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How Effective Patient Communication Boards Improve Safety & HCAHPS Scores

Readiness Rounds

Are you unsure whether they genuinely contribute to patient safety and enhance the overall patient experience? Patients can use the boards to express their needs, concerns, enabling healthcare professionals to address them promptly. The 8 Dos of a Successful Patient Communication Board 1.

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Aligning Quality Measures with the National Care Coordination Standards for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN)

NASHP

Comprehensive quality measurement of care coordination services is essential to evaluate and guide care coordination efforts, yet little agreement exists among stakeholders about how to best measure the provision and quality of care coordination services. [4] Shared Plan of Care. Patient-Centered Medical Home Assessment.

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How Electronic Health Records Help to Engage Patients and Reduce Errors

Medical GPS

The receptionist who answered the phone informed me I could set up an account through their online patient portal and retrieve all of the notes taken during his appointment, as well as contact his doctor, and review his medical records.

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Expanding the dialogue on experience excellence to long term care

The Beryl Institute

When we first developed the definition for patient experience with a group of contributing healthcare leaders, four themes emerged as central to our discussion and ultimately to the definition itself – the sum of all interactions , shaped by an organization’s culture, that influence patient perceptions across the continuum of care.

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From Telemedicine to Complete Virtual Care and Beyond

HIT Consultant

While consulting at the University of Texas Medical Branch on telemedicine for inmate care, Dr. Sanders met Dr. G. Byron Brooks, an electrical engineer and medical doctor. Telehealth Revolution Evolves to Virtual Care, Providing a Solution to Modern Healthcare Challenges The rest is history. Kilimanjaro.

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Engagement, Interoperability, and the Future of the Healthcare Tech Stack

HIT Consultant

We’re seeing marked increases of automation and artificial—often referred to as augmented—intelligence to not only improve patient experience and enhance workflows but also assist in clinical decision making. Better patient experiences: Interoperability and data availability have direct impacts on patient satisfaction.

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Newsletter, October 2023

Patient Safety Movement

In this time of multiple wars, we also want to recognize the heroism of the healthcare workers who have stayed, or traveled to, very dangerous locations to take care of the injured—often at great risk to themselves and with very limited supplies.