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. The Washington D.C.-based In a pilot program, it reduced readmissions by 44%.

Home Care 106

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 14, 2025

Knowing that patients may wait a year-plus for a specialist appointment, I cant emphasize enough the importance of two things: preventative care and telemedicine. Patients may also be unaware of how broadly telemedicine has been adopted over the past few years in order to expand access to care, including at their local hospital.

Primary Care 122

Primary Care Life Sciences Telemedicine Integration 122

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The number of AI-powered process automation systems continues to expand, promising to shorten payment times and simplify management while integrating with existing hospital IT investments. When implemented thoughtfully and with realistic expectations, these systems can reduce denials, missed charges, and low-risk scores.

Regulations 98

Regulations Integration Accountability Healthcare 98

Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 27, 2025

For hospitals, its the foundation of patient safety, trust, and reputation. Factors like avoidable hospital readmissions, inconsistent quality measures, and patient dissatisfaction contribute to this disparity. By adopting a culture of quality, hospitals can address these challenges at the ground level.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 5, 2024

The ACA’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program penalizes hospitals with higher-than-expected readmission rates for certain conditions. It also encourages hospitals to enhance communication, care coordination, and patient engagement in discharge plans to prevent avoidable readmissions.

Nursing 52

Nursing Prevention Medicare Hospitals 52

Sequence Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Effective communication during care transitions, along with proper medication reconciliation, is vital for preventing readmissions and improving overall patient outcomes. Preventing Complications and Infections Preventing complications and infections is essential to reducing hospital readmissions.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Care Transition Primary Care Prevention 52

Readiness Rounds

MAY 15, 2018

Proactive, scheduled surveillance of key processes in areas such as medication management, hand hygiene and CAUTI & CLABSI prevention, offer increased awareness as to what is or isn’t working. A good example of Readiness Rounds methodology in action is the way in which it supports our clients with their infection prevention efforts.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Performance improvement Prevention Hospitals 52

Readiness Rounds

MAY 15, 2018

Proactive, scheduled surveillance of key processes in areas such as medication management, hand hygiene and CAUTI & CLABSI prevention, offer increased awareness as to what is or isn’t working. A good example of Readiness Rounds methodology in action is the way in which it supports our clients with their infection prevention efforts.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Performance improvement Prevention Hospitals 52

KHN

APRIL 29, 2022

Hospitals are not required to report most drug mix-ups, so the seven incidents are undoubtedly a small sampling of a much larger total. Safety advocates say errors like these could be prevented by requiring nurses to type in at least five letters of a drug’s name when searching hospital cabinets.

Hospitals 119

Hospitals Nursing Accountability Patient Safety 119

Cloud Blogs

MARCH 23, 2021

It can also provide preventive services that allow for patient education or wellness coaching regarding non-emergency health and wellness issues. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, in the U.S. 3 RPM can help to lower costs and improve a patient's quality of life without the necessity of hospitalization.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 13, 2023

The key is not to have cameras in the home or to big brother them, but it is to actually create smart monitoring to make sure that we’re making good decisions and trying to prevent something bigger from happening. Overall, the goal really is to create a preventative medicine approach rather than reactive.

Home Care 105

Home Care Nursing Urgent Care Hospitals 105

Home Health Care

JUNE 7, 2022

In some cases, that increasing acuity of patients that are coming into the hospital, it’s minimizing, not eliminating, the need for “hospital-at-home services.” I think the convergence of those factors is creating tremendous demand for the SNF-at-home service.

Hospitals 111

Hospitals Home Care Hospice Care Prevention 111

Cloud Blogs

MARCH 23, 2021

It can also provide preventive services that allow for patient education or wellness coaching regarding non-emergency health and wellness issues. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, in the U.S. 3 RPM can help to lower costs and improve a patient's quality of life without the necessity of hospitalization.

Prevention 52

Prevention Doctors Hospitals Healthcare 52

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Hospitals are sitting ducks. Research by Sophos highlighted that hospitals are more likely to be targeted by ransomware attacks, less likely to be able to prevent such attacks, and less likely to backup their data. Find out how they keep hospitals flowing here.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Prevention Accountability Integration 52

NASHP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

988 operates through the existing National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. These mental health, substance use, and suicide prevention lines must be able to take all calls, triage the calls to assess the additional needs, and coordinate connections to additional support based on the assessment of the team and the preferences of the caller.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Urgent Care Hospitals Prevention 52

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Rather than being penalized when these shifts lead to blind spots and missed data, clinicians need to feel empowered with the right solutions that offer visibility into their patient’s well-being as they transition care settings both inside and outside the hospital. Effectively managing patient loads. 41% of all U.S.

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KHN

APRIL 29, 2022

Hospitals are not required to report most drug mix-ups, so the seven incidents are undoubtedly a small sampling of a much larger total. Safety advocates say errors like these could be prevented by requiring nurses to type in at least five letters of a drug’s name when searching hospital cabinets.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Nursing Accountability Patient Safety 52

Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

.” Or conversely, “Hey, based on this, we saved you a trip to the cath lab, but let’s talk about your lipid management to prevent further issues down the road.” For hospitals, it’s probably a little different as far as what ultimately persuades them.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Patient Experience Hospitals Nursing 52

Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2023

And we’ve done that with hospitals, taken away the heavy lift part of it because it is a bit of a heavy lift and really it’s just been remarkable how much we take out by taking that approach.’’ It may be very beneficial to outsource dietary or, for your hospital, it may be really beneficial to insource.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Healthcare Doctors Accountability 52

Vie Healthcare

APRIL 26, 2023

Not for a hospital, it wouldn’t be that much, but whatever it is. $14 Not for a hospital, it wouldn’t be that much, but whatever it is. But even preventing this is a decision that’s being made that’s going to waste time and resources and make the workflow even worse. What goes into all that?”

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nursing Hospitals Doctors 52

Vie Healthcare

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Taking the next step here, what would you say are some key challenges or shortcomings that you see in our current system that prevents us from doing better. Now in the hospital, it’s probably even less if you really think about how sick our patients are. Totally agree. Jim [00:06:09]: So what would you say then?

Doctors 52

Doctors Nursing Healthcare Hospitals 52

Vie Healthcare

MAY 4, 2023

Not for a hospital, it wouldn’t be that much, but whatever it is. But even preventing this is a decision that’s being made that’s going to waste time and resources and make the workflow even worse. What goes into all that?” ” Or you see supply costs $20 billion, and you’re like, “Man.”

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nursing Hospitals Doctors 52

Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

Le is excited about the PACE model’s ability to improve health outcomes and lower costs through preventative care. Again, I initially started work as a hospitalist, but as I kept seeing patients revolve back and forth in and out of the hospital, it just didn’t make sense. I thought, what the heck?

Home Care 106

Home Care Nursing Hospitals Prevention 106

Patient Safety Movement

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Each year, WHO highlights a theme to bring awareness to a specific area where urgent action is necessary to reduce preventable harm. This year’s theme is Medication Safety to underscore the need to implement measures that promote safe medication distribution to prevent medication errors and medication-related harm.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Prevention Hospitals Health Science 52

Vie Healthcare

JULY 26, 2023

It’s initiated, not as a preventative or proactive planned thing. When I was in that experience in that hospital, it was fantastic. It is not among upon discharge from the hospital. It’s initiated, not as a preventative or proactive planned thing. ” Often, how we come into your systems is events.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Nursing Doctors Healthcare 52

Patient Safety Movement

AUGUST 29, 2023

Our founder, Joe Kiani, demanded that we call people in office at the local, state, and federal levels to hardwire patient safety; and align incentives so that every hospital puts in place actionable evidence-based incentives. No one should have to endure the loss of a loved one or a catastrophic condition due to a preventable situation.

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Patient Safety Hospitals Prevention Doctors 52

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

As we began to examine patients in their home, it was obvious: why do we wait for the patient with congestive heart failure to come to the hospital? If wed been able to pick this up a week earlier, we could have prevented the acute admission to the hospital. It dawned on some of us that home is where the exam room has to be.”

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