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OSF deploys care transition program, reduces readmission rate from 29% to 9%

Healthcare It News

Patients discharged from hospitals often were readmitted due to complications that could have been prevented with better monitoring and more proactive management, said Matt Nieukirk, director of the SNF practice at OSF HealthCare. "All interventions and patient outcomes are thoroughly tracked and analyzed," he added.

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How Effective Patient Communication Boards Improve Safety & HCAHPS Scores

Readiness Rounds

This blog aims to address these uncertainties and provide insights into optimizing the use of patient communication boards. → Are you unsure whether they genuinely contribute to patient safety and enhance the overall patient experience? The 8 Dos of a Successful Patient Communication Board 1.

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center: Equity and Vision

Sheppard Health Law

In addition, only four models met the requirements to be expanded in duration and scope: Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model; Pioneer ACO Model; Repetitive, Prior Authorization of Repetitive, Schedule Non-Emergent Ambulance Transport Model; and Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program Expanded Model.

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Aligning Quality Measures with the National Care Coordination Standards for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN)

NASHP

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] Care Transitions. Score – 12). Pediatrics. 14] [link].

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From Telemedicine to Complete Virtual Care and Beyond

HIT Consultant

Since its inception, digital health services began the transformation from traditional healthcare — a reactive, disease-focused model — to a proactive, holistic system that is now recognized as virtual care. This remarkable approach to care is digitally integrated, patient-centric and focused on personalized health and wellness.

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Out of Sight: Why Invisible Patient Engagement is Optimal Patient Engagement

HIT Consultant

A proliferation of point solutions add value in terms of data collection, but many are tacked onto IT architectures and siloed, resulting in data gaps or cumbersome manual data processing and integration, preventing timely and nuanced data analysis. Where does patient engagement fit?