Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Serving veterans in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico from its 70 offices, the organization develops training and career services, works on accessibility in public buildings and spaces and provides health and rehabilitation opportunities. THE LARGER TREND.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

– The strategic acquisition strengthens ShiftMed’s position as the industry’s first platform to support health systems across all care settings, from hospitals to post-acute care facilities and even in-home care. Their “intelligent routing” system ensures optimal allocation of staffing needs.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Despite evidence that integrated COPD care can reduce 30-day hospital readmissions by as much as 57 percent, and that pulmonary rehabilitation can reduce COPD costs by as much as $650 per week, patients lack meaningful access. The product strives to close access barriers through easy integration with existing care plans.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

There is mixed evidence about whether hospital mergers improve quality. 2022) investigates the impact of a recent hospital merger on quality in New York. The merging hospitals were described as follows: NYU Langone Health (NYULH) is an urban academic medical system. A recent paper by Wang et al.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

While CMS’ improper payments reporting programs are designed to protect the integrity of CMS programs, not all improper payments are fraud or abuse. Those sectors were skilled nursing facilities, outpatient hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and hospice. In 2022, the improper payment rate was 7.46%.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 17, 2022

We’re facing another surge in COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations, plus other health care demands. [00:12:00] In addition to that, the HHVBP demonstration program showed how much could be saved just in reduced hospitalizations via home health care. 00:12:00] Holly: Yes. Eventually, they were.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 5, 2024

Already, the integration of data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, telemedicine, and interoperability have begun to shift how healthcare is delivered; away from care that’s centered around disease management and toward care that’s more holistic, personalized, and patient-centric.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

DispatchHealth Raises $330M for Hospital-at-Home Care. MEDITECH, SeamlessMD Collaborate on Digital Health Integration. MEDITECH announced that its Expanse customers in Canada can now integrate directly with digital care journey platform SeamlessMD. Evangelical Community Hospital Switches from Allscripts to Epic.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 21, 2023

But they are not able to provide visibility into the potential physical and psychological impacts surrounding mobility, fall risk, and need for rehabilitation. It is already being used to reflect frailty status – identifying increased risks of adverse events such as falls, prolonged hospital stays, and overall functional decline.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 2, 2023

Participating in home-based cardiac rehabilitation — following a heart attack or cardiac procedure — can help lower the possibility of death resulting from heart-related complications. Specifically, home-based cardiac rehabilitation led to a 36% decrease in death within four years of participation.

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Icanotes

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

While the stigma around seeking therapy and other types of treatment for these conditions is much milder than in the past, some people with serious mental illnesses may require rehabilitation. These programs are critical for helping individuals manage their symptoms, integrate into their communities and reach their treatment goals.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This collaboration will help accelerate physical rehabilitation by improving patient engagement and care plan completion. With the integration of Cipher Skin, patients and providers can now monitor and treat MSK. Why It Matters. Parker Now is a cloud-based subscription with real-time access to an EHR, RPM, and much more.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Fuchs, who will lead the Department in creating an “Intelligent Fabric” that will integrate machine learning and AI-driven decision-making throughout the Health System’s eight hospitals. – Dr. Thomas J. The MSDW team offers a list of data services to access custom data sets, custom data marts, and de-identified data.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2023

It gives us an opportunity to really do the transition from hospital to home. The Tyler, Texas-based Choice Health at Home is a home health, hospice, rehabilitation, and home care services provider. We have a great joint venture with the University of Texas system. It operates locations across Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

For example, a home health provider working with a health system or Medicare Advantage (MA) plan that is struggling with readmissions could tailor their palliative intervention to focus on understanding that transition from the hospital. Tyler, Texas-based Choice is a home health, hospice and rehabilitation services provider.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2024

Our services reduce cost by providing care for many of these individuals in non-institutional home and community settings and reducing hospitalizations.” Based in Louisville, Kentucky, and backed by the investment firm KKR, BrightSpring provides home- and community-based provider services to complex populations.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Based in Nashville, Tennessee, it is a highly integrated home-based senior care provider that delivers home health, hospice, palliative care, infusion therapy and advanced care management. The Tyler, Texas-based Choice is home health, hospice and rehabilitation services provider.

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NASHP

MARCH 14, 2022

in hospitals, embedded within enhanced primary care, via home health). of hospitalized patients receive an initial palliative care consultation, although roughly half of hospitalizations nationwide are for those with multiple chronic conditions. Other rehabilitative services and supports (e.g., Mental Health Professional.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community. States have a range of tools and policy levers at their disposal to build capacity for integrated behavioral health approaches.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2023

Hospitals’ and health systems’ core competencies have been serving patients “within the walls” of their organizations and institutions. This report is based on detailed interviews with experts in 30 US health system conducted between November 2022 and March 2023.

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Geek Doctor

MAY 14, 2021

Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, and Medically Home join forces to offer patients the best of both worlds, forging a partnership that has the potential to redefine the hospital industry. One of the problems facing most patients who require hospital admission is removing their familiar surroundings and emotional supports.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

To meet expectations and further improve patient care, especially in centers like skilled nursing facilities, the widespread integration of 5G technology will be key. The possibility of remote surgery increases substantially with the integration of 5G technology. Increased Potential of Remote Surgery. In other words: it can save lives.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

We are actively integrating the Kindred at Home operations, and results post-integration have largely been in line with expectations,” Diamond said. Led by Dr. Joseph Mayer, onehome helps manage a range of post-acute needs, from infusion and nursing services, to rehabilitation services and durable medical equipment (DME).

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 12, 2022

The overall Encompass Health footprint includes 145 hospitals, 249 home health locations and 95 hospice locations in 42 states and Puerto Rico. Moving forward, PHMC will integrate VNA into its family of programs and subsidiaries.

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Health Care Success

MARCH 22, 2022

Of course, hospitals and health systems are motivated to help patients achieve their best possible health (in part by insurance incentives) and out of hospitals or emergency rooms. In a recent blog post, I shared how healthcare consumerism has changed how hospitals and health systems market their products and services.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 9, 2022

In addition to the home health and hospice segment, Encompass has a network of 145 in-patient rehabilitation hospitals. Another benefit is bypassing the integration process – and any personnel hurdles that may arise. Overall, the segment does about $1.1 With about $3.9

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NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The “National Forum on Advancing High-Quality, Equitable Care Coordination for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs” centered on two key topics for improving care coordination systems for CYSHCN: integrated care coordination and the care coordination workforce.

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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. About Maura Cash.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Medical respite and short term post-hospitalization housing were covered through the Section 1115 demonstration. Note that part of CalAIM is approved through a 1915(b) in-lieu-of services approach.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

To stay relevant in this future scenario of more virtual and retail health channels, a plurality of health providers would consider aligning with various non-hospital healthcare providers such as skilled nursing facilities, outpatient centers, retail clinics, home health agencies, acute rehabilitation, and hospice agencies.

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Cloud Blogs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare provides trusted and integrated capabilities that deliver automation and efficiency on high-value workflows as well as deep data analysis functionality for both structured and unstructured data, that enable healthcare organizations to turn insight into action. Today's launch is just the beginning.

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NASHP

JULY 24, 2023

Evidence suggests that vertical integration and growing consolidation in health care leads to higher hospital and provider prices and higher total spending — all while having little to no impact on improving quality of care for patients, reducing utilization, or improving efficiency.

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NASHP

JUNE 12, 2023

45 million and $4 million are appropriated to the Department of Public Health and Department of Rehabilitation respectively and similarly divided up for a multiple strategies that include a public awareness campaign, overdose data collection, and vocational rehabilitation services.

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Health Advances

MARCH 17, 2023

Carlsmed has managed to attain NTAP – CMS pass-through payment in the hospital at one of the highest historical rates. Through vertical integration and their own manufacturing, the company hopes to improve scale. Personalization even extended beyond the implant realm as we see innovation in the rehabilitation realm.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These coordinated state efforts, often formalized in governor’s task forces, cross-agency workgroups, and legislative commissions, are predicated on an ideological shift away from solely punitive responses and toward integrating treatment into the criminal legal system. At the same time, hospital emergency departments have experienced a 37.2

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Icanotes

MARCH 21, 2024

Gaining information about medications, previous psychiatric hospitalizations, and suicidal/ homicidal history will guide the diagnosis and treatment plan. These rehabilitation centers offer 24-hour care and support. Level 4 treatments are delivered in a hospital or hospital-like setting.

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NASHP

AUGUST 30, 2022

States are taking different approaches to incentivize the integration of Medicaid coverage for peer services in behavioral health. Community stabilization is an alternative to or diversion from inpatient hospitalization, residential crisis stabilization unit, or other, more intensive level of care.

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