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UConn Health squares away CMS audit trail and more with digital health platform

Healthcare It News

"Throughout the process, the digital care management approach captures holistic, contextual data, creating a more meaningful, measurable and even predictive view for better patient care and outcomes," he added. Another aspect of this approach is reimbursement. "We will follow these trends as more data is gathered over time.

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A Practical Approach to CMS 2025 Age-Friendly Measures

Readiness Rounds

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 Address What Matters to Patients? What Changes Are Needed in Data Collection and Reporting? What is the 4Ms Framework?

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ACO Reporting- A Patient-Centered Approach

p3care

Quality Benchmarks ACOs report on multiple quality measures for the effectiveness of care quality. For instance, patient and caregiver experience, care coordination, and patient safety. Patient Experience Patient satisfaction level and their experiences are necessary components.

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How Hospitals Can Overcome the Challenges of Diabetes Management

HIT Consultant

Despite an unwavering commitment to well-being and safety, these facilities are overwhelmed by a growing number of priorities and hampered by a shrinking labor force – which hamstrings their ability to implement a plan for success. The time for change is now.

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Voices: Beth Ann Longo, Associate Director, Department of Research, The Joint Commission

Home Health Care

How did you measure the quality of that data and quantify those values in a comparable and accessible way? Longo : There are nearly 11,000 home health agencies that report data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The data are publicly available and include the CMS star ratings.

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CAPS at Work

CAPS

CAPS provided Patient and Family Engagement technical support to the Hospital Engagement Networks (2012-2015) and Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (2015-2020) programs and the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (2015-2019). PFE Metric 1) and bedside rounding (PFE Metric 2) leads to improved outcomes.

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First Do No Harm

Briggs Healthcare

and Jonathan Blum, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – names you may recognize from CMS National Stakeholder Calls. Ensuring patient safety is at the heart of the Hippocratic Oath: First, Do No Harm. Protecting patients must always remain our first priority. The authors are Lee Fleisher, MD.,