Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

These environments will showcase the end-to-end care pathway from smart ambulances, control centres, hospital wards, General Practices (GPs) consultation rooms to care homes. The service harnesses the adaptability of mobile devices to allow doctors and hospitals to provide more virtual visits and consultations.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

A big chunk of telemedicine technology and services company Teladoc Health's business is in primary care. 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.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Emory Healthcare’s Population Health Collaborative is aligning with Guidehealth to accelerate performance of quality of care and overall health outcomes across its clinics and network. Its reach extends through partnerships with six regional affiliate hospitals, St.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

He urged OHA to prevent any further changes in the ownership, license or administration over Providence health care entities, including home health and hospice agency licensures, while OHA reviews whether the proposed joint venture must go through the HCMO process.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 1, 2022

This allows emergency medicine provider care to be rendered at the EMS scene, preventing unnecessary transport and expense for minor conditions and first responder consultation for complicated conditions. Patient adoption requires having a frictionless user experience that delivers a high quality of care.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Hugh Cassidy, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Chief Data Scientist at LeanTaaS The costs of care are rising, and with them, the pressure on healthcare systems to manage resources effectively. Inquire about the safety protocols in place to prevent the AI from making critical mistakes, particularly in high-stakes situations.

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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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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2025

This capability helps flag individuals at risk of chronic conditions like heart disease or diabetes, allowing for earlier intervention and preventive strategies that improve outcomes and reduce costs. Physicians can then intervene earlier with preventive measures, improving patient outcomes while reducing healthcare costs.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Population health management has become an important competency for hospitals and health systems. Overall health depends on ensuring that patients get timely, medically appropriate preventive care and that patients with chronic conditions are proactively followed to prevent future complications.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 22, 2025

In a fee-for-service health system, Medicare beneficiaries who qualify for home health care often receive inadequate and uncoordinated care for their chronic health conditions, according to ATI Advisory. How the expanded HHVBP model affects HHAs The expanded HHVBP model aims to improve the quality and efficiency of home health care.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 4, 2022

Care coordination is becoming increasingly important in U.S. healthcare for a variety of reasons, including the increased use of value-based care models, the behavioral care shortage and a boom in home healthcare. Care coordination challenges exist not just in the transition from hospital to home but also in the reverse.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 28, 2022

These are the questions Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth, Mississippi, asked as part of an initiative to improve outcomes for congestive heart failure patients, who are the highest source of the hospital's readmissions. " To keep CHF patients out of the hospital, adherence to these medications is critical.

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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? What’s the Next Step for My Hospital? Understanding these measures will help your hospital align operations with the latest best practices in geriatric care.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care. According to Avalere Health , nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today.

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p3care

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

134 Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for Depression and Follow-up Plan. Hospital-Wide, for 30 days; All-Cause Unplanned Readmission (HWR) (administrative claims). Quality of Care by ACOs. The idea behind ACOs is to improve the quality of healthcare with collective efforts. 321 CAHPS for MIPS Survey.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2025

By providing physicians with the resources and support they need, Vytalize Health aims to enable them to: Manage complex patients effectively: Integrate pharmacists, social workers, and care managers into a virtual clinic model to provide comprehensive support for patients with complex needs.

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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. Patients became more reluctant and concerned about going to hospital s. Increasing The Quality of Care at Home Without Adding to The Burden. Medical Economics.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Health care systems are focused on providing cost-effective, high-quality care that reduces hospitalizations and prevents complications, Anderson explained. Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED), one of the nations largest home health providers, also has seen increased demand for more sophisticated wound care.

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Geek Doctor

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Cultural change has modified patient expectations for the care they can get at a distance, which can be more convenient, less likely to result in COVID exposure, and more patient-centric. 1] One of the most progressive programs to focus on this transition was spearheaded by Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1994.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Primary care doctors and specialists. It consists of.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Primary care doctors and specialists. It consists of.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The six virtual care programs are as follows. First, Urgent Care Telehealth. As a result, staff anticipate realizing higher quality of care outcomes in these two patient populations.

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p3care

OCTOBER 30, 2020

For instance, CMS asks physicians to focus on the quality of care rather than the volume of patients. However, with the pandemic, there was no choice left other than catering to the volume of patients while being careful and value-driven to every extent possible. Diabetes: Hemoglobin A1c Poor Control.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 16, 2023

A caregiver incentive program that increases caregiver productivity and retention while preventing caregiver burnout and improving quality of care for patients. An online occupational health solution that provides primary care health benefits for employees. – Perry. – Vitable Health. – Remote Focus.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 11, 2022

The World Health Organization (WHO) posted its first ever Global Report on Infection Prevention and Control – Executive Summary on May 6, 2022. This document provides a detailed summary of the content of the WHO global report on infection prevention and control (IPC). This is a 30-page document.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

States enacted legislation on the following topics: facility fees; health care market oversight and certificate of need; competition; community benefits; transparency and oversight; surprise billing; and 340B transparency. Minnesota and Illinois laws include transaction notice requirements and attorney general review/investigation authority.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 2, 2024

According to Matt Kroll, practice president of Assistive Care & Assistive Care State Programs at Bayada Home Health Care, despite challenges, Bayada has found that EVV helps prevent false claims. “It While EVV aims to streamline and enhance transparency, the transition and implementation phase continues to be arduous.”

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ultimately, the model will test whether global payments for the healthcare needs of a population will lead to care delivery transformation and improved quality of care and lower costs for rural Pennsylvanians. Which hospitals have joined the program? Hospitals perceived this as an important Model feature.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 6, 2022

When it comes to home health, location factors heavily into the quality of care patients receive. Agencies in rural areas tend to initiate care more quickly, for example, while their urban counterparts perform better on outcomes measures, a new study suggests. Overall, rural agencies outperform on timely initiation of care.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 17, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted QSO-23-19-Hospitals this morning (July 17, 2023). Medicare-certified hospitals have a regulatory obligation to care for patients in a safe setting under the Medicare Hospital Conditions of Participation at §482.13(c)(2).

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 22, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Before the COVID-19 pandemic led to devastating consequences in nursing homes, infections were a leading cause of hospitalization and death among nursing home residents. GAO also interviewed officials from CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Resilient is a Plano, Texas-based home-centered management services organization that works with home health providers on hospital-at-home and care management services. Samuel identified two key areas where health care providers can take on risk, reduce costs and increase the quality of care.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The patient had developed gangrene in the wound and was transported to a hospital. The result of amputation resulted in significantly higher expense to Medicare than paying for adequate wound care wound cost. Home health is a great program that allows for significant improvement in patient outcomes while decreasing hospitalization.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 30, 2024

Value-based care seeks to improve health outcomes by leveraging the Quintuple Aim framework – focusing on the patient experience, population health success, cost reduction, team wellbeing, and health equity.

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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 helps staff save time from manual checks, which can be an asset in mitigating overworked staff and preventing burnout.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But even an innocent mistake can cause well-intentioned hospitals and health systems to attract attention from federal auditors, and result in stiff penalties for physicians and those who input the wrong billing codes. Physicians should emphasize their value in terms of patient outcomes, quality of care, and cost-effectiveness.

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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.

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