HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Chief Operating Officer of Forcura In home-based care, the way we manage care transitions must change. Poorly managed care transitions have become more prevalent in the sector and have a considerably negative impact on patients. Put differently, the home-based care industry needs smarter referral management.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 26, 2024

. – The strategic deployment will provide Prisma Health and its Clinically Integrated Network, inVio Health Network , with real-time patient intelligence across the entire care continuum. Discharge Summaries : Improves communication by addressing challenges in sharing vital patient information across different healthcare settings.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 16, 2022

For home-based providers, maximizing the seamlessness of a post-hospital care transition is paramount. As hospitals are sending more patients than ever to the home, the ones that can take the patient with the most ease are more likely to win out. RML Specialty Hospital isn’t an anomaly.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

– Transitioning from hospital to home: Managing daily routines, handling potential complications, and accessing community support. Proven Impact on Patient Outcomes This partnership holds significant potential to improve care transitions and patient outcomes. ” .

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Overall, the expansion is a move to further improve care transitions, coordination and continuity. About $25 billion in annual health care costs are the result of the absence of continuity and coordination during care transitions from the hospital to the home setting, according to a study published by BMC Health Services Research.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Despite this, there are a number of methods skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and other health organizations can adopt to improve the transition from inpatient care to home for patients and their caregivers. That’s according to a report released Monday by United Hospital Fund (UHF), a New York-based health equity nonprofit.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 14, 2023

Another way is through a focus on care transitions. This entails supporting patients into and through post-acute settings, helping people to avoid hospital readmissions after an inpatient stay,” McMahon said. This year, we will manage nearly 12 million care transitions, about twice as many as just three years ago.

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Healthcare Leadership

APRIL 24, 2023

Threats to safe transitions from hospital to home: a consensus study in North West London primary care”, British Journal of General Practice , January 2020, [link] , accessed 24 April 2023. We have the technology to improve it, but do we have the will? Can’t wait to discuss this with the HCLDR community. Naylor M, Keating SA.

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Readiness Rounds

OCTOBER 16, 2023

2023 HCAHPS Scores Leave Much to be Desired The stark reality of patient satisfaction among US hospitals is simply that it’s not where it should be. From HCAHPS’s 2023 national results , the average overall hospital rating in terms of patient satisfaction was 70%. That is a C- in school terms. Plus many more strategies.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

“We recognized that more quickly than a lot of providers, just because of the referrals we got from hospitals,” Myers said. “We We had a much higher percentage of managed care referrals coming our way, and we didn’t have the resources to care for those patients, and we wanted to care for them.

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Home Health Care

MAY 25, 2022

For a while now, home care giant BrightStar Care has gone above and beyond the standard franchise model. It introduced senior living communities into its network to assist seniors with their care transitions while maintaining those clients. BrightStar has always had its medical staffing segment, too. “I’ll

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Home Health Care

JUNE 6, 2023

Referral rejection rates capture providers’ need to turn down new patients being discharged from the hospital or other care settings, often due to staffing constraints. Only 14% of respondents said that this had very little impact on care recipients. Home health providers’ referral rejection rates skyrocketed in 2021.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Wayspring also partners with existing provider networks to refer members to high-quality treatment, facilitate care transitions, and improve adherence to evidence-based medicine.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It was established with the goal of improving the quality of health care services and patient safety through accreditation and certification programs. We’ve also recently added accreditation for hospitals which has allowed us to make an even greater impact across the continuum.

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Readiness Rounds

JULY 31, 2023

Patient communication boards play a pivotal role in enhancing both patient satisfaction and a hospital's HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) score and star rating. Do you ever question the effectiveness of your hospital's communication boards?

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This includes delivering real-time notifications whenever patients experience care events, whether they are at a hospital or emergency department, or post-acute in nature (SNF, LTACH, HHA, IRF, hospice)—leading to better awareness and more complete care. Real-Time Patient Event Notifications.

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Healthcare Leadership

MARCH 19, 2023

Patient Perspectives on Care Transitions From Hospital to Home”, JAMA Network Open , 6 May 2022, [link] , accessed 19 March 2023 “Hospital discharge planning hinges on good communication”, Healthy Debate , 6 June 2017, [link] , accessed 19 March 2023 Minemyer, Paige.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Pu noted that the home-based primary care (labeled as quadrant III in the graphic) and hospital at home (labeled as quadrant IV in the graphic) models are targeted to a relatively small number of patients with the highest medical needs. Incorporating data to improve HCBS supports should be an ongoing, continuous activity.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2022

Through the utilization of Pings, HTA receives real-time e-notifications whenever patients experience care events, enabling the company to scale how it manages its PPO and HMO patient populations. In turn, this will streamline processes for both staff of HTA and members receiving care.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As the COVID-19 virus and its rapidly developing variants continue to disrupt the home health care industry , the need for home health providers continues to grow, with patients, payers and providers all seeing the benefits of moving care into the home. With that shift comes an increased need for better care collaboration.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The adoption of electronic prior authorization transactions could take years, so let’s look for ways to foster better communications and transparency between providers and health plans to minimize care delays. Improve visibility : The patient hand-off from a hospital to a skilled nursing facility is complicated. About Russell Graney.

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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Support with Day-to-Day and Complex Medical Tasks : Offices throughout the government will coordinate with states to grow and strengthen the direct care workforce to help with caregiving tasks.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2022

States face the processing of an unprecedented volume of Medicaid redeterminations and will have only 60 days’ advance notice to prepare for potentially the biggest health care transition since the Affordable Care Act.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

That gives us a unique set of data and insights that is potentially ahead of what others in the industry can see about the transition of care, the move from facility- to home-based care, and the challenges that hospitals are running into working with home health providers. days in 2019 to over 7 days in 2022.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

Illinois described using two dashboards to monitor performance: a population-specific dashboard that includes data on metrics such as care plan completion and care transitions and an internal-performance dashboard to examine differences in care and utilization by race, ethnicity, and region.

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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As states navigate current fiscal constraints, state policymakers are focusing on helping older adults remain in home-and community-based settings for as long as possible while also potentially reducing costly hospital and nursing home services. Michigan created a health equity project to increase the use of HCBS.

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Medical GPS

JUNE 23, 2021

2) Furthermore, Sara Heath writes about the importance of educating patients in an effort to cut down on hospital readmissions in her article, “Patient Engagement Strategies That Prevent Hospital Readmission.”

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The success of early value-based care adopters and the effective implementation of interoperability solutions should be taken as further proof that transitioning to effective fee-for-value models now will benefit care organizations, as well as the health of our nation, in the long run.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 22, 2022

Hospitals are increasingly turning to value-based care initiatives to transform care delivery, lower the total cost of care, and improve patient outcomes. the number of patient visits), providers are reimbursed based on the quality of care delivered in value-based care. Reduce hospital admissions.

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NASHP

MARCH 29, 2024

The UVA health system also manages the Care Connection for Children center in SWVA, which is a statewide network funded through the Title V CYSHCN program, to provide care coordination services to CYSHCN and their families. 27] Children’s Hospital Association. Medicaid.gov. 26] State of Hawaii, Department of Health.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

In the wake of the pandemic and growing consumer preferences, the hospital-to-home movement is gaining traction among health systems. Amidst bullish forecasts for the promise of hospital-to-home discharges, the ability for many patients to make this migration would be a difficult bridge to cross.

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The Beryl Institute

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

It is for this reason we continue to evolve our work at The Beryl institute to expand the experience conversation to all points on the continuum of care and to acknowledge the opportunities at the moments of care transition as well. If we accept choice is a factor now in healthcare, then experience matters.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2021

All new models must also include patients from historically underserved populations and safety net providers, such as community health centers and disproportionate share hospitals. Strategic Objective 3: Support Care Innovations.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 17, 2022

Failure to adhere to guidelines can increase the risk of complications, drive up costs, and lengthen hospital stays [5]. Facilitating close collaboration and communication across care teams as well as with patients helps achieve better and more timely outcomes. Roles in healthcare are changing.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The state has used Medicaid waivers, and state plan amendments to pay for these services, as well as other mechanisms like hospital budgets and grants. Community health centers, nonprofits and hospitals serve as the major CHW employers in the state. Virginia does not reimburse for CHW services through its Medicaid program.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

People with serious and life-threatening health conditions experience care needs that drive costs, including hospital admissions , emergency department utilization , and nursing home care. Kelley and Bollens-Lund, 2018. billion on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) per year.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

By joining with WellSky, Experience Care clients will be able to leverage WellSky’s broad suite of solutions, leading network of providers, and tech-enabled services to better collaborate, facilitate seamless care transitions, and achieve successful outcomes for complex patient populations.

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