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Recommendations to Enhance Telemedicine in Nursing Homes in the Age of COVID-19

Briggs Healthcare

population, NH residents account for nearly 33% of all COVID-19 deaths. Herein, we report 12 recommendations to enhance and sustain TM (Table 1) from a TM adoption study, certified as quality improvement by the UW Madison Health Sciences IRB.”. Despite representing <1% of the U.S.

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Newsletter, March 2023

Patient Safety Movement

Five conditions account for 39% of serious misdiagnosis-related harms: stroke, myocardial infarction, aortic aneurysm/dissection, spinal cord compression/injury, and venous thromboembolism. The authors estimate that with 130 million ED visits a year in the US, 7.4 million patients are misdiagnosed, 2.6

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State Community Health Worker Models

NASHP

ACO Accountable Care Organizations. PH-MCO Physical Health Managed Care Organization. PHW Pandemic Health Worker. RAE Regional Accountable Entity. Rhode Island’s Medicaid Accountable Entities (similar to ACOs) may use funds earned through the Health System Transformation Project Incentive Fund to fund CHW services.

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Community Health Worker Models

NASHP

The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (the Medicaid program administrator) does not specifically require the Regional Accountable Entities (RAEs), care coordinating entities contracted with Colorado’s Medicaid program, or other managed care entities to cover CHW services, nor does the Department pay for CHW services under FFS.