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

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

What You Should Know: – Radial Analytics , a Concord, MA-based company optimizing patient care transitions with real-time decision-support solutions for payers and providers, today announced it has raised $3M in funding led by Initialized Capital. Such opportunities to intervene often occur at care transitions.

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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%).

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Healthcare Leadership

APRIL 24, 2023

Addressing transitional care is important because it is a time when patients are vulnerable. Transitional Care: Moving patients from one care setting to another”, American Journal of Nursing , September 2008, [link] , accessed 24 April 2023. Kansagara D, Chan B, Harmon D, Englander, H.

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Readiness Rounds

JULY 31, 2023

Are you unsure whether they genuinely contribute to patient safety and enhance the overall patient experience? Patients can use the boards to express their needs, concerns, enabling healthcare professionals to address them promptly. The 8 Dos of a Successful Patient Communication Board 1.

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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.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

They are consequently significantly overrepresented in institutions, such as nursing facilities. They are also less likely to be employed or have a stable home , adequate medical care , and informal supports in the community. They live shorter lives and develop chronic health conditions earlier in life than other Americans.

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