Hospital mergers led to diminished quality of care, Elevance study finds
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 2, 2023
The study from the Blues payer is the latest finding hospital acquisitions lead to increased readmissions and higher costs for patients.
Quality of Care at Teaching Hospitals
Healthcare ECONOMIST
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Medicare pays higher reimbursement to teaching hospitals through indirect medical education (IME) payments to hospitals that train a high share of residents. IME inflate standard reimbursements in an attempt to compensate hospitals for these additional costs. Findings on other dimensions of relative quality are mixed.
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Covenant Health advances hospital-at-home program
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Covenant Health expanded its high acuity care hospital-at-home program in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Tuesday. As many as 20-30% of the Knoxville-based health system's patients could receive virtual care through the program. "The food is better, and I can be around my family," Slone said.
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The IT strategy behind a groundbreaking new $2B pediatric hospital
Healthcare It News
MAY 6, 2024
Blank Hospital is scheduled to open this September. It is one of the largest and most advanced pediatric hospitals in the world. Blank Hospital. What was the overarching health IT strategy that went into creating the hospital from the ground up? Blank Hospital opening in September. Blank Hospital.
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University Hospitals puts a bow on new Epic EHR rollout
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Cleveland-based University Hospitals this week announced that it had completed its years-long migration to a single Epic electronic health record across its care sites. THE LARGER TREND University Hospitals joins several other major health systems nationwide that have made the full-on switch to an all-Epic system.
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MA enrollees have fewer hospitalizations, Harvard study finds
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries have better quality of care and health outcomes than traditional fee-for-service counterparts, researchers from Harvard Medical School found.
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Patients of color disproportionately suffer adverse health events, regardless of hospital safety ratings
Health Care Dive
JUNE 7, 2023
Rather than suggesting problems with individual hospitals, the data points to a “systemic issue impacting the quality of care for Black and Hispanic patients and those with public insurance plans,” according to a new Leapfrog report.
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Under Two-Sided Risk Models, Quality Of Care Increases Compared To FFS Medicare
Home Health Care
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Data examinations are beginning to shed greater insight on just how much better value-based payment models are for quality of care. When comparing two-sided risk models in Medicare Advantage (MA) versus fee-for-service Medicare programs, the former performed better in all eight quality-of-care metrics.
Does the 340B program improve quality of care?
Healthcare ECONOMIST
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
2023 , the answer is ‘no’ The authors use data from AHRQ’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Inpatient Data, Hospital Cost Reporting Information System Data, Office of Pharmacy Affairs Information System Data, and American Hospital Association Annual Survey for 15 states between 2008 to 2014.
Srisawan Hospital pursues further digitalisation through partnerships with GE Healthcare, InterSystems
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Srisawan Hospital, a private tertiary healthcare provider in Thailand, is stepping up on its digitalisation efforts to further raise its quality of care provision and hospital experience. Meanwhile, the TrakCare implementation is also being planned for its Nakhon Sawan hospital soon. WHY IT MATTERS.
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How hospitals should engage in the 'information war'
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
A report out this week from Boston Digital examines the role that original digital libraries of health topics can play in hospitals' web-traffic performance. hospitals, as ranked by U.S. available on the hospital’s top-level domain. Among the top 20 U.S. They should be: comprehensive. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.
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FTC tells states to avoid shielding hospital mergers from antitrust enforcement
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 16, 2022
A report released Monday compiles research that shows arrangements, called Certificates of Public Advantage, result in higher prices, lower quality of care and lower wage growth for employees.
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Compliantly supercharge your hospital’s bottom line
Health Care Dive
JUNE 3, 2024
Transforming your hospital's Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) program from a cost center to a strategic center can enhance financial performance, mitigate risks and improve overall quality of care.
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Are hospital quality metrics causal?
Healthcare ECONOMIST
DECEMBER 19, 2023
2023 found that Johns Hopkins Hospital had to report 162 unique quality metrics, and the cost for collecting these data were over $5.6m actual quality differences are as large as quality indicators suggest) Chandra et al. 2023) aim to test whether hospital quality metrics meet these two criteria. plus $0.6m
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The Corporatization of Independent Hospitals
Healthcare ECONOMIST
OCTOBER 25, 2023
The abstract is below: Between 2000 and 2020, the share of US hospital bed capacity under multi-unit firms (systems) increased from 58% to 81% – a rapid corporatization of a sector with $1.3 However, little is known about how system ownership affects hospital profitability and quality. trillion in annual spend.
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Johns Hopkins Hospital Launches Smartphone-Based Would Care Pilot Program
HIT Consultant
MARCH 7, 2024
This pilot program expands access to Healthy.io’s Minuteful for Wound solution to patients in the division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy department at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Utilizing New Patient-Facing Technology to Improve Wound Care Management The CDC reports that over 37.3
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Healthcare applications for private cellular networks
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Today, many hospitals rely on Wi-Fi and public cellular for connectivity even though the limits of current Wi-Fi solutions are being reached. The mandates of improving quality of care and lowering costs mean that hospital IT directors should consider deploying new, private 5G networks.
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Quality Measurement of German Hospitals
Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 11, 2023
Public reporting of hospital quality of care could improve the care patients receive through at least two pathways. First, patients (or their physicians) could send patients to higher quality hospitals (i.e., A key question is, how well does public reporting of quality of care actually improve outcomes.
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Israel’s Largest Acute Hospital Deploys AI-Based Triage in ED
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 7, 2023
What You Should Know: Ichilov Hospital, Israel’s largest acute-care facility Tel Aviv launches an AI-based triage pilot integration in its Sourasky Medical Center Emergency Department with Kahun , an evidence-based clinical reasoning tool for physicians. David Seltzer, VP of Emergency Medicine at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
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ACO Reporting- A Patient-Centered Approach
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. This becomes a specific reason for comprehensible improvements in patient care.
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Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 10, 2023
The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. THE LARGER TREND. Email: afox@himss.org.
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Ligature Risk and Assessment in Hospitals  Â
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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Why Hospitals with Nearby Home Health Agencies Have Higher Readmission Rates
Home Health Care
JULY 5, 2022
A new study from researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that hospitals with a greater local supply of home health agencies were associated with increased readmissions. Hospital readmissions are regularly viewed as an indicator of the quality of care patients receive.
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The Hospital Readmission Reduction Program: An Overview
Health Recovery
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Launched over a decade ago, the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) is a Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) initiative to reduce unnecessary readmissions and improve the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries.
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Legislative Recap on Hospital and Health System Costs: States Seek to Address Consolidation
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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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars
KHN
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.
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Bot MD powers data collection, enhances doctor experience in Indonesia
Healthcare It News
MARCH 17, 2023
WHAT IT'S ABOUT The startup signed a memorandum of understanding with Siloam Hospitals Group to automate and scale patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) across its hospital chain by powering Siloam's WhatsApp with the Bot MD Care AI chatbot.
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What Hospital Success Looks Like Under Value-Based Care
HIT Consultant
JUNE 22, 2022
Hospitals are increasingly turning to value-based care initiatives to transform care delivery, lower the total cost of care, and improve patient outcomes. the number of patient visits), providers are reimbursed based on the quality of care delivered in value-based care. Reduce hospital admissions.
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Speedoc to deliver home healthcare for Parkway Shenton
Healthcare It News
JULY 13, 2023
Based on a press release, Parkway Shenton looks to roll out 24/7 doctor and nurse house calls, remote health monitoring, as well as, medical consultations and hospital-level care at home for patients.
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Getting the basics of digitalisation down with webPAS
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 17, 2023
The patient administration system is one of the most critical foundational digital systems for individual hospitals or broader hospital jurisdictions. With over 252 hospital implementations, Dedalus' webPAS provides absolute confidence that your PAS foundation is deep, broad, and proven.
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HLTH22: LG Launches Virtual Care Solution with Amwell to Address Hospital Workforce Shortages
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
What You Should Know : – Global innovator LG Electronics announced its first joint solution with digital healthcare enablement leader Amwell® , designed to expand the boundaries of digital health innovation and address a major issue faced by hospitals across the country – workforce shortages.
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OSF deploys care transition program, reduces readmission rate from 29% to 9%
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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Impact of the DRG system on hospital length of stay
Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 17, 2022
In many countries including the US and England, hospitals are paid by payers (i.e., as the diagnosis-related group (DRG) system, since DRGs are used to assess admission severity and also hospital reimbursement levels. The hospital is paid a fixed, nationally set, price for each patient in each HRG.
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The Patient As the Payer: Self-Pay, Bad Debt, and the Erosion of Hospital Finances
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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Is It Finally Time for Hospital-at-Home or is Time Up?
HIT Consultant
MAY 31, 2022
All the signs point to a bright and expansive future for hospital-at-home programs, which have been growing steadily since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) created the Acute Hospital at Home waiver program in November 2020. Patients are also less likely to be readmitted to the hospital. History and Drivers.
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Critical Challenges and Solutions for Inpatient Capacity Management, Report Reveals
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 21, 2024
By leveraging AI and data-driven insights, healthcare providers can optimize their resources, improve patient outcomes, and enhance the overall quality of care. Historical approaches to managing inpatient capacity such as manual workflows have reached their limits and are not designed for long-term success.
High-Quality Hospital Care — Minus the Hospital
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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CommonSpirit still working to restore EHR systems after ransomware attack confirmed
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 14, 2022
A major ransomware attack at CommonSpirit Health has been disrupting medical operations across several states for nearly two weeks , leaving the Chicago-based health system scrambling to maintain patient care while it conducts a forensics investigation and works to bring its electronic health record systems back online. WHY IT MATTERS.
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How to Reduce Hospital Readmissions with Telehealth & RPM
Health Recovery
DECEMBER 3, 2021
Hospital readmissions are expensive and affect every part of the healthcare ecosystem, from providers to payers to patients. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), hospital readmission rates are as high as 14%, costing $15,200 on average per readmission.
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Hospital at Home: Aligning Provider Needs with Patient Wishes
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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Western Australia pursuing healthcare generative AI and more briefs
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 19, 2023
"This technology involves uncertainties and risks, but also has the potential to dramatically increase efficiency, improve the quality of care, and create value for health care organisations," WA Medical Research Minister Stephen Dawson said about generative AI.
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Protecting Seniors and People with Disabilities by Improving Safety and Quality of Care in the Nation’s Nursing Homes
Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 1, 2022
more likely to experience a preventable hospitalization, when compared to residents of for-profit nursing homes not associated with private equity. These initiatives will help ensure adequate staffing, dignity and safety in their accommodations, and quality care. Establish a Minimum Nursing Home Staffing Requirement.
17 Executive Hospital/Health System Predictions to Watch in 2023
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 12, 2023
As the financial markets turned south, many institutions saw their investment income stagnate, reducing the support it historically provided to hospitals’ thin operating margins. Patient safety and quality of care will continue to be impacted by the quality of data available to clinicians for diagnosing and treating patients.
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COVID-19 Impacts and Outcomes on Hospital Margins in 2021: Increased Activity in Hospital Transactions in 2022?
Sheppard Health Law
JANUARY 10, 2022
In its December Hospital Flash Report , Kaufman Hall identified and reviewed the continued, negative impact of COVID-19 on hospital operating margins. Overall, hospital margins remain significantly narrower than they were in 2019, before the pandemic. 2021 Hospital Margin and Operational Overview.
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