Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Orlando Health on Monday announced that it's been approved by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration to start delivering hospital-level acute care in adult patients’ homes. " Here are some tips for how health systems should be preparing now for the future of hospital-at-home. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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KHN

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2023

Sikkim hospital upgrades to smart connected beds The Central Referral Hospital of the Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences-Tadong has tied up with Dozee to enable continuous patient monitoring. It is said that the upgrade is part of CRH's initiatives to transition to a smart hospital.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Today, many hospitals rely on Wi-Fi and public cellular for connectivity even though the limits of current Wi-Fi solutions are being reached. The mandates of improving quality of care and lowering costs mean that hospital IT directors should consider deploying new, private 5G networks.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 15, 2023

Patient transitions from the hospital to post-acute care providers, including home health agencies, continue to be plagued by incomplete medical records and missing information. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is calling out hospitals for putting patients and their families in harm’s way. “CMS

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Nordic

JUNE 21, 2023

This edition of The Remedy reviews a brief history of the hospital IT department, digital health’s current state as partners in care, and what the future could hold for health IT.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 14, 2022

based Georgetown Home Care (GHC) has yet again lowered readmission rates for a major hospital. Its readmission success ostensibly began in 2019 when the home care agency first worked with spinal surgery patients at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. They kept seeing data on the readmission problem with hospitals.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 7, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On June 6, 2023, CMS posted QSO-23-16-Hospitals. CMS has identified areas of concern related to missing or inaccurate patient information when a patient is discharged from a hospital. risk of falls, family or caregiving involvement/availability, homelessness, etc.).

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 27, 2022

Kaiser Health News published this eye-opening piece – Hospital-acquired pneumonia is killing patients. Hospital patients not getting their teeth brushed, or not brushing their teeth themselves, is believed to be a leading cause of hundreds of thousands of cases of pneumonia a year in patients who have not been put on a ventilator.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2023

"The findings in this year’s Ponemon report are, unfortunately, not surprising as ransomware continues to shut down hospital operations and disrupt care at an alarming rate,” said Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet, in a statement. They also found that it helped them to respond to and recover from ransomware attacks.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 8, 2024

THE PROBLEM Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center (TBRHSC) staff know that with limited health resources throughout Northwestern Ontario, it's very important they work together across all hospitals that provide surgical services to improve access to care for remote and rural patients. They understand us and what we are trying to do."

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has also been integrated with the hospital group's web-based PAS. These additions provide "significant efficiency improvement" for hospitals. These features are the latest addition to its epi-me online patient admissions portal, also by EpiSoft.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Across hospital settings, IT infrastructure has not kept pace with ultrasound innovation. Despite the many benefits of POCUS, the opportunity for wider implementation is hindered because today’s POCUS tools do not seamlessly integrate with existing hospital IT infrastructure.

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Health Business Group

MAY 16, 2024

Explore the professional journey of BK Nayak , the innovative leader behind Spikewell , whose advancements are revolutionizing hospital IT solutions. This episode also explores Spikewell's mission to customize IT systems for hospitals, utilizing AI to enhance efficiency and adaptability.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

DECEMBER 11, 2023

1 Profits generated from billing insurers for discounted drugs, recently valued at almost $50 billion,today, 2750 hospitals are enrolled in the program Not only can a hospital’s in-house pharmacy participate in 340B, but so can contracted outpatient pharmacy.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

– Unity Health has experienced substantial growth since starting out as a small community hospital. Its health system today includes three acute care community hospitals, as well as a long-term acute care facility. The organization will go LIVE with Expanse in 2022.

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Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2022

Tampa General Hospital has thrown its hat into the home-based care ring. To pull this off, the hospital has formed a partnership with the Visiting Nurse Association of Florida (VNA), a home health agency. Tampa General Hospital is a nonprofit academic medical center and one of the largest hospitals in the U.S.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The written or electronic notice shall contain the following text: “The Open Payments database is a federal tool used to search payments made by drug and device companies to physicians and teaching hospitals. It can be found here.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Advocate Health cares for about 6 million patients annually through about 150,000 employees, over 1,000 sites of care and 67 hospitals. Among other at-home service areas, the organization also has hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home programs. The goal is ultimately to build those capabilities on top of each other.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2023

The lack of data interoperability is a big headache for clinicians and hospitals. Patients echo these concerns, with 35% expressing worries about clinicians' limited access to their relevant health data. It disrupts workflows and slows treatment.

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p3care

JUNE 24, 2022

For how long they have been providing medical billing services to the hospitals. For how long they have been providing medical billing services to the hospitals. Before all this, you need to keep the following questions in your mind. Here are some questions which every healthcare provider needs to ask a medical billing company.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 26, 2022

By working with Intel, DiA was able to optimize the processing time of its AI-based models by over 40% percent when running on local hospital IT infrastructure based on Intel CPUs, without requiring the use of a discrete graphics processing unit (GPU) or integration of more complex IT infrastructures. .

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Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2024

It basically changed home health from a fee-for-service per-diem model into a bundled or capitated model, similar to a hospital DRG episode. There have been some variations around cost qualifications, how to get into hospice and how long you’ve been in hospital, but in general, not much. It’s completely flipped.

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Vie Healthcare

JULY 11, 2024

He also highlights the positive impact of storage on hospital margins, and shares why success in business comes from a focus on customers and ‘’attracting’’, not chasing. And then, once that dust settled, there were some hospitals that said, “Okay, we never want to be caught off guard like that again. What areas can we fix?

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

There are huge opportunities for hospitals to review their contract management , to self-contract, to be bold and visionary. Hospitals need to do what’s best for the hospital and its patients. Hospitals need to do what’s best for the hospital and its patients. Every Hospital Needs a Margin Improvement Team.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Today’s healthcare staffing shortage, fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic but years in the making, has left many hospitals and health systems scrambling. A recent study indicates that clinical staffing costs have increased by approximately $17 million annually for a 500-bed hospital. The staffing shortage has begun to touch patients, too.

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 7, 2022

When you measure spend analytics you are using one of the most powerful tools available to hospitals. Does your hospital know your top 25 high cost supply items right now, or its high cost service items, by department? Data analytics helps hospitals to reduce costs and improve quality of care. The answer is in your data.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Survey findings reveal that POCUS adoption is hindered by insufficient infrastructure, primarily manifested in challenges related to poor image quality and integration with hospital IT systems.

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Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Hospital IT services is a large, and growing, area of spend. It falls within hospital purchased services. This approach makes it challenging for hospitals to benchmark. Assessing whether your hospital is getting the best price requires specific strategies: 1. It requires modelling and pattern recognition.

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Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

When hospitals approach vendors with a pricing request, they refer it to their pricing committee. This is a real frustration point for hospitals that urgently need to make cost savings. . These cost savings have often been benchmarked by multiple sources, but hospitals are forced to wait for a review by the pricing committee.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Intermountain has a number of care-at-home programs under its roof, including home health care, primary care, hospital-at-home and more. You go to the hospital, and you get taken care of there and then transitioned back. Each episode of care is completely siloed, for the most part,” he said during the discussion.

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Patient Safety Movement

JULY 31, 2023

The human cost of this failure to implement evidence-based practices into our hospitals was shown by a study published earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine. Assessing 11 Massachusetts hospitals, it found that nearly one in four patients admitted experienced an adverse event.

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Patient Safety Movement

JULY 31, 2023

The human cost of this failure to implement evidence-based practices into our hospitals was shown by a study published earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine. Assessing 11 Massachusetts hospitals, it found that nearly one in four patients admitted experienced an adverse event.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

What You Should Know: – As COVID-19 accelerated demand for more advanced digital health and patient engagement technologies, hospital and health system IT departments shouldered these expectations – rolling out new capabilities in record time, while still balancing daily operational support responsibilities.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 7, 2022

That’s especially true for health plans and health systems following the introduction of the COVID-related Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver by the U.S. In addition to the hospital-at-home waiver, Messina also addressed the growing demand for home-based palliative care and models that bring skilled-nursing-facility (SNF) care into the home.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It is the information given by the patients during their visit to a clinic or a hospital. Also, add the basic contact information of the patient to the hospital directory. Such information is useful not just for the hospital staff but also for the medical billing and coding services. It includes details such as: Addresses.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It is the information given by the patients during their visit to a clinic or a hospital. Also, add the basic contact information of the patient to the hospital directory. Such information is useful not just for the hospital staff but also for the medical billing and coding services. It includes details such as: Addresses.

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