Healthcare It News

APRIL 23, 2024

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

Financial Experience (let’s call it FX) is the next big thing in the world of patient experience and health care. Patients, as health consumers, have taken on more of the financial risk for health care payments. Patients have been much more forthcoming than hospitals, the journalists have found.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2024

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings.

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p3care

MAY 31, 2024

An ACO (Accountable Care Organization) works for the better care of patients. Consider it as a group that combines hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare specialists for the sake of providing healthcare and is a team in care decisions. So that they can focus on the quality of care by constant monitoring.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

You contend virtual primary care can amplify value in several ways. First you suggest it can provide high-touch care coordination for preventive care, chronic condition management and mental health services. You further say virtual primary care can improve access to care and improve the patient experience.

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Meditech

MAY 26, 2022

Hospital patient experience surveys, such as the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS), measure the quality of care given by a hospital, which influences patient satisfaction and retention.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In response to hospital capacity challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) collaborated with external experts to create the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCAH) initiative. Once approved, hospitals can start admitting eligible patients to receive inpatient care at home.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Hospital at Home (HaH) is a sustainable, innovative and next-generation health care model. From the physician’s perspective, it offers person-centered medical care and keeps patients out of the hospital, away from possible complications and on to better outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2022

The discounts, which will vary by the size of the hospital, are commensurate with their number of providers, visits and anticipated usage on the WELL platform, said WELL representatives. THE LARGER TREND. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Bishan Nandy, Director of Hospital Administration at UI Health Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often hailed as the frontier of technological advancement, and its impact on healthcare is profound. But the true question remains: how is AI revolutionizing the way hospitals function?

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

2020 saw three factors combine to define the future of “Hospital at Home” care in a way that will become a new care reality over the coming years. Changing Patient Attitudes. Patients became more reluctant and concerned about going to hospital s. Bringing Hospital-grade Equipment to the Home.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2024

Patient and Provider Sentiments Toward Generative AI The research indicates that nearly half of U.S. While this reflects a cautious optimism, it also highlights the importance of getting the patient experience right from the outset. consumers are comfortable with at least one generative AI application in healthcare.

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Vie Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2022

Together they discuss the challenges hospitals face in creating a positive patient experience. As Jim comments, ‘’Many patients are realizing they do have a choice…ultimately your hospital’s ability to attract new patients and retain current patients. Hint, it is also ‘’simply hard to do.’’.

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Vie Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2022

Together they discuss the challenges hospitals face in creating a positive patient experience. As Jim comments, ‘’Many patients are realizing they do have a choice…ultimately your hospital’s ability to attract new patients and retain current patients. Hint, it is also ‘’simply hard to do.’’.

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Patient Experience Nursing Hospitals Healthcare 52

Healthcare Success

MAY 1, 2023

Here are a few elements to consider when building your plan Competitive landscape Target audience Market positioning Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) analysis Budget Patient experience Strategy and tactics (e.g., Start by taking steps to improve the patient experience.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Children's Mercy Kansas City is a pediatric health system with the highest-level designations in neonatal and pediatric intensive care, trauma and emergency services, fetal health and transport services. "It was the dedication to quality, reliability and patient/provider experience that set Teladoc Health apart.

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Healthcare Success

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The healthcare industry is evolving, too, so it’s crucial to stay ahead of emerging trends—like the rise of healthcare consumerism and the intrinsic value of creating a positive patient experience—or risk falling behind your competition.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

AUGUST 17, 2021

For years, Medicare and other payers have used quality measures to evaluate the quality of care patients receive at various types of providers settings (e.g., hospital, home health agencies, skilled nursing homes). Typically, value-based payment systems include additional bonus payments for high quality providers.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. Quality of care not as good as in-person (among 67% of older people). 24% had privacy concerns.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Physicians and healthcare providers will lean more heavily into building integrative practices that include behavioral and mental health offerings, delivering a more holistic patient experience. The ability to integrate RPM data directly into patient charts within EHR systems will bolster physician productivity and quality of care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“The odds are against hospitals collecting patient balances greater than $7,500,” the report analyzing Hospital collection rates for self-pay patient accounts from Crowe concludes. Crowe benchmarked data from 1,600 hospitals and over 100,00 physicians in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Across all three medical conditions studied, videoconferencing, in particular, garnered relatively rave reviews among patients using the platform for the first time. We should expect COVID-19 to continue to accelerate this trend to “consumer-directed virtual care” and the emergence of the hospital-at-home care.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Forty-three percent of the nurses that responded to Hospital IQ ’s recent survey echoed that sentiment. Providing the necessary support is key to achieving high-quality patient care, staff satisfaction, and overall retention, along with increasing an organization’s bottom line.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2022

However, “an app for everything” mentality has significant downsides, namely a complex and disjointed patient experience – and arguably, does not result in better quality of care. An integrated, systems and requirements-driven digital approach will put the whole patient back at the center of the digital ecosystem.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2023

At the 2019 Mobile World Congress, surgeon Antonio de Lacy remotely assisted another team of surgeons and anesthetists who were performing surgery on a patient at Barcelona’s Hospital Clínic. This could be crucial for some patients who find it hard to leave their homes and visit the doctor on a regular basis.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JULY 18, 2022

Like OCM, EOM will measure value for cancer patients based on six-month episodes of care where the initiation of chemotherapy (or similar targeted therapies) will be the initiating point of the episode. The way cost savings bonuses and penalties are calculated are shown in the figures below. .”

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

"Through virtual consultations, patients meet with their surgeon as a 'meet and greet' for pre-surgical evaluation, care plan education and instruction covering the intra-hospital transfers prior to the surgery," Skrzynski explained.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Collecting patient satisfaction survey responses and benchmarking these results against industry standards helps providers identify areas in need of improvement, implement changes, and ultimately enhance the patient experience. Without it, your quality of care suffers and falls behind others.

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Patient Experience Hospitals Quality of Care Healthcare 98

HIT Consultant

APRIL 18, 2022

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.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The result is the rise of new AI-powered telemedicine tools, dramatically improving patient care when healthcare professionals are unavailable or offline or when patients are unable or unwilling to visit a clinic or hospital.

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Readiness Rounds

APRIL 26, 2018

White Plains Hospital First in the Country To Adopt Innovative System-Wide Platform To Enhance Patient Safety, Experience, and Quality of Care. New Program Takes the Hospital’s Exceptional Care to the Next Level. In today’s healthcare marketplace, patients have a choice. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.

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Readiness Rounds

APRIL 26, 2018

White Plains Hospital First in the Country To Adopt Innovative System-Wide Platform To Enhance Patient Safety, Experience, and Quality of Care. New Program Takes the Hospital’s Exceptional Care to the Next Level. In today’s healthcare marketplace, patients have a choice. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It does not, however, on its own, transform PA into a more valuable tool for care management or for reducing unnecessary variations in care. So, a valuable opportunity for health plans to further improve either quality of care is overlooked. Electronic PA is surely a good starting point, but it is not enough.

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Medicaid Medicare Quality of Care Patient Experience 98

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Essentially, CMS will evaluate home health agencies with an emphasis on the functional status of patients at the time of discharge from their agencies, as opposed to a comprehensive measure of various factors — including patient outcomes, processes of care and patient experience. Why is the list shortened?

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Rehabilitation Medicare Quality of Care Patient Experience 101

Home Health Care

AUGUST 2, 2024

Managing your entire patient population, responding quickly to patient needs and doing so without overburdening clinicians is critical, especially in a value-based landscape. Enhabit continuously evaluates new platforms and technologies that could help our organization with efficiency and quality of care,” Baker says.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

health care system for themselves and their families; but 38% of U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Fully 3 in 4 Americans said they are spending too much money for the quality of care they receive from the U.S. Consider this household health care ROI – return-on-investment. health system, the last chart notes.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

They were expected to provide a digital hub that would enable seamless communication and information sharing between providers, boost efficiency, improve the quality of care, and foster optimal patient and clinician experiences. Ultimately, the patient-provider relationship suffers, as does the quality of care.

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