Fitch Ratings: Workforce pressures easing for hospitals, ambulatory care, nursing homes
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 11, 2023
Fitch Ratings: Workforce pressures easing for hospitals, ambulatory care, nursing homes dmuoio Tue, 04/11/2023 - 12:40
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 11, 2023
Fitch Ratings: Workforce pressures easing for hospitals, ambulatory care, nursing homes dmuoio Tue, 04/11/2023 - 12:40
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 31, 2023
Tenet Healthcare beat the street in the second quarter, reporting Monday $123 million in net income thanks to higher volumes and revenues across its ambulatory care segment. | The for-profit system beat the street with net operating revenues up 9.5% year over year, prompting an increase to 2023 guidance.
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Fierce Healthcare
JULY 24, 2023
As hospitals acquire ambulatory care centers, consumers are more likely to be forced to pay outpatient facility fees for routine care traditionally covered by physician offices at lower costs.
The Beryl Institute
OCTOBER 19, 2020
Now more than ever, there is a recognition that COVID-19 is changing how healthcare is being delivered, especially in the ambulatory care environment, which includes settings such as physician offices and clinics, surgery centers, hospital outpatient departments, pharmacies, labs, testing centers and dialysis centers.
Advanced Data Systems
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
The healthcare sector is dynamic, with regulations and best practices continuously evolving. One critical area subject to change is the coding system, with the ICD-10-CM (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification) updates for 2024 set to take effect on October 1, 2023.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Clinician-Controlled Mobile App for Acute & Ambulatory Settings The new solution offers a variety of features to support busy healthcare clinicians throughout their clinic day, including summaries of key medical events, reminders of unfinished notes, and flexibility for post-visit dictation and text editing.
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 10, 2023
® Acute Care, the ISMP Medication Safety Alert! ® Community/Ambulatory Care, and the FDA and ISMP Lists of Look-Alike Drug Names with Recommended Tall Man Letters. [1] ® Acute Care, the ISMP Medication Safety Alert!®
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
An ICU tower right next door which will take care of the sickest of the sick that can't possibly have home health care … But other than that? All the ambulatory care stuff, and all the simple stuff? It's going to be the emergency department for heart attacks or strokes. It all gets moved into the home."
Briggs Healthcare
JULY 21, 2022
Section 1: National health care and Medicare spending Section 2: Medicare beneficiary demographics Section 3: Medicare beneficiary and other payer financial liability Section 4: Dual-eligible beneficiaries Section 5: Alternative payment models Section 6: Acute inpatient services Section 7: Ambulatory care Section 8: Post-acute care Section 9: Medicare (..)
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
The ambulatory care vendor was still embroiled in the back-and-forth as of this week. Meanwhile, NextGen Healthcare faced a potential board shakeup : Founder and Director Sheldon Razin announced his nomination of four new candidates to the company's board in August in response to the company's own selection.
Healthcare It News
MAY 18, 2023
Driven by a desire for more convenient and affordable care, many patients focusing less on provider qualifications when seeking ambulatory care, according to a new Wolters Kluwer survey, which shows 58% of them opting first for retail options as pharmacists shifting to address consumer needs.
Briggs Healthcare
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
The toolkit includes information for the acute care setting on building and maintaining an antibiotic stewardship program, improving the safety culture around antibiotic prescribing, and diagnosing and treating common infectious disease syndromes. Access the Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Ambulatory Care.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 6, 2023
. – The newly emerged 98point6 Technologies plans to remain solely focused on licensing its software to third-party health care providers such as MultiCare Health System, the first to license the 98point6 Technology Platform within its hybrid ambulatory care platform, Indigo Health.
Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 13, 2022
"The holistic care model integrates RPM and timely pharmacologic treatment designed and led by ambulatory care clinical pharmacists, and offers comprehensive education and customized care plans delivered by registered dietitians in collaboration with referring providers." Interdisciplinary.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 21, 2023
What You Should Know: Konica Minolta launches Konica Minolta Connected Care , a cloud-based workflow automation platform designed to streamline manual processes such as patient intake, care transitions and referral management across acute, post-acute and ambulatory care settings.
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Wylie VA Ambulatory Care Center in Columbus, Ohio. "Before implementing the new scheduling system at the Columbus and Spokane facilities, Cerner trained schedulers and care providers to use the system," read the report. WHY IT MATTERS.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
health care industries fell to their lowest consumer satisfaction scores in two decades, we learn in the latest evaluation by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index report. As important as health became to humans at the base of our Hierachies of Needs , in the U.S.,
Briggs Healthcare
JULY 25, 2023
There’s something for everyone: National health care and Medicare spending Medicare beneficiary demographics Medicare beneficiary and other payer financial liability Dual-eligible beneficiaries Alternative payment models Acute inpatient services General short-term hospitals Inpatient psychiatric facilities Ambulatory care Physicians and other health (..)
Health Populi
AUGUST 3, 2023
.” The H-a-H Framework is illustrated here, with the patient’s home environment is positioned at the center of the circle which identifies various care services including: Ambulatory care, covering primary care, chronic care, specialty care, mental and behavioral health, oncology-at-home, dialysis, infusion On-demand and urgent care, which (..)
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Systeem provides core information technology services with a primary focus on ambulatory healthcare providers. – The addition of ambulatory IT support services provider further expands Medsphere’s affordable, adaptable comprehensive healthcare technology platform.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
These self-service platforms will provide an integrated patient experience, with ambulatory care providers, in-patient hospital services, and other medical providers all able to connect on a single patient portal.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
athenahealth partners with more than 140,000 ambulatory care providers, throughout all 50 states and across more than 120 specialties, to accelerate the pace of healthcare innovation and support the delivery of leading clinical and financial outcomes. athenahealth Market Footprint.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
MARCH 17, 2023
The findings therefore suggest that patient pathways play a significant role in the diffusion of a new drug in ambulatory care. The effect is stronger when physicians do not strictly follow medical guidelines. An important finding. You can read the full paper here.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
The data are sourced from de-identified microbiology data from athenaClinicals, athenahealth’s cloud-based electronic health record, used predominantly by ambulatory care organizations. Bugs + Drugs’ methods and apparatus for tracking antimicrobial susceptibility based on geography is a patented process.
Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 23, 2022
Other changes may result after due consideration of all comments and hearing testimony. Alignment with CDC Recommendations for Healthcare Infection Control Practices Additional Flexibility for Employers Removal of Scope Exemptions (e.g.,
NCQA
JULY 17, 2023
Retired for Measurement Year 2024 Narrowly scoped measures or no longer demonstrate opportunities for improvement: Ambulatory Care and Inpatient Utilization—General Hospital/Acute Care. Using feedback from public comment and our advisory panels, we have identified seven measures for retirement or replacement.
Health Populi
AUGUST 24, 2021
For Black patients, lower utilization of ambulatory care and higher use of inpatient, emergency department, and nursing suggest greater spender downstream that might be prevented by more spending upstream on primary care, prevention, and early detection of disease.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 19, 2022
Even nursing and residential care facilities reported greater employment gains, according to Altarum. Health care employment grew by a robust 69,600 jobs in July 2022,” the brief continues. Multiple home health providers have described the labor improvements they’ve seen of late.
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 17, 2023
Demographics forms for individual healthcare settings available for download to send to facility prior to ICAR assessment: Demographics – Acute Care [PDF – 6 pages] Demographics – Long-Term Care [PDF – 6 pages] Demographics – Outpatient/Ambulatory Care [PDF – 5 pages] Click on each Module below to open the tool in a fillable PDF document.
CHQ Healthcare
MAY 10, 2023
Barb Martin Executive Director of Ambulatory Care Selection & Onboarding Mercy Health, MO Barb is a strong leader full of heart. She cares deeply for the people she works with and the organization she serves. Barb has worked for Mercy Health for more than eight years as recruiter, manager, and now Executive Director.
NCQA
AUGUST 1, 2023
The measure is not widely used and addresses only one aspect of COPD care (confirming a new diagnosis). Ambulatory Care and Inpatient Utilization—General Hospital/Acute Care. Non-Recommended Cervical Cancer Screening in Adolescent Females.
Lexis Nexis
DECEMBER 22, 2021
ambulatory care-sensitive condition emergency room visits, readmissions, cost of care) Evaluate the impact of an intervention on a health outcome of interest: Readmission Rates Total Cost of Care Admissions ER visits Hospital acquired conditions Preventable Hospitalizations: Ambulatory Care?Sensitive?Emergency
Briggs Healthcare
MAY 5, 2023
Nurses are essential to every health care setting—in hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory care centers, and patients’ homes.” Nurses play a vital role in educating people in how to avoid illness and promote good health. I have always been proud of being a nurse. I celebrate my 50 th year in nursing this month.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 16, 2022
Roy Jakobs has been successful in turning around businesses in customer-focused growth organizations and has effectively strengthened the company’s Connected Care portfolio through successful acquisitions across hospital and ambulatory care settings.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 30, 2021
This ambient clinical intelligence solution will expand upon Cooper’s ability to enhance patient experiences, expand access to care, and advance care quality through a renewed focus on physician-patient conversation and clinical documentation improvement.
NCQA
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
NCQA seeks comment on the following proposed retirements: HEDIS Measurement Year 2024 Ambulatory Care. Inpatient Utilization—General Hospital/Acute Care. We see a way for a new and better measure can address an existing quality concept. Antidepressant Medication Management.
Health Populi
DECEMBER 12, 2022
consumers’ utilization of health care has been pretty stable, the type of visit encounters is shifting away from hospital inpatient cases to ambulatory care, urgent and retail health care sites, data from Kaufman Hall and Sg2 tell us. While overall U.S.
Health Populi
JULY 29, 2021
Power believes that pharmacies are “setting the stage for the transformation of ambulatory care delivery,” in their words. This is the 13th year of the study, which surveyed responses from 12,646 consumers who had filled a prescription in the 3 months prior to September 2020 through May 2021. This year, J.D. Power found.
Health Populi
JUNE 30, 2023
Another key shift that serves as a medical cost trend deflator is the shift in site of care, to homes, community-based care locales, and outpatient healthcare settings such as ambulatory surgery centers. We’ve reached a new phase in health care in the U.S.,
Health Populi
MAY 31, 2023
It is interesting to see that the annual health care cost for an individual’s inpatient hospital care remained relatively flat between 2021 and 2023, but shows an increase on the outpatient hospital side. Physician costs, too, demonstrate cost growth, representing 30% of costs for the average individual in 2023.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Walmart, clearly, is growing its primary care and mental health service supply side, planning to replicate health centers across markets where it makes sense to do so… like in under-served areas where more people live without health insurance. Indeed, outpatient and ambulatory care is the New Black for hospitals and health care.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 29, 2023
Overcrowding in today’s EDs is not uncommon – a situation further compounded by the growing number of patients who visit the ED for non-urgent or non-emergency conditions that could be better treated in ambulatory care settings.
Health Populi
APRIL 18, 2023
Most commonly provided today are diagnostic imaging centers, ambulatory care centers, community healthcare workers, labs, and walk-in centers.
Health Populi
APRIL 25, 2023
OECD finally recognizes that all stakeholders in the health/care ecosystem have roles to play in being more efficient, effective, and engaging in getting more value out of health care spending.
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