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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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.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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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