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For example, real-time data enables organizations to track weekly trends, calibrate staff for risk adjustment, or to act on timely caretransition opportunities. Today’s care teams must trust and rely on data to deliver effective care. Eroded patientexperience.
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This includes delivering real-time notifications whenever patientsexperiencecare 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.
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CareTransitions Between Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities: Perspectives of Sending and Receiving Providers”, Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety , 1 November 2018, [link] , accessed 24 April 2023. Britton MC, Ouellet GM, Minges KE, Gawel M, Hodshon B, Chaudhry SI.
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Are you unsure whether they genuinely contribute to patient safety and enhance the overall patientexperience? A well-organized and patient-oriented environment, facilitated by the presence of communication boards, positively influences patients' perceptions of the hospital's care quality.
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