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UConn Health squares away CMS audit trail and more with digital health platform

Healthcare It News

"Particularly for patients in rural areas, the digital care management approach is a proven conduit for improving access," he continued. "For example, it eliminates the time, expense and stress patients experience traveling to attend their pre-surgery class and in-person follow-up visits for joint replacement surgery."

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Impact of hospital mergers on quality: a case study

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Before the merger, funding was lacking for technology and infrastructure investments to support quality improvement. As a result, there was variation from standard clinical practice, such as sending patients for elective procedures through the emergency department. How were these quality improvement achieved?

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Changing Your Healthcare Mindset with Rhone D’Errico | E. 63

Vie Healthcare

We have accreditation programs that really work to make sure that that variance in quality is very narrow. We always work to have high quality graduates. And then within all the schools I’ve ever worked, there is strong quality improvement mindsets involved there. I primarily teach our psych and peace students.