Readiness Rounds

AUGUST 28, 2023

How Patient Satisfaction (HCAHPS) is Impacted by the Hospital’s Physical Environment Patient satisfaction and HCAHPS improvements go far beyond medical expertise or outcome. The hospital environment plays a pivotal role in shaping a patient's (and visitors) experience and overall satisfaction.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

"It's a daily reality in our hospitals and clinics." There are significant issues around patient safety, model transparency, privacy and security, efficacy, regulation, education and more that need urgent addressing.

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Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

APRIL 28, 2017

Hospital corridors, by design, are wide. Inevitably, these COWs wander from floor to floor and multiply, creating risks for patient safety. Inevitably, these COWs wander from floor to floor and multiply, creating risks for patient safety. In many hospitals, there is neither a COW room nor a COW place.

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Healthcare Success

MARCH 6, 2024

Whether you run a multilocation healthcare organization, hospital, or health system, understanding the distinction between search engine optimization (SEO) vs. search engine marketing (SEM)—and how each distinctly helps your business—is important for several reasons. This knowledge helps you: Allocate resources more efficiently.

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Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

DECEMBER 2, 2016

How can patients have good experiences if they do not feel safe? And, how is patient safety evidenced beyond the accidents that do not happen? Safety precautions are ever present in our daily lives. Or the protocols for preventing falls that seem inconvenient because the patient seems too healthy to need them.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2022

’ “We know all the benefits of digital health tools and services in terms of patient safety, care quality and cost reduction,” said Dr Seroussi. ” Healthcare without Harm produced a global roadmap in 2021, which lies out three pathways where hospitals can make improvements.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In this – part one of our two-part interview with the innovator – we talk about generative AI in healthcare and how hospital chief information officers and other health IT leaders should be preparing for a fast-evolving future for the technology. What role do you think generative AI should play in healthcare today?

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Health Populi

JULY 8, 2020

The core business of hospitals is patient care, often baked with teaching and research. But wait — there’s more, asserts the Lown Institute in their approach to ranking America’s Best Hospitals in 2020. The Institute was surprised by the similarity of nonprofit and for-profit hospitals for civic leadership.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Broadly, patients being discharged from the hospital to home health care will not need advanced approval. BCBS of Massachusetts touted what it will do for hospitals and patients looking forward to discharge. “We Prior authorization requirements will be dropped for home health care in commercial plans by Jan.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 11, 2024

Blockchain provides a standardized platform, breaking down silos and facilitating seamless information exchange between hospitals, labs, and doctors. Empowered Patients, Streamlined Processes: Patients regain control over their health data with blockchain.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 4, 2024

Ali Morin, MSN, RN-BC, VP of Nursing Informatics at symplr In the ever-changing landscape of healthcare, where tomorrow’s challenges are unpredictable, the need for strategically staffed and crisis-ready hospitals has never been more crucial.

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Home Health Care

MAY 30, 2022

The traditional brick-and-mortar hospital system is broken, often leaving patients in a condition that’s worse than when they first arrived. The findings throw further support for facility-based care alternatives, including the types of hospital-at-home models that lean heavily on home health and home care agencies.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

MICHAEL RAMSAY Dear Patient Safety Advocates, I am excited to share some updates about the work we have been doing and introduce you to our new Chief Operating Officer – Dr. Sanaz Massoumi PhD. Dr. Massoumi joins us from Keck Medicine where she was Director of Regulatory and Patient Safety, Quality, and Outcomes Management.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 3, 2022

The initial focus was on specific groups such as healthcare workers outside of hospital systems and educators, but expanded later to the general public – with an emphasis on those facing barriers to care. After operating on paper for a few weeks, the agency launched the tool. "Those things don’t go away!"

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It was established with the goal of improving the quality of health care services and patient safety through accreditation and certification programs. We’ve also recently added accreditation for hospitals which has allowed us to make an even greater impact across the continuum.

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KHN

APRIL 16, 2024

The heart devices in question have been associated with thousands of reports of patients’ injuries and deaths, as described in a KFF Health News investigation late last year. ” said Sanket Dhruva , a cardiologist and an expert in medical device safety and regulation at the University of California-San Francisco.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Amid widespread staffing shortages across the healthcare sector, the need for IoT-enabled digital transformation in hospitals and patient care facilities is increasingly clear. Fully operable with Bluetooth, the sensors do not need to be added to the hospital’s IT infrastructure. Streamlining Compliance Procedures.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 21, 2023

Data privacy and security Within pharmaceutical , hospital, clinic and other healthcare settings, there is a need to balance the requirements of data protection and security with the need for innovation such as real-time alerting, predictive analysis, and telemedicine.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Today, manufacturers and healthcare providers don’t need to wait on the government to improve patient safety. Here are four things I believe healthcare workers need to know about medical device recalls to improve patient safety. Hospitals aren’t always told the lot number.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Meanwhile, policymakers need to understand the value of home health and home care for favorable, future-facing regulations to be implemented or withheld. This example is super regional, but if we’re talking about a hospital stay, one night could cost you $4,000,” he said. We don’t have deeper pockets than the hospital industry.

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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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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 31, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare During a pandemic or other emergency, health care facilities face significant challenges to quickly onboard additional health care providers when hospital admissions and intensive care units’ occupancy rapidly increase.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 6, 2023

In every instance, a potential threat to patient safety is present. Drug diversion can also pose risks to staff safety and regulatory compliance, as can be seen across all types of healthcare facilities and, across all clinical disciplines. Sandy Still, Pharm.D., administration, waste, or return).

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KHN

DECEMBER 21, 2023

” As the recall played out, federal regulators discovered that Medtronic had delayed acting — and warning patients of possible hazards with the pumps — despite amassing tens of thousands of complaints about the rings, government records show. . “No, it hasn’t,” Sharlin said.

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Healthcare Leadership

MARCH 19, 2023

In a paper published in 2021, the authors has this to say about the importance of discharge planning: Patients who do not have enough information about their discharge plans have decreased treatment compliance, decreased patient safety, increased emergency department (ED) recidivism, and poor satisfaction.

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Healthcare Success

JULY 5, 2022

What’s more, most doctors work in a hospital or multilocation medical practice, making it even more challenging to identify key decision-makers. How many are employees of a group practice or hospital? In fact, nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today, according to Avalere Health.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 7, 2023

We also include information about the hospital trigger tool reviewers used to screen for adverse events and suggestions for finding and recording key information. Protecting patients from harm is a goal shared by OIG and the health care community.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 25, 2024

Most of the largest hacks targeted vendors who bill, mail, or provide other services for hospitals, doctors, and other health providers. Lastly, regulatory compliance should not be overlooked, particularly in industries subject to stringent cybersecurity regulations such as healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2023

Trend #1: Consolidation of IT Procurement In recent years, changes to the health systems in countries such as the US and UK, for example, are making standalone hospitals a thing of the past. They will only consider cloud providers who ensure sensitive data is stored securely while adhering to industry regulations.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 4, 2023

Designed to deliver optimized workflows and revenues, greater clinical insights, and enhanced patient safety and care quality, healthcare analytics plays an essential role in improving core competencies and strengthening operations across the care continuum.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 23, 2023

This strategy would also improve clinician burnout by making the primary provider the head of a team that could manage a greater number of people, meaning they could increase their own revenue while ensuring better access for their patients. Angie Franks, CEO of ABOUT Healthcare Inc.,

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 21, 2023

It is increasingly understood that threats to healthcare cybersecurity present a shared challenge and therefore a shared responsibility, including among those whose principal responsibility is patient care and healthcare quality.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

A judge in Ohio ruled on Monday that a hospital in the region must administer ivermectin to a patient very sick with COVID-19 in their ICU, despite the decision by the medical staff, in agreement with recent statements by the U.S. By Jennifer S. This post analyzes some of the most pressing legal, regulatory, and ethical concerns.

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ACHE

MARCH 4, 2021

Hospitals and health systems are now faced with new opportunities, given an exponential growth in the volume of data collected, and the challenge of harnessing that data to understand the effectiveness of new care delivery approaches. Maintaining Essential Patient Care During a Pandemic – Perspectives from Children’s Hospitals *.

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Lexis Nexis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Not only can we help with the data management, standardization, and regulation, but we can also tokenize data and link it to other data sources in a de-identified manner. By layering in multiple datasets, such as identity and SDoH data, we can create a more complete, accurate and current view of patients’ health,” explains Jeff.

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Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

OIG emphasizes that the summaries are not meant to establish or interpret any program rules or regulations, but rather to create awareness and provide tools and resources to aid compliance efforts. Further, OIG has implemented an FAQ process to provide informal feedback to the health care community on various topics. FOOTNOTES [1] 88 Fed.

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Lexis Nexis

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

For example, in the provider market we help hospital systems better understand physician splitting behavior and how they can make operational changes to address potential lost revenue. Doing so not only ensure they stay compliant with state and federal regulations, but it also provides members with a best-in-class consumer experience.

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