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. Medicare spends nearly $60 billion on post-acute care annually. That is changing.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the road to implementing effective pop health strategies is laden with challenges: monitoring chronic illness rates and preventing community transmission, triaging emergencies over routine health care circumstances, and executing preventive services all require providers to alter their traditional fee-for-service workflow.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2024

For example, inpatient nurses who can validate the right type of proactive patient alerts. · Assess Logic and Use Case: Assess the logic and use case and confirm there is compelling reasoning to use AI as a solution. Additionally, establish clear lines of responsibility for any actions taken based on AI outputs.

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NCQA

MARCH 4, 2025

On January 28, NCQA convened a panel of expertsprimary care clinicians, nephrologists, cardiologists, endocrinologists, pharmacists, patient representativesto discuss ways to drive improvement in the quality of care for people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Heres what they said.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2021

Specifically, the study found that although nursing home residents only represent 2% of the Medicare population, they accounted for 22% of all COVID-19 cases among Medicare members. Nursing home residents were 14 times more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 compared to beneficiaries in the community,” the analysis read, offering a caveat.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Scottsdale, Arizona-based organization is a non-medical, private-duty home care provider that offers companionship, light housekeeping, meal preparation and planning, transportation and respite services. The goal is to prevent issues before they happen falls, malnutrition or social isolation.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With EHR in place, healthcare professionals can now exchange crucial patient data electronically, improving communication, reducing errors, and enhancing the overall quality of care. Burnout can lead to a decrease in the quality of care, an increase in medical errors, and ultimately impact patient safety.

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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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Home Health Care

APRIL 1, 2025

More than 400,000 seniors and medically fragile individuals in Pennsylvania rely on home care but caregivers and nurses are leaving the industry at an alarming rate to work in neighboring states or settings that offer more competitive wages. PHA members across the state are genuinely and gravely concerned, Haney said.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

This will allow for a shift from a reactive to a proactive and predictive perspective in health care. What specific technologies do you foresee playing a critical role in enhancing care capabilities at home? We know that the quality of care they receive under such conditions is also compromised.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Woundtech, located in Hollywood, Florida, is a home-based care provider specializing in wound care and the management of chronic wounds. Health care systems are focused on providing cost-effective, high-quality care that reduces hospitalizations and prevents complications, Anderson explained.

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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. nursing home residents.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 2, 2022

“The purpose of this primer is to provide updated information to the patient safety community about the challenges of ensuring the safe care of older adults in Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes (NHs) associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the federal and state efforts taken to mitigate these challenges.

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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. With recent advancements in technology and an explosion of non-urgent care options (e.g., Patient reviews have a greater reach than ever before.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Government Accountability Office has posted this January 2022 Health Care Capsule to “summarize past GAO reports on concerns about nursing home quality of care, consumer information, and COVID-19. Nursing homes have experienced a disproportionately high number of COVID-19 deaths when compared to the general U.S.

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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

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. Option of Care Coordinator. Advantages for Patients.

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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. Option of Care Coordinator. Advantages for Patients.

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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.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 7, 2024

This enables real-time remote monitoring by care teams, preventing severe wound deterioration and improving outcomes. A pilot program showed promising results, with 36% of patients experiencing changes to wound management, and 94% finding the system beneficial, reducing in-person appointments and enhancing continuity of care.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 9, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Beginning Spring 2023, the Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilities (COE-NF) will provide training and resources to skilled nursing facility staff who care for residents with a variety of behavioral health conditions.

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Cloud Blogs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

You'll also find practical use cases for applying AI and data analytics to make healthcare more efficient, including how to: Share and analyze clinical data to deliver targeted health services and improve outcomes through predictive care. Detect and prevent fraudulent claims and other abuses based on behavioral patterns.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 5, 2024

Ahzam Afzal, Co-Founder and CEO, Puzzle Healthcare Post-acute care facilities for years have been preparing for the impact that value-based purchasing (VBP) programs would have. In 2024, the stakes have gotten much higher for post-acute care facilities. Implement on-site physiatry services.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The cost of supplies continues to increase like everything else in the economy and labor costs to access skilled nurses or therapists who actually have proper wound care treating in these types of cases are also increasing. The nurse brought her supervisor to observe the wound care provided and ask if it was proper or adequate.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 30, 2022

This will help better identify potential noncompliance with CMS’s nurse staffing requirements, such as lack of a registered nurse for eight hours each day, or lack of licensed nursing for 24 hours a day. This guidance will help to uncover instances of insufficient staffing and yield higher quality care.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Many, particularly those in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), share this concern. With an estimated need for 191,000 additional nurses and a price tag of around $6.8 With an estimated need for 191,000 additional nurses and a price tag of around $6.8 While well-intentioned, the unfunded mandate presents a multifaceted problem.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 16, 2024

However, there are quantifiable results when a medical facility is safe and secure, such as patients being happier and receiving better quality of care. Too often, technology or other solutions are introduced in response to some sort of incident rather than preventing the incident from occurring in the first place.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Increased capacity for predictive modeling through AI will empower home care leaders to enhance service offerings to improve the quality of care, patient health, comfort and independence. I look forward to the future when each state’s private duty home care license is consistent nationwide.

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Vie Healthcare

JUNE 3, 2022

In Episode 47 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience, Lisa is joined by Jim Cagliostro, a Registered Nurse and VIE’s Clinical Operations Performance Improvement Expert. Together they discuss the evolving role of nursing in today’s healthcare organizations and its inherent challenges. 01:55 The evolving role of nursing in the US.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In fact, patients have generally become more amenable to being treated remotely , further supporting the move to add telehealth tools to the patient care arsenal. Increasing The Quality of Care at Home Without Adding to The Burden. You could be excused for thinking this would just replace one problem with another.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 13, 2021

There’s even voice technology that can detect changes in the patient’s voice to predict possible COPD exacerbation and other devices that can help detect falls — or even predict that a fall might happen, helping us work to prevent it. Artificial intelligence is another way technology advancements can help drive changes in home-based care.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Christian Rodriguez, CEO of Hollywood, Florida-based Woundtech, has been named a 2024 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Vie Healthcare

JUNE 10, 2022

In Episode 48 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience, Lisa is joined by Jim Cagliostro, a Registered Nurse and VIE’s Clinical Operations Performance Improvement Expert. Together they continue to discuss the role of nursing in healthcare, with a focus on the challenges of burnout. And so I mentioned that patient care assistance.

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NCQA

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Fortunately, her assisted living facility was connected to a nursing facility and we moved her there. 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. Health care in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Amid a growing shortage of doctors and nurses, hospitals around the world are increasingly turning to AI to improve the quality of care in the face of an aging population. One major undertaking across the healthcare industry is to deliver AI-driven solutions that can improve surgical care – a tall order.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 30, 2023

Hospice care generally includes nursing and aide services, drugs, and supplies. It may be provided in a variety of settings, such as the patient’s home, a nursing facility, or an assisted living facility. The key priorities of OIG’s hospice oversight are below.

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