Healthcare It News

JANUARY 31, 2022

"WVU Medicine's approach aimed to meet the needs of low-acuity patients with disease exposure concerns, and reducing and preventing overcrowding in emergency departments, urgent care clinics and general care clinics while also giving the reassurance and advice that patients require. " Shannon R. McAllister, WVU Medicine.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In the state of Pennsylvania, only urgent medical care was permitted for several months, which created an instant barrier to receiving routine, follow-up and preventive care. A patient recently discharged from the hospital can follow up with their primary care provider effectively through a video visit and avoid another trip.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Etactics

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

However, allowing them to slide by and not becoming proactive in preventing them can lead to an eventual overflow of the same problems. For instance, hospitals might bill certain services differently than primary care providers. A recent study found that mistakes on hospital bills cost them approximately $68 billion annually!

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CiscoHealth

JUNE 2, 2021

Established in 2006, Medcare Hospitals & Medical Centres is a healthcare network based in the United Arab Emirates. Comprised of four hospitals and 15 medical centres, as well as four more centres opening this year, the multicultural network provides preventive, curative, and rehabilitative healthcare globally.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For example, AI can facilitate real-time monitoring of patients, enabling healthcare professionals to make more informed and timely decisions, thus reducing hospital readmissions and improving patient outcomes. Another understated benefit is AI’s ability to act as a second set of eyes, checking for mistakes or misreadings.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Within the first three weeks of the WHO declaring the COVID-19 pandemic , telehealth visits skyrocketed 154 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compared to the same time period just one year prior. Hospital-Psychiatric Unit. Physician/Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 30, 2021

Currently, CommonSpirit Health operates more than 1,000 care sites and 142 hospitals across 21 states. ACOs bring together doctors, hospitals and other care providers to work together and provide coordinated care for Medicare patients. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). On average, CommonSpirit’s ACOs saved Medicare $9.3

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 10, 2022

The submission deadline for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), and Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Programs is approaching. Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. All data must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. on August 15, 2022.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 23, 2022

PEPPER facilitates the prioritization of areas on which a hospital or facility may want to focus auditing and monitoring efforts. Hospitals and facilities are encouraged to conduct regular audits to ensure that medical necessity for admission and treatment is documented and that bills submitted for Medicare services are correct.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2021

– Dr. Fuchs, who will lead the Department in creating an “Intelligent Fabric” that will integrate machine learning and AI-driven decision-making throughout the Health System’s eight hospitals. The MSDW team offers a list of data services to access custom data sets, custom data marts, and de-identified data.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 21, 2023

But they are not able to provide visibility into the potential physical and psychological impacts surrounding mobility, fall risk, and need for rehabilitation. It is already being used to reflect frailty status – identifying increased risks of adverse events such as falls, prolonged hospital stays, and overall functional decline.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2025

Needless to say, the hockey-stick consumer adoption and use of GLP-1 medicines has also shifted health consumers’ shopping basket behaviors in the grocery store and other adjacent sectors in apparel, travel and hospitality, and home furnishings (covered often here in Health Populi).

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

DispatchHealth Raises $330M for Hospital-at-Home Care. The collaboration will enable providers to monitor and engage their patients before, during, and after hospitalization using digital, evidence-informed pre-and post-care plans – such as for surgery, cancer, maternity, mental health, and chronic care.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Within the first three weeks of the WHO declaring the COVID-19 pandemic , telehealth visits skyrocketed 154 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compared to the same time period just one year prior. Hospital-Psychiatric Unit. Physician/Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.

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NCQA

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

NYC Health + Hospitals leaders Dr. Eric Wei and Dr. Ted Long, discuss hospital worker burnout, including suicide , and the need for awareness, mitigation and prevention. Eric Wei Dr. Ted Long On this episode of Inside Health Care, we offer two interviews. The post Inside Health Care #99: Dr.

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CiscoHealth

JUNE 2, 2021

Established in 2006, Medcare Hospitals & Medical Centres is a healthcare network based in the United Arab Emirates. Comprised of four hospitals and 15 medical centres, as well as four more centres opening this year, the multicultural network provides preventive, curative, and rehabilitative healthcare globally.

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NASHP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The funding prioritized expanding state hospital capacity, enhancing childrens mental health and school safety, and increasing access to community-based services such as crisis intervention. million to increase salaries at state hospitals to address staffing shortages and reduce forensic waitlists; $23.9 This included $134.7

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Icanotes

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

While the stigma around seeking therapy and other types of treatment for these conditions is much milder than in the past, some people with serious mental illnesses may require rehabilitation. If you're a behavioral health professional, you know documentation is imperative to successful psychiatric rehabilitation program intake and discharge.

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Sheppard Health Law

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The declaration of the PHE is currently set to expire on October 15 th. However, it is likely to be renewed for another 90 days. The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, has stated that CMS will provide 60-days’ notice prior to ending the PHE.

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Healthcare Success

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For example, addiction treatment centers might recognize a growing need for families, spouses, or parents to come together and support one another while their loved ones attend your rehabilitation program. Hospitals are focusing on staff recruitment as much as lead generation in 2022. Add staff recruitment into the marketing budget.

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Icanotes

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Those living with co-occurring disorders will benefit from a collaborative team of case managers, therapists, psychiatrists, nurses and rehabilitation specialists who cross-train each other on a patient's progress for a continuum of care.

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NASHP

JUNE 12, 2023

Plans vary in their level of specificity, with some outlining broad strategies or priorities while granting an agency authority to make specific funding allocations, and others designating money to individual prevention, treatment, recovery, or harm reduction programs and other abatement priorities.

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Bill Of Health

APRIL 19, 2023

When kids are transferred into the adult criminal justice system, opportunities for rehabilitation are significantly limited. They are not at all centered-on rehabilitation. The unwillingness to follow the science combined with a cultural commitment to punishment has really prevented us from making smart choices.”

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The Best Nursing Homes ratings highlight nursing homes that excel in short-term rehabilitation and long-term care needs. This year, newly available data on weekend staffing and infection rates that led to hospitalizations provides even more information about how nursing homes rate when it comes to the safety of their residents.”.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

progress in preventing several important healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in Acute Care Hospitals (ACHs). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released the 2022 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Progress Report. The year 2022 showed U.S. Click here to continue reading…

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NCQA

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

To make matters worse, the medicines prescribed for agitation led to delirium as a side effect, prompting a hospitalization. Despite the many tests she received—at the nursing facility, in the hospital and at a rehabilitation center—she did not receive a proper neurologic evaluation until I personally arranged one months later.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2019

Whether for drug discovery, preventing hospital readmissions, making sound human resource decisions, or addressing population health challenges, Big Data are flowing into more cognitive systems to mine information and inform clinicians’ decisions at the point of care and researchers’ ongoing search for better treatments.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Changes in SIRs among acute care hospitals from 2020 to 2021 include: 14% increase in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia. Changes in SIRs among acute care hospitals from 2020 to 2021 include: 14% increase in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia. 3% decrease in C. difficile infection.

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Health Care Success

MARCH 22, 2022

However, I’d argue patient engagement also includes patients motivated to go beyond mere learning and instead take action in their own lives to make healthy lifestyle choices, prioritize wellness, and take advantage of preventive health services. retail, hospitality, eCommerce, etc.). . retail, hospitality, eCommerce, etc.). .

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 4, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The submission deadline for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), and Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Programs is approaching.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 14, 2023

The series of 10–15-minute videos are tailored to provider types and aim to reduce the deficiencies most commonly cited during the CMS survey process, like infection control and accident prevention. Reducing these common deficiencies increases the quality of care for people with Medicare and Medicaid.

Physical Therapy 52

Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Medicaid Quality of Care 52

Briggs Healthcare

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The submission deadline for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), and Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Programs is approaching.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The submission deadline for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), and Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Programs is approaching. Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare.

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Etactics

JUNE 29, 2023

This coverage is good for: Hospital inpatient care. After a hospital stay, a doctor may decide to send their patient to a SNF to receive specialized nursing care. The patient has a qualifying inpatient hospital stay. More specifically, the patient was in the hospital for at least three consecutive days. Nursing home care.

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Etactics

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Preventing denial codes is essential if you want to keep a steady revenue flow. This is an easily preventable billing error, which we are going to go over in this blog. C Codes - Temporary outpatient hospital prospective payment system. H Codes - Rehabilitative services. 99397 - Preventive exam (over the age 65).

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Medicare Medicaid Medical Services Prevention 52

Etactics

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center HIPAA Criminal Penalties Tier 1 Tier 1 Example - Jeffrey Luke Tier 2 Tier 2 Example - Jennifer Lynne Bacor Tier 3 Tier 3 Example - Stacy Lavette Hendricks Conclusion. Category 1 Example - Blabbermouth (Possible Scenario) Imagine that you’re a security guard who works for a rehabilitation center.

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