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

AUGUST 14, 2024

The South Korean government seeks to streamline access to the personal health records of over eight million patients held in tertiary general hospitals in a single platform by next year. WHAT IT'S ABOUT My Healthway allows Koreans to view their medical records in a standardised format from various hospitals. million patients.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 10, 2024

For-profit system Prime Healthcare has bought the real estate of five hospitals it runs from healthcare Medical Properties Trust for $350 million, the real estate firm announced Tuesday. |

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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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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) announced plans to build an independent, freestanding cancer hospital—a first-in-the-region move with rami | The collaboration will yield the Boston area's only free-standing adult cancer hospital.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 24, 2024

What You Should Know: – The healthcare industry faces a growing threat: cyberattacks targeting hospital IT systems. – The success of UPGRADE has the potential to significantly improve hospital cybersecurity and protect patient care from cyber threats. .

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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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Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 27, 2025

Creating a Culture of Quality: Strategies for Hospital Leaders Quality improvement in hospitals is more than a goalits a commitment that requires an organization-wide cultural shift. For hospitals, its the foundation of patient safety, trust, and reputation. Clear Communication 2. Data Transparency 3.

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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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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At Medicity, we were serving 1,300 hospitals, facilitating lots of data exchange across hospitals, primary care and labs, but nothing we were doing was ever going to touch the home and community. And, unfortunately, when people end up in a hospital, returning home is often easier said than done. Healthcare is hard.

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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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p3care

JANUARY 14, 2025

Cost Savings: Availing of healthcare billing solutions diminishes the need for staff permanently based in the clinic or the hospital. It also reduces the need to make additional investments in technology, reducing the cost of administrative tasks. As per Grand View Research, healthcare providers can reduce up to 30% of the operation costs.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 2, 2025

The company has built up enough data now to prove the value of services like hospital at home and SNF at home. I think that care-at-home interest is now extrapolated into hospital at home and other services. From a hospital perspective, it also continues to be a need. It’s the same services for skilled nursing at home.

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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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KHN

APRIL 29, 2022

More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose. But customers must opt in to the feature, so it is likely unused in many hospitals. “It seems inherently safer.”

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

" Hackensack Meridian implemented the Nordis/TD Bank program at its flagship hospital several years ago. As the health system merged and added hospitals, it rolled out the technology to align workflows, processes and technologies. Today it's in place across the health system, in all 12 hospitals.

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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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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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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

. – The collaboration combines Kajeet’s expertise in neutral host networks with Cisco’s Private 5G management platform to address the unique connectivity challenges faced by hospitals and health systems.

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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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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

DECEMBER 6, 2021

"However, for many patients who live outside our area, this technology is critical as it allows them to schedule their follow-up visits without a long drive to the hospital. "That number has since dropped to 30 a day, mostly due to preference by patients and providers for in-person visits. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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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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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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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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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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HIT Consultant

APRIL 7, 2023

Ittai Dayan, co-founder & CEO of Rhino Health Hospitals are increasingly motivated to drive digital transformation in order to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, meet regulatory requirements and stay competitive. Data Security: Hospitals need to protect patient data from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure.

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Sequence Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Hospital readmissions can be costly and challenging for both healthcare providers and patients. By providing timely follow-ups, addressing patient concerns, and offering support post-discharge, medical call centers play a vital role in bridging the gap between hospital care and recovery.

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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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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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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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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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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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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

MAY 25, 2022

Among its capabilities, Lang said, MAP data can show providers trends such as hospitals in certain areas underutilizing home health and hospice. Some hospitals are referring 8% or 9% of patients to home health versus 25%, 26%, 27%,” she said. With individual hospitals, it can be even more varied.”.

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