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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? Bridge Language Barriers: Patient communication boards help overcome language barriers, ensuring that patients with limited English proficiency can still effectively communicate their needs.

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center: Equity and Vision

Sheppard Health Law

In addition, only four models met the requirements to be expanded in duration and scope: Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model; Pioneer ACO Model; Repetitive, Prior Authorization of Repetitive, Schedule Non-Emergent Ambulance Transport Model; and Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program Expanded Model.

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How Electronic Health Records Help to Engage Patients and Reduce Errors

Medical GPS

Knowledge is Power: According to Healthie’s business blog, “Research has shown that almost 75% of patients felt if they could access their health information online, they would have a better understanding of their health.” (2)

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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] Care Transitions. Score – 12). 18] Jorina M, et al.,

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From Telemedicine to Complete Virtual Care and Beyond

HIT Consultant

The goal is to build and operationalize an entirely new engine that improves upon the virtual urgent care model with the next generation of tools specifically designed for preemptive care and able to catch medical issues before they become dangerous and expensive.

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Out of Sight: Why Invisible Patient Engagement is Optimal Patient Engagement

HIT Consultant

A proliferation of point solutions add value in terms of data collection, but many are tacked onto IT architectures and siloed, resulting in data gaps or cumbersome manual data processing and integration, preventing timely and nuanced data analysis. Where does patient engagement fit?

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Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Health Populi

Along with the potential of the home evolving as a patient, consumer, and caregiver’s health hub come the realities and challenges of peoples’ daily lives: those social (and other) determinants of health (SDoH) and living situations that are real obstacles for many patients’ discharged to home.