Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 23, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The title of this blog is the title of the August 19, 2023 New York Times article with these opening paragraphs: “The first terrifying wave of Covid-19 caused 60,000 deaths among residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities within five months.

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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. We also recommended ways to make it easier for consumers to compare the quality of care in nursing homes across the nation.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 7, 2022

State Strategies to Support the Future of the Primary Care Physician and Nursing Workforce December 7, 2022 / by Elaine Chhean , Anita Cardwell , Lauren Block (Aurrera Health Group), and Sarah Tocher (Aurrera Health Group). High-quality primary care is foundational to a healthy society and well-functioning health care systems.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Leaders adopt emerging medtech to support short- and long-term cost-reduction and error-prevention goals. It can assist with many preventive-care measures. Nurses use the devices for quick access to electronic health records (EHRs), and patients can self-report some information, offsetting nurses’ workloads.

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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 It News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

" For too many patients, "healthcare is still broken: unaffordable, biased – and largely still based on acute care rather than prevention," he said. "COVID-19 showed the world what's wrong: Not enough focus on public health, prevention and equity.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 19, 2022

Five individuals and two for-profit skilled nursing facilities in Southwestern Pennsylvania have been indicted by federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and related health care fraud charges, United States Attorney Cindy K. This is a news release you need to read. as co-defendants.

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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. It can be in the form of medications, tests, procedures, preventative measures, etc. Accountability. There is a higher rate of accountability among ACO-affiliated healthcare providers.

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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. It can be in the form of medications, tests, procedures, preventative measures, etc. Accountability. There is a higher rate of accountability among ACO-affiliated healthcare providers.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 19, 2022

These items have been added to the OIG work plan this month (August): “Understanding skilled nursing facilities’ (SNFs’) costs is crucial to understanding the factors that contribute to nursing home performance and how nursing homes deliver care to beneficiaries. This information is found here.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 23, 2022

Chronic diseases like asthma account for 25% of emergency department visits, mainly due to patients’ lack of objective data to help them assess disease progression at home. offers an artificial intelligence-enabled clinical nutrition app, NutriLeap, that helps healthcare professionals prevent and treat malnutrition. HealthLeap Inc.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2022

Care managers and social workers, working within accountable care organizations, and physician provider networks now incorporate a short series of SDOH interview questions with patients identified as high-risk for poor healthcare outcomes or unnecessary future healthcare expenditures.

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Briggs Healthcare

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare In-Depth Review of Nursing Home Citations Related to the Use of Antipsychotic Drugs The potentially inappropriate use of antipsychotic drugs among nursing home residents remains concerning despite efforts to decrease their use over the last decade.

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Healthcare Success

JULY 31, 2023

It has application in value-based care, patient population health, accountable care organizations (ACOs), and health management organizations (HMOs). to prevent or improve chronic health conditions. the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA) to protect patient privacy and confidentiality.

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Patient Safety

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Executive Director’s Choice Award: Fall prevention is an important initiative for every hospital unit in providing excellent care. Recently, the nursing team on 3 South at Fox Chase Cancer Center reached the significant milestone of one full year—365 consecutive days—with no patient falls on their unit.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For starters, phishing accounted for up to 60% of the attacks on the healthcare sector in the first quarter of 2023, according to DNSFilter’s State of Internet Security report. A plan should cover every aspect of an organization’s defense, including prevention, detection, response and recovery. Even more unnerving?

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

There is good news to report coming out of the Press Ganey study in that safety culture is even to upward trending, the line charts indicate: safety culture overall is improving over the past two years, especially for prevention and reporting and for resources and teamwork among the workforce.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By administering ultrasound technology at the point of care, whether that be the patient’s bedside or an ambulance, POCUS prevents patients from being sent to another facility for imaging or waiting for a radiologist. That, in turn, enables more efficient workflows and faster diagnoses and treatment.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Additionally, a pilot is being conducted to evaluate the impact of using a centralized nurse triage process to resolve minor patient issues, freeing up providers' time to increase access. We quickly looked for a telehealth solution to prevent unnecessary transfers and keep care local.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

" Regarding providers, it is critical that one accounts for current workflows and how providers use their current systems, Karim further advised. The goal is to provide on-demand, convenient virtual urgent care to reach the patient where they are and keep them safely in their home. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2024

Solving for misalignment between payers and providers When focusing on the hospital and acute care implications, CMS transparency data showed that 25% of all hospital claim denials were related to medical necessity and accounted for 30% of all denial write-offs, resulting in significant losses for care already provided.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As someone who works in a clinic that serves marginalized and underserved communities, she describes the important role pharmacists can play on a healthcare team alongside doctors and nurses to ensure patients get the appropriate medications with minimal drug interactions. Of the seven resulting deaths, one was deemed preventable.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that obesity accounts for $147 billion in annual healthcare costs, an amount which could be greatly lowered through use of the new drugs. GLP-1 medications have also been shown to improve outcomes for patients with diabetes, heart disease and other chronic conditions.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As healthcare organizations experience the profound financial impact of nurse shortages, care guidance is providing an innovative and efficient solution. Remove non-clinical tasks from the workloads of nurses and clinical staff. Schedule appointments, screenings, preventive care and annual wellness visits.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The company employed personal care assistants, residential aides, home health aides and licensed practical nurses. Medical Staffing, they will be held accountable when they fail to pay employees their legally earned wages,” she said. An investigation by the DOL’s wage and hour division found that U.S. This took place from roughly Sept.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. A lot of new challenges.

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Sheppard Health Law

MARCH 6, 2024

Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division of the DOJ, cited a study purporting to show that private equity ownership of nursing homes was responsible for over 20,000 premature deaths in just 12 years. 1] Health care market participants (i.e. 1] Health care market participants (i.e.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 13, 2024

In short, revenue integrity simply means ensuring providers are paid appropriately for all services provided and in an efficient and compliant manner to prevent revenue leakage and compliance risk. Tanya’s healthcare career spans 30 years including clinical nursing, legal and regulatory consulting, and healthcare revenue cycle leadership.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 3, 2024

They do this by constantly anticipating potential failures and accounting for them. Another important lesson that can be drawn from HROs is valuing the diverse perspectives assigned to a case, whether it’s the surgeon, anesthesiologist, nurse, or technician. Valuing each individual’s expertise can help prevent critical incidents.

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Readiness Rounds

JULY 16, 2023

The 5 Ps of proactive rounding are a structured approach that helps nurses address patients' needs and ensure their safety and well-being. I know my nurse will come back and check on me.” “The The nurses really care about me.” Many in nursing feel a script sounds too automated and restricting.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This includes visits, they’re doing assessments, they have licensed wound care nurses, they connect through messaging with wound care doctors to keep the physicians looped in with any changes and the status of the wound,” Nicole Schmidt, manager of Kaiser’s post-acute network, told HHCN. It also includes real-time data sharing.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Without addressing the reimbursement gap identified by this report, some of Michigan’s most vulnerable populations stand to lose access to important primary, preventive, and integrated care. Michigan health centers provide essential health care services regardless of patients’ ability to pay and charge for services on a sliding fee scale.

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Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the Congressional Research Service, which analyzed data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) National Health Expenditure Accounts (“NHEA”) on the personal health expenditures for LTSS by payer, in 2021, an estimated $467.4 billion was spent on LTSS. This represents 13.2% of LTSS spending. [5]

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Effective September 20, 2021, CMS exercised enforcement discretion for Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) consolidated billing provisions related to flu and pneumococcal vaccines. Quickly, safely, and effectively vaccinating our most vulnerable citizens in settings that have accounted for about 30 percent of U.S.

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NASHP

APRIL 24, 2023

Access to quality health services is essential as most preventable pregnancy-related deaths are attributed to mental health and cardiac and coronary conditions. Assuring postpartum coverage may help address this public health issue by providing preventive care and chronic condition management to low-income pregnant and postpartum women.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

health care employment since 2001, today accounting for twice as many staff as physicians and nurses. The team noted in their JAMA viewpoint that over 1 million administrative employees were added to U.S. Claims — that’s the paper-based workflow that eats up some of the $billion U.S.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 27, 2022

Instead, many hospitals often skip teeth brushing to prioritize other tasks and provide only cheap, ineffective toothbrushes, often unaware of the consequences, said Dian Baker, a Sacramento State nursing professor who has spent more than a decade studying NVHAP. Pneumonia occurs when germs trigger an infection in the lungs.

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