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Personify Care's digital patient pathway project to go SA-wide

Healthcare It News

Digital patient pathways had been deployed in over 20 speciality areas and at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and SA Dental. Since then, it has reduced workload pressure on front-line hospital staff while providing convenient care access to patients.

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Key to lasting clinical adoption of digital solutions

Healthcare It News

In December, the program went live at the South Australian Medical Imaging (SAMI) Nuclear Medicine Theranostics Service of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH) in Adelaide. The service's previous digital survey solution relied on patients to complete the survey while in the clinic waiting room using a hospital-supplied device.

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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

KHN

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

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Impact of hospital mergers on quality: a case study

Healthcare ECONOMIST

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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Coming Soon: 2023 CMS Health Equity Confidential Feedback Reports to be Released Next Month

Briggs Healthcare

CMS will release the Health Equity Confidential Feedback Reports through the Internet Quality Improvement & Evaluation System (iQIES) reports folders. The PAC Health Equity Confidential Feedback Reports will stratify the DTC and MSPB measures by dual-enrollment status and race/ethnicity.

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Updated Provider Demographic Update Instructions

Briggs Healthcare

These demographic data include such items as the provider name, provider-mailing address, provider physical address, State, ZIP Code, etc. Additionally, these same demographic data are displayed on the public reporting websites such as the Provider Data Catalog (PDC).

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Updated Provider Demographic Data Process

Briggs Healthcare

CMS will be transitioning to a new data source for a provider’s demographic data for all five Post-Acute Care (PAC) provider types (Skilled Nursing Facilities / Nursing Facilities (SNF/NFs), Home Health Agencies (HHAs), Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs), Long-Term Care Hospitals (LTCHs) and Hospices).