HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Hilton Hudson, MD, FACS, and CEO of HPC International In May 2022, a California doctor was sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for his involvement in a $12 million Medicare fraud scheme. Physicians should emphasize their value in terms of patient outcomes, quality of care, and cost-effectiveness. He received $4.5

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 28, 2022

These are the questions Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth, Mississippi, asked as part of an initiative to improve outcomes for congestive heart failure patients, who are the highest source of the hospital's readmissions. " To keep CHF patients out of the hospital, adherence to these medications is critical.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Amid a growing shortage of doctors and nurses, hospitals around the world are increasingly turning to AI to improve the quality of care in the face of an aging population. One major undertaking across the healthcare industry is to deliver AI-driven solutions that can improve surgical care – a tall order.

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p3care

JANUARY 23, 2022

As healthcare providers, you would be constantly trying to help your patients by enhancing the quality of care. That is because patient engagement has actively proven to improve the care and lives of patients. Several factors have been highly effective in helping patients open up and establish communication with their doctors.

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p3care

JANUARY 23, 2022

As healthcare providers, you would be constantly trying to help your patients by enhancing the quality of care. That is because patient engagement has actively proven to improve the care and lives of patients. Several factors have been highly effective in helping patients open up and establish communication with their doctors.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rural communities may lack easy access to preventive care and screenings. But there is another hurdle that is just as significant, and that is the lack of quality data on these social determinants. By comparing quality-of-care data with population, income, and ethnicity across the U.S., The costs are astronomical.

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Sequence Health

AUGUST 16, 2022

Patients can now consult with their doctors from the comfort of their homes and it’s not changing soon. Telehealth services have many advantages, including cost savings, improved patient outcomes, and increased access to care. When doctors can see patients virtually, they can make a diagnosis and start treatment faster.

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Sequence Health

JULY 21, 2022

Patients can now consult with their doctors from the comfort of their homes and it’s not changing soon. Telehealth services have many advantages, including cost savings, improved patient outcomes, and increased access to care. When doctors can see patients virtually, they can make a diagnosis and start treatment faster.

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Sheppard Health Law

MARCH 6, 2024

1] Health care market participants (i.e. doctors and nurses) provided first-hand testimony of alleged decreased staffing and lower quality of care after PE acquisitions. FOOTNOTES [1] More information regarding enforcers’ increased scrutiny of interlocks under Section 8 of the Clayton Act is available here. [2]

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Wisconsin Healthcare Leadership

MAY 2, 2024

Author: John Ford , AIA, NCARB, EDAC, LEED AP | Senior Design Architect and Associate How can hospitals be more resilient, flexible, and efficient in unprecedented and unpredictable situations? They had only 34 beds available at one of their hospitals and projected demand of up to 250 beds by early May.

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Patient Safety Movement

JULY 25, 2023

Next, he recognized the tragic losses that have occurred to loved ones because of preventable errors. Hospital-acquired infections, misdiagnoses, medication errors—these are process errors and have been significantly reduced by some healthcare systems. How did airlines become so safe? Healthcare outcomes data should be transparent.

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Accountable Care Doctors

JUNE 14, 2021

“Primary care must be supported as the hub of integrated service delivery, with an emphasis on delivering preventive care and coordinating services through the various settings and specializations. Having person-centered metrics versus tracking activity-centered tasks will tell us that we are delivering true quality of care.

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Accountable Care Doctors

JUNE 14, 2021

“Primary care must be supported as the hub of integrated service delivery, with an emphasis on delivering preventive care and coordinating services through the various settings and specializations. Having person-centered metrics versus tracking activity-centered tasks will tell us that we are delivering true quality of care.

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Sheppard Health Law

JULY 7, 2022

The bill imposes a new formidable regulatory hurdle for deals by requiring the Attorney General to approve, deny, or conditionally approve all transactions involving for-profit medical groups, health systems, pharmacy benefit managers, health plans, health insurers and hospitals, where the value of such transaction exceeds $15 million.

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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 1, 2023

Save the Date: June 1-2, 2023 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit The 10-year anniversary marks professionals like you making a significant difference in eliminating preventable medical errors. Please visit psmf.org for more details. Yours, Michael A.E.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 7, 2023

Tammi Jantzen, Co-founder, Astarte Medical Protocol Driven Care Often proclaimed as the most effective method of reducing costs for hospitals, standardization is said to promote quality patient care at a cost-effective price. billion in additional healthcare spending per year.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 23, 2023

While the distribution of vaccines has allowed for a version of pre-pandemic life to resume, hospitals are still not recovered from the high rates of hospitalizations that occurred in March 2020, and the indirect costs of the pandemic continue to loom over the American population as a result of strained health systems.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Children’s Hospital and the Stollery Children’s Hospital. Maren Batalden, MD, MPH: the Chief Quality Officer at the Cambridge Health Alliance, an integrated community health system serving seven towns in metro-northwest Boston, Massachusetts, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 31, 2023

In recognition of the procedural burden our existing processes and systems exact, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has encouraged states to use all available strategies to streamline redeterminations and prevent eligible enrollees from losing coverage due to procedural issues.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 1, 2022

Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs) are a new provider type established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 to address the growing concern over closures of rural hospitals. Critical Access Hospitals. For more information on Rural Emergency Hospital and Critical Access Hospital Conditions of Participation, visit: [link].

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Patient Safety Movement

JUNE 28, 2023

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Commonwealth Fund, the United States has the highest maternal death rate of any developed nation, and Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 18, 2022

The EHR is the best way to support the immediate and long-term trajectory of a patient’s health by allowing for more efficient information gathering and information analysis along the continuum of care, including preventive care, through medical incidents, rehabilitation and maintenance.

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GoMoHealth

JULY 7, 2021

It’s clear that patients are clamoring for better-quality treatment and one of the answers to these pleas has been the advent of value-based care. Simply put, value-based care seeks to reduce spending while improving treatment outcomes. How GoMo Health Facilitates Value-Based Care in Various Diseases.

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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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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2023

A recent study found that when a patient is admitted to the hospital, harm occurs nearly 24 percent of the time. Another report revealed that nearly 1 in 4 Medicare patients have experienced harm in the hospital. What’s worse, a considerable portion of this is preventable.

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Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Of particular concern, according to the article, “even if doctors recommend genetic testing, they may lack the expertise to determine which tests people need and how to interpret the results. Research has shown sufficient, high-quality staffing is closely linked to the quality-of-care residents receive.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

health care financing regime of volume-based payment didn’t fare well as millions of patients postponed or cancelled procedures and visits for fear of contracting the virus in the halls, offices and clinics of hospitals and doctor’s offices. hospitals were losing $1.4 hospitals were losing $1.4 ” This $1.4

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Etactics

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Did you know that poor billing practices cause American doctors to lose around $125 billion each year ? Preventing denial codes is essential if you want to keep a steady revenue flow. This is an easily preventable billing error, which we are going to go over in this blog. These codes provide data about the quality of care given.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The six virtual care programs are as follows. First, Urgent Care Telehealth. As a result, staff anticipate realizing higher quality of care outcomes in these two patient populations.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The resulting improved transparency on quality of care then allows for identifying best practices for others to learn from and is likely to attract the interest of public funding bodies who are increasingly interested in reimbursing for value.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Americans face high costs and hassle factors in health care. But more people are taking care into their own hands, and welcome a growing role for technology to play in enabling self-care, supporting prevention, and improving treatment of diagnosed conditions, according to The Future of Connected Health , a consumer survey from ResMed.

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Cloud Blogs

APRIL 26, 2021

Instead of focusing improvement resources on limited populations and acute care, effective PHM strategies drive transformation that addresses all levels of healthcare delivery, including prevention and care management. diet, exercise, tobacco use, alcohol, and drug use), clinical care (e.g.,

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Whether retail clinics, telehealth, or asynchronous physician visits via mobile health apps — consumers’ adoption of these sites, away from traditional brick-and-mortar doctors’ offices and ambulatory care clinics, has hovered around 10%, Oliver Wyman gauges in this report. This survey was conducted among 2,509 U.S.

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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Efforts to make health care more affordable can target several problems that lead to high and rising hospital costs. Hospital and physician costs make up the majority of medical expenditures in the U.S. and rising hospital prices directly contribute to higher insurance premiums and make care less affordable for consumers.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

These environments will showcase the end-to-end care pathway from smart ambulances, control centres, hospital wards, General Practices (GPs) consultation rooms to care homes. The service harnesses the adaptability of mobile devices to allow doctors and hospitals to provide more virtual visits and consultations.

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Vie Healthcare

JULY 12, 2023

He also explains why patient engagement is not a marketing issue, why its highest purpose is outcomes, and the need for hospitals to ‘’care for the people who care for their patients.’’ I’m also big into educating and empowering more people on ways they can live healthier lives and avoid preventable disease.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Population health management has become an important competency for hospitals and health systems. Overall health depends on ensuring that patients get timely, medically appropriate preventive care and that patients with chronic conditions are proactively followed to prevent future complications.

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