HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2024

In healthcare, this presents a multitude of benefits, including the ability to proactively intervene to prevent a patient’s health from declining. This will end the era of one-size-fits-most in medicine, ushering in personalized and preventative healthcare as standard.

Prevention 105

Prevention Doctors Process improvement Integration 105

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Value-Based Care Initiatives: Participating in value-based care models and accountable care organizations can lead to increased reimbursement based on improved patient outcomes and cost savings. Minimize Denials and Appeals: Preventing denials through proper documentation and coding reduces the need for appeals, saving time and resources.

Regulations 105

Regulations Accountable Care Medicare Prevention 105

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Connie Moser, Chief Executive Officer, Navenio If any sector requires process improvement, it’s healthcare. Management needs to better understand employee needs to introduce initiatives and hospitals need an easy-to-integrate and central IT system that can drive process change in a sustainable and unified way.

Hospitals 94

Hospitals Nursing Process improvement Doctors 94

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Year over year, data from the Commonwealth Fund demonstrates that despite high costs for healthcare, the patients in United States experience worse outcomes with lower life expectancy and higher rates of preventable and treatable deaths than other developed nations.

Population Health 98

Population Health Nursing Primary Care Process improvement 98

Etactics

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Establishing a robust verification process, improving communication with patients, and maintaining up-to-date insurance records can all help protect your revenue cycle. Building trust and maintaining regular communication will help prevent surprises, such as a terminated policy.

Prevention 52

Prevention Process improvement Doctors Healthcare Providers 52

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 20, 2023

Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2023 For 2023, ECRI’s report includes a series of challenges to industry, urging manufacturers to pursue device or process improvements that could mitigate—or even eliminate—some of the hazards included on the list.

Health Technology 97

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2024

Members may still pursue treatment with a traditional primary care provider (PCP) for regular preventive care or chronic condition management, in addition to specialty care and retail centers. The increase in retail locations has increased care accessibility, frequently leading to higher utilization and a decentralized medical history.

Healthcare 111

Healthcare Urgent Care Primary Care Patient Experience 111

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Intelligent document processing (IDP) can help by automating these tasks, boosting productivity, speeding up processes, improving accuracy and saving money. Security continues to be a crucial aspect to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data.

Pharmaceuticals 105

Pharmaceuticals Quality Control Process improvement Integration 105

Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 27, 2025

Leaders must ensure that: Relevant Data is Shared: Provide staff with timely and accurate data related to patient outcomes, safety metrics, and process improvements. Enhancing Patient Trust: Quality initiatives improve patient satisfaction and engagement, critical components of better care experiences and health outcomes.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Performance improvement Quality Improvement Patient Safety 52

GoMoHealth

OCTOBER 20, 2022

During my time working at these organizations, it became clear that leadership did not understand or have the desire to explore new ways to implement process improvement plans to affect positive change, even when tactical initiatives did not meet the goals set forth. 3,000 noncompliant for variety of preventive care screenings.

Quality Improvement 88

Quality Improvement Medicaid Medicare Population Health 88

HIT Consultant

MARCH 3, 2025

Future Enhancements Webex plans to further enhance the integration with Epic by adding features such as: AI agent transfer context summaries: Provides human agents with summaries of previous interactions with AI agents, ensuring a smooth transition and preventing patients from repeating information.

Patient Experience 52

Patient Experience Integration Process improvement Healthcare Providers 52

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 16, 2024

– Cost savings and operational efficiency by automating administrative processes, improving clinical documentation, and preventing delays. . – Explainable AI recommendations that clinicians can understand, verify, and trust.

Integration 52

Integration Process improvement Hospitals Healthcare Providers 52

Sequence Health

MARCH 13, 2024

This balance prevents the dual pitfalls of understaffing, which can lead to long wait times and frustrated patients and overstaffing, which unnecessarily elevates operational costs. Moreover, anticipating peak times ensures that enough staff is on hand to provide timely assistance, improving the overall patient experience and satisfaction.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Patient Experience Process improvement Prevention 52

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Without insurance, many individuals will choose to not seek preventive medical care to avoid the high cost that is associated with visiting a doctor’s office. Instead, they will flood emergency rooms with urgent illnesses and diseases that could have been easily prevented with treatment or early intervention from a primary care physician.

Medicaid 64

Medicaid Prevention Primary Care Process improvement 64

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Pent-up patient demand for non-emergency, preventative services–everything from cancer screenings to mental health support to birth control to smoking cessation–would eventually draw patients back into the healthcare system. Many only seek care in their local hospital emergency department when they’re sick and often end up hospitalized.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Primary Care Urgent Care Patient Experience 52

Sequence Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With EHR integration, medical call centers reduce medical errors and improve patient outcomes through precise, reliable record management. By preventing missed doses and potential drug interactions, these systems reduce patient anxiety and contribute to patient satisfaction.

Patient Experience 52

Patient Experience Quality Improvement Integration Healthcare Providers 52

Icanotes

MARCH 15, 2021

Using health IT to prevent EHI from completely traveling between health information technology systems or contribute to health IT fraud. Getting paid and digitally tracking claims tend to be long and drawn-out processes. Using practices that limit authorized access or use of health information.

Telemedicine 98

Telemedicine Regulations Doctors Quality of Care 98

Etactics

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In a perfect world, we would have the answer to completely preventing denials from happening. While there are precautions you can take to avoid denials, they aren’t completely preventable. In order to prevent a denial such as this, eligibility checks should occur to make sure to review the patient's insurance coverage and benefits.

Prevention 52

Prevention Healthcare Process improvement Healthcare Providers 52

Clearwave Inc

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

When patients use self-registration systems , they are more likely to provide accurate and up-to-date information because they have direct control over the data entry process and can take their time reviewing all details to ensure they are correct.

Process improvement 52

Process improvement Integration Accountability Patient Experience 52

The Beryl Institute

MARCH 7, 2019

It is not just about process improvements, though we aspire to realize them. When we still could be taking care of you and preventing you from getting sick? For the expertise on which healthcare is built, we cannot forget its purpose. It is not just about operational efficiencies, though we need them.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Patient Experience Process improvement Population Health 52

HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2023

The benefits of VBC models include better patient health outcomes at a lower cost, streamline delivery via coordinated care teams, focused preventative care and treatment plans for patients, less physician burnout, lower costs for payers, and a healthier patient population due to better adherence to treatment.

Population Health 52

Population Health Integration Accountability Pharmaceuticals 52

Home Health Care

MARCH 6, 2023

We asked for cost savings through risk reduction and lawsuit mitigation, as well as operational efficiencies, such as standardizing processes and addressing risks to patients and staff. Another area that we did ask them for was if there was a reduction in staff turnover, and possibly having a monetary evaluation with that.

Home Care 52

Home Care Patient Safety Performance improvement Process improvement 52

Readiness Rounds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Action Step: Begin viewing improvements as an act that happens in the moment, not after the fact. The easiest way to execute improvements as they happen is with an electronic system that creates and tracks issues in real-time. Don't ignore process improvement efforts but stay heavily focussed on sustainable real-time feedback.

Patient Experience 52

Patient Experience Nursing Hospitals Accountability 52

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Slupecki: Yes, data is what we all rely on, and I think all of our process improvements are very iterative. It also prevents you from distracting franchisees with something that may not work, or may not be operationalized. HHCN: Right. Michael, anything to add on that one? From candidate flow to retention.

Home Care 59

Home Care Medicaid Process improvement Healthcare 59

Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There’s a lot of things that we can do on the preventive side but, like Tom said, you have the monitoring, you have a coach. Can we talk a little bit about that? Because this, this will help reduce emergency visits or those, you know, additional comorbidities, things that complicate the care when patients come into the hospital.

Doctors 52

Doctors Urgent Care Hospitals Telemedicine 52

Vie Healthcare

JULY 26, 2023

It’s initiated, not as a preventative or proactive planned thing. ” Are you getting what you need to process improve? It’s initiated, not as a preventative or proactive planned thing. Melissa (27:49): Are you getting what you need to process improve? It’s usually a crisis.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Nursing Doctors Healthcare 52

NASHP

JUNE 22, 2022

Assessing care coordination system capacity, gaps, and process improvements. This section of the guide outlines considerations, examples, and resources for: Identifying stakeholders and establishing partnerships across care coordination and child-serving systems. Financing care coordination systems.

Care Transition 52

Care Transition Medicaid Doctors Regulations 52

Medi Leadership

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Resilience refers to an organization’s ability to recognize errors quickly, contain them and recover, preventing catastrophes. To that end, high reliability organizations build robust systems to navigate unforeseen events and anomalies while maintaining process performance under degraded conditions. Deference to expertise.

Process improvement 62

Process improvement Prevention Hospitals Healthcare 62

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

EAMC improves patient follow-up The Alabama health organization announced Thursday that through a partnership tracking radiology follow-up with AI -- and by involving primary care physicians in acute care communications -- transformed its recommendations follow-up rate by 74%.

Primary Care 344

Primary Care Prevention Health Analytics Process improvement 344

Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Approximately 25% of patients experience an adverse event in US hospitals, with over 40% caused by preventable errors. Many automobiles have monitors that help the driver avoid swerving out of their lane or reversing into a wall or tell them to hit the breaks to prevent a collision. Why is this so important?

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Prevention Hospitals Healthcare 52