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Impact of hospital mergers on quality: a case study

Healthcare ECONOMIST

There is mixed evidence about whether hospital mergers improve quality. 2022) investigates the impact of a recent hospital merger on quality in New York. The merging hospitals were described as follows: NYU Langone Health (NYULH) is an urban academic medical system. A recent paper by Wang et al.

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Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid

NASHP

in hospitals, embedded within enhanced primary care, via home health). of hospitalized patients receive an initial palliative care consultation, although roughly half of hospitalizations nationwide are for those with multiple chronic conditions. Other rehabilitative services and supports (e.g., Pharmacist.

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9 Major Patient Engagement Trends to Embrace in 2022

Health Care Success

While many businesses long for a return to pre-COVID normal, savvy healthcare organizations and health systems embrace virtual and digital services that champion a patient engagement future that exceeds expectations in our new reality. Success with “patient experience” is far deeper than just making patients happy.

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The Critical Shift in ASC EHR Adoption: Overcoming Barriers

HIT Consultant

The EHR is the best way to support the immediate and long-term trajectory of a patient’s health by allowing for more efficient information gathering and information analysis along the continuum of care, including preventive care, through medical incidents, rehabilitation and maintenance. About Maura Cash.

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As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

Health Populi

To stay relevant in this future scenario of more virtual and retail health channels, a plurality of health providers would consider aligning with various non-hospital healthcare providers such as skilled nursing facilities, outpatient centers, retail clinics, home health agencies, acute rehabilitation, and hospice agencies.

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Telehealth, physical therapy and the pandemic: Lessons for all

Healthcare It News

A rehab-at-home strategy lets health systems and orthopedic groups bring outpatient PT treatment to patients in lieu of forcing them to travel twice a week, in some cases more than five miles away, to obtain post-operative care. We have been able to integrate technology on a personalized basis to achieve the outcomes that the patient desires.

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ProMedica Health doubles inpatient virtual service lines, expediting specialty care

Healthcare It News

A common clinical need across the health system's footprint is how to continue patients' access to critically important specialty-based care, both for chronic condition management in the ambulatory setting and for acute care needs within the hospital setting. The telemedicine technologies staff proposed were twofold.