Healthcare It News

JULY 29, 2022

Patient engagement SaaS provider PatientBond and healthcare performance improvement and analytics company Vizient are partnering up to provide Vizient member healthcare organizations with digital patient engagement and behavior change programs. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Nordic

AUGUST 12, 2024

Through a scalable, flexible, and holistic performance improvement approach, Nordic helped a large hospital system in Texas accelerate cash flow, decrease labor costs, train staff, and enhance efficiency.

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Readiness Rounds

AUGUST 28, 2023

How Patient Satisfaction (HCAHPS) is Impacted by the Hospital’s Physical Environment Patient satisfaction and HCAHPS improvements go far beyond medical expertise or outcome. The hospital environment plays a pivotal role in shaping a patient's (and visitors) experience and overall satisfaction.

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p3care

MAY 31, 2024

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. They aim to improve your health by ensuring that you get custom care according to your needs while cutting costs.

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Readiness Rounds

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In today’s blog post we're discussing how Rise & Shine–our latest regulatory compliance solution–can help hospitals deal with the tightened CMS rules on unannounced visits. This approach helps reduce findings, improves patient safety, and supports sustainable performance improvement. Headlines: 1. Key Takeaways 5.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Performance Improvement: Identifying areas for improvement in care delivery and patient outcomes. Key Areas of Focus in VBC Consulting The survey identified eight key areas where VBC consulting firms assist healthcare organizations: Strategy Development: Creating a roadmap for transitioning to VBC and achieving desired outcomes.

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Nordic

JUNE 26, 2023

KaufmanHall’s Operating Margin Index (Figure 1) highlights the financial crisis hospitals are in today and how these razor thin margins are becoming the new norm in a post-pandemic environment. 1 Figure 1: Kaufman Hall Operating Margin Index YTD by Month

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 14, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Q4FY22 release of the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) with statistics through September 2022 is now available for download through the PEPPER Resources Portal.

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Osf Healthcare

JULY 13, 2021

After an inpatient hospital stay, many individuals are eager to get home as soon as possible, but the process for discharge is no easy feat. Performance Improvement, with OSF Innovation, partnered with OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center to create collaboration within the care team and optimize the process.

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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. About White Plains Hospital. High Reliability” Initiative Ensures Consistency Across the Board. 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. About White Plains Hospital. High Reliability” Initiative Ensures Consistency Across the Board. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.

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Readiness Rounds

DECEMBER 4, 2024

How Will CMS 2025 Affect My Hospital? How Can We Improve Quality and Patient Outcomes? What Are the Steps for Integration into Quality Improvement? How Can We Improve Data Management and Staff Training? How Can We Improve Mobility for Older Adults? What’s the Next Step for My Hospital?

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Readiness Rounds

AUGUST 14, 2023

In hospitals, where patient experience is important and quality of care is non-negotiable, a subtle yet profound practice has emerged as a catalyst for positive change: Executive Leadership Rounds. Unpacking Leadership Rounds: Leadership Rounds is a dynamic practice in hospitals that brings leaders, staff, and together.

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2023

Episode Introduction As hospitals struggle with spiraling costs, Lisa Miller reveals seven key ways to save money in the next 12 months. So I feel like that’s an innovation for hospitals. But I want to give you one more nuanced thought….Could … my number one advice is to pull those projects together…. Innovative positions.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Since CMS standardized it in 2018, Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement program, or QAPI, has served as a guiding light for home-based care providers. If a provider knows they need to focus on reducing acute-care hospitalizations, for instance, QAPI can help them do so. This makes it a highly effective approach.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 10, 2023

At-Home Health Care — Sparta Community Hospital’s home health segment — has made successful care transitions a priority in an effort to lower rehospitalizations and ER visits. Sparta Community Hospital is located in Southern Illinois and is a 25-bed full-service acute care medical facility.

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Osf Healthcare

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Nationwide, death and re-hospitalization rates remain high among people with heart failure who have transitioned from in-patient to out-patient care. As a result, OSF HealthCare has made it a priority to reduce its own mortality and readmission rates among this population using innovative methods and collaborative thinking. “We

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

a leading healthcare performance improvement company, has released its latest Pharmacy Market Outlook , projecting a 3.8% What You Should Know: – Vizient, Inc., growth in drug price inflation. “Managing pharmacy expenditures and strengthening the supply chain is more important than ever.” ”

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2024

The American Hospital Association (AHA) warned that many providers will be unable to meet payroll due to financial strain caused by the attack. February’s cyberattack reminded providers that actions entirely outside their control can negatively impact operations.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Between 2019 and 2022 alone, overall hospital expenses surged by 17.5%, while hospital labor costs grew by 20.8%, according to a recent report from the American Hospital Association.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

CoRead Acquisition The company also finalized the acquisition of CoRead, a leading AI quality assurance company currently being used by more than 2,000 hospital sites nationwide. Lawrence Ngo, former CEO of CoRead, will join Covera Health as Senior Vice President, Quality Assurance Platform, reporting to President Aaron Friedkin.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 13, 2021

News & World Report Best Hospitals, and Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades. For the organization, measurement-based care is the opportunity to assess the effectiveness of programming and interventions as a key component of ongoing performance improvement initiatives, he said. THE PROBLEM. " RESULTS.

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NASHP

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In January, for the first time in its history, the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC)’s Board voted to require the Mass General Brigham (MGB) health system to submit a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) because of the system’s substantial contributions to the state’s health care cost increases.

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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

After discussion with IDPH, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) also established a prenatal and postpartum care HEDIS (Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) measure performance improvement project for Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) to identify and close a health disparity gap.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 26, 2023

The only way we are going to enable real performance improvements and address critical issues like clinician shortages and burnout is if we simplify and streamline workflows for clinicians. Many agreed that hospitals are only taking advantage of a small percentage of the multi-million-dollar systems available to them.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 1, 2022

Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs) are a new provider type established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 to address the growing concern over closures of rural hospitals. Critical Access Hospitals. For more information on Rural Emergency Hospital and Critical Access Hospital Conditions of Participation, visit: [link].

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 9, 2022

What You Should Know: – Medtronic announced a new contract with Vizient , a leading healthcare performance improvement company for more than half the nation’s healthcare providers, to offer Touch Surgery™? Vizient contract provides access to a nationwide network of hospitals.

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Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 3, 2021

On November 12, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) revised and finalized draft guidance first issued on May 3, 2019, for co-location of hospitals with other hospitals or healthcare providers [1] (the “ Finalized Guidance ”). The Finalized Guidance also makes significant changes to the guidelines for staffing.

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Vie Healthcare

AUGUST 10, 2022

Founded in 1999, VIE Healthcare Consulting provides leading-edge financial and operational consulting for hospitals, healthcare institutions, and other providers of patient care. ” Existing VIE clients will benefit from an expanded menu of services as a result of the acquisition.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Acumen and Abt are convening this TEP to evaluate the measurement sets across the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), Home Health (HH), and Hospice settings, with a focus on identifying measurement gaps, and ensuring measures align with CMS program requirements and goals.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Peter started his career in health policy but has spent more than 20 years in revenue cycle performance improvement. He has worked with a variety of hospital and physician clients, including prominent academic medical centers and local community hospitals, to deliver measurable financial improvements through operational changes.

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Home Health Care

MAY 15, 2022

The IAC provides research, analytics, health policy analysis and performance improvement collaboratives for the ACO industry. Instead, it’s usually home-based primary care, home-based care coordination, transition to home, social needs care and hospital-level home care.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

. – Together, utilizing the cloud, Dedalus and AWS will offer customers around the world cost-optimization and agility via smart provisioning and need-based elasticity, built-in disaster recovery, as well as improved clinical system performance, reliability, availability, and security and compliance posture.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

This convergence of negative patient experience scores, employee burnout, and lost revenue is, unsurprisingly, keeping hospital and health system leaders up at night. To date, the majority of patient engagement has been driven by hospital, health system and provider priorities. Now it’s time to ask what the patient wants to do.

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Readiness Rounds

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Well Screen , the entrance management technology used to screen 10 million staff and visitors per year by hospitals and healthcare systems on-site is now available via a mobile application. The Power of Well Screen’s Automated Entrance Management System Goes Mobile for Online Screenings and Check-ins. November 19 , 2021, Eudora, Ks.—

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NASHP

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The legislation updated reimbursements for rural health clinics and set reimbursement for certified community behavioral health clinic providers in alternative payment arrangements. Pennsylvania reauthorized the Rural Health Redesign Center Authority that administers Pennsylvania’s global budget model for rural hospitals.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Episode Introduction Zach explains why the lack of timely, accurate data can delay recovery of credits, and why most hospitals only have 50% visibility into their spend and accounts payable processes. Dark data is information that is hidden or not visible to a hospital for a variety of reasons. Again, due to lack of time and resources.

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