Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In honor of World Health Organization World Patient Safety Day 2023, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation hosted a webinar dedicated to the theme of “Empowering Patients.” Sue Robins, BA : a Canadian healthcare activist who has held family leadership positions with the B.C.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

HIMSS is calling on healthcare stakeholders to get involved in two initiatives to help expand access to quality care for underserved and at-risk populations. As part of its Global Health Equity Week, HIMSS (parent organization of Healthcare IT News), is promoting two policy campaigns, at the federal and state level, respectively.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 24, 2023

In an attempt to lower administrative burden, Cigna Healthcare — the health insurance arm of The Cigna Group (NYSE: CI) — announced that it is removing nearly 25% of medical services from its prior authorization requirements. The legislation would mandate the adoption of electronic prior authorization for Medicare Advantage plans.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

1 of 2024 and for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans by 2025. Intrepid USA Healthcare Services CEO John Kunysz is one of the provider leaders that has been very vocal about the prior authorization problem in home health care for years. Prior authorization requirements will be dropped for home health care in commercial plans by Jan.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 12, 2024

What You Should Know: – Innovaccer , a healthcare IT company, announced today the acquisition of Pharmacy Quality Solutions (PQS ), a leader in Pharmacy-Payer performance technology. Value-based care focuses on rewarding quality outcomes over treatment volume, aiming to improve patient care and reduce costs.

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Patient Safety Movement

JULY 25, 2023

Don Berwick—one of the original giants in patient safety and a founding member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement—gave an inspiring keynote address. First, he recognized the superb healthcare force we have in the US, how dedicated they are, and how frustrated they are by the avoidable harm to patients that is occurring.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Tom Wriggins, Principal Industry Advisor at SAS John Maynard, CPA, CFE, AHFI Principal Solutions Architect at SAS In 2022, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established health equity as a pillar of its future work. Healthcare providers willing to commit fraud often do so at the expense of quality care.

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p3care

MAY 1, 2023

Sometimes, such occasions occur because the healthcare billing services are not competent to handle them. We understand the paramount necessity of identifying and preventing healthcare fraud and abuse. Fraudulent actions put patients’ trust and security in danger. While others do so to earn some financial advantages.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Musculoskeletal care is a critical service line in healthcare. healthcare system. "Throughout the process, the digital care management approach captures holistic, contextual data, creating a more meaningful, measurable and even predictive view for better patient care and outcomes," he added. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 17, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted QSO-23-19-Hospitals this morning (July 17, 2023). Medicare-certified hospitals have a regulatory obligation to care for patients in a safe setting under the Medicare Hospital Conditions of Participation at §482.13(c)(2).

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Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Joe’s passion for patient safety has been a driving force behind breakthrough developments in medical innovation at the company he founded, Masimo. It’s important to speak with a healthcare professional if any unusual changes in the breast or nipple are detected.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted this blog on Thursday, March 16, 2023. and Jonathan Blum, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – names you may recognize from CMS National Stakeholder Calls. Ensuring patient safety is at the heart of the Hippocratic Oath: First, Do No Harm.

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Readiness Rounds

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This approach helps reduce findings, improves patient safety, and supports sustainable performance improvement. What You Can Do Today to Reduce Regulatory Findings Photo: iStock Signature In today's healthcare landscape, hospitals are facing increasing pressure from accrediting organizations like The Joint Commission and DNV.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2022

During the first phase of the pandemic, both patients and providers embraced remote care, prompting an incredible spike in utilization – approximately 63 times pre-pandemic baseline levels among Medicare patients, new CMS data reveals. Fortunately, we already have the tools at hand to address the problem. About Doug Duskin.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 2, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Various factors associated with COVID-19 that negatively impacted patient safety and resulted in poor outcomes for nursing home residents are discussed in this primer, including NH staffing, racial and ethnic disparities, and poor quality of care.”.

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Healthcare Leadership Council

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

healthcare system needs is more paperwork. Unfortunately, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing a policy change that would assign more “busy work” to key players across the health sector. healthcare system is incredibly complex. The last thing the U.S. The modern U.S.

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Sheppard Health Law

AUGUST 11, 2022

The FQHC served predominantly low-income individuals [3] including Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and offered telehealth services to its patients through a telehealth application, which could be downloaded onto a smartphone. . The Arrangement.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2022

What You Should Know: – Glytec recently announced that it has been selected by CPS Solutions, LLC (CPS) , a leading provider of enterprise pharmacy solutions to hospitals and health systems, to serve as an insulin management technology resource for CPS’ more than 2,200 pharmacy professionals across 800-plus healthcare facilities nationwide.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has just released its findings and recommendations on patient safety in a report to U.S. Titled “A Transformational Effort on Patient Safety,” the report draws much-needed attention to the fact that patient safety is an urgent national public health issue.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 2, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. However, prior to issuing the guidance, the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) was declared, and CMS immediately redirected resources to address patient safety needs related to the PHE. Specifically, 28 of the 39 nursing homes had possible deficiencies.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS believes that healthcare workers have a right to provide care in a safe setting. CMS health and safety requirements do not preclude healthcare workers from taking appropriate action to protect themselves from workplace violence.

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Healthcare Leadership Council

OCTOBER 18, 2023

First, we’ve already witnessed that CMMI can have its greatest impact in helping to transition the healthcare system from its traditional fee-for-service orientation to a value-based framework. billion between 2011 and 2020.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 2, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This is a great example of what AHRQ does: create programs that make it simple to put evidence into practice—thus promoting patient safety and improving patients’ lives.”. per 1,000 resident days. Miller, M.D.,

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Healthcare Success

JULY 5, 2022

Generally speaking, doctors control large sums of money both professionally and personally, making them a highly desirable target audience for pharmaceutical companies, device and supply companies, SaaS, and even those outside the healthcare industry, like real estate brokers and investment advisors.

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Meditech

JANUARY 18, 2022

Sometimes, despite your best efforts, your ED becomes a revolving door of the same patients. At Ozarks Healthcare , we serve a community where 23% of the population lives below poverty level, and many residents are uninsured or on Medicaid/Medicare without supplemental insurance.

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Healthcare Leadership

APRIL 24, 2023

Last month on HCLDR we discussed the ideal patient discharge experience (patient separation for those in the EU and Australia). It got me thinking about another aspect of the patient journey that does not get attention – patient transfers and transitions between healthcare organizations. The Patient?

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Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In late April this year, the Office of Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) announced that it would make changes to its existing body of healthcare compliance program guidance (CPGs) as part of its current Modernization Initiative. [1]

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 31, 2022

Prior to joining InnovAge as CMO, Feifer served in various leadership roles at Genesis HealthCare. CHAP is an Arlington, Virginia-based independent and nonprofit organization — approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — that accredits home- and community-based care providers. Sciullo said in a statement.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Patient and resident health and safety are top priorities for CMS, and today’s actions are focused on ensuring every nursing home resident is cared for in a safe, high-quality environment,” said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure.

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Patient Safety Movement

AUGUST 25, 2023

At June’s World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, our CEO Dr. Michael Ramsay shared an optimistic perspective about the progress which can be made in patient safety in the next five years through data transparency and evidence-based medicine. “I

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Prior to COVID, policymakers and the medical industry had many assumptions about telehealth related to patient safety, quality of care, fraud, and provider and patient openness to virtual medical encounters.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 11, 2023

As required by statute, the fiscal year (FY) 2024 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and long-term care hospital prospective payment system (LTCH PPS) rule updates Medicare payments and policies for hospitals. This proposal builds on other policies to support access to care in rural and other underserved communities.

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Healthcare Leadership Council

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The bill would have, among other provisions, capped out-of-pocket costs for Medicare Part D beneficiaries at $3,100 annually, allowed beneficiaries to spread those costs over a full year instead of facing heavy charges up front, and reduced coinsurance levels in the initial coverage phase of Part D from 25 to 20 percent.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Navin Gupta: Prior to MatrixCare, I held a technology leadership role with Philips Healthcare. Philips was my first foray into health care and more specifically, acute care and patient monitoring. Care provided in a patient’s home is expected to increase considerably over the next few years.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Beta Healthcare Symposium Joe Kiani also recently gave a keynote at Beta Healthcare Group’s 2023 Annual Member Symposium focused on “Strategies for Improving Patient & Employee Safety,” held in Dana Point, California. Through this year’s slogan “Elevate the voice of patients!”

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 18, 2023

In 2023, traditional pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens will continue to move into the primary care and home health space, creating an expanded healthcare marketplace and more options than ever for consumers. We’ll also be much closer to the 2024 phase-in of a new Medicare Part D out-of-pocket cost cap for seniors.

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Etactics

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Such issues may include navigating billing models, payer requirements, and complicated Medicare guidelines. Patients with Alzheimer’s disease or other cognitive issues. State Medicaid and Medicare Part D plans make up the primary payers. Improving accuracy and enhancing patient safety while keeping data orderly and organized.

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