threatens healthcare organizations in several other long-term ways. Among the high-pressure occupations that many providers have, healthcare costs are 50% greater , according to the American Psychological Association (APA). Tediously managed and resolved barriers to care.

Tertiary Care 52

Tertiary Care Nursing Patient Experience Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation are known for our recognition of loved ones who have lost someone from preventable harm in healthcare. However, we also very strongly support the heroic efforts of our healthcare workers as we seek solutions to the system faults that lead to preventable errors occurring.

Patient Safety 69

Patient Safety Prevention Hospitals Nursing 69

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

Along with the potential of the home evolving as a patient, consumer, and caregiver’s health hub come the realities and challenges of peoples’ daily lives: those social (and other) determinants of health (SDoH) and living situations that are real obstacles for many patients’ discharged to home.

Hospitals 93

Hospitals Care Transition Accountability Health Technology 93