Home Health Care

MARCH 1, 2024

The new study is from researchers with the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at University of Washington. “Of Source: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at University of Washington Traditional Medicare covers over 58 million beneficiaries on an annual basis, costing nearly $17 billion in 2021. fewer nursing visits, 2.7%

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Medicare Rehabilitation Physical Therapy Nursing 115

Healthcare It News

AUGUST 1, 2022

Continuity and access to care for patients living with chronic diseases or going through cardiac and orthopedic rehabilitation are one of the most challenging areas in healthcare. Faced with these challenges, Essen Health Care turned to health IT vendor WizeCare's enterprise-wide virtual rehabilitation and remote monitoring technology.

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Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Telemedicine Healthcare 302

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers created a motion and muscle engagement monitoring system for unsupervised physical rehabilitation, which could help with injuries and better mobility for the elderly and athletes, they say. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Hospitals Prevention 207

Healthcare It News

MARCH 6, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS SMHS, which provides hospital and community-based public health care services in southern metropolitan Perth, started the LifeFit SurgFit in 2020-2021 as a "holistic approach" to preparing patients for surgery.

Rehabilitation 226

Rehabilitation Public Health services Integration Hospitals 226

Home Health Care

MARCH 26, 2024

Part of that conversation with hospital and health system partners includes convincing case managers that patients will be better suited at home. Our value prop to hospitals when promoting palliative care is, ‘We want to continue these difficult conversations in a less stressful environment.’” And then what happens?

Hospitals 61

Hospitals Rehabilitation Home Care Nursing 61

Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2023

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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Rehabilitation Patient Experience Quality Improvement Hospitals 238

Meditech

MARCH 26, 2024

Hospitals often transfer patients out for a higher level of care or to rehabilitation providers. That’s what makes the healthcare industry special. Teamwork is necessary from organization to organization. You see it on the frontline every day. These transitions must be seamless for the benefit of the patient.

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Rehabilitation Hospitals Healthcare 93

Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

A special balance test originally used by NASA in its space programmes has been adopted by an Abu Dhabi hospital to help determine the cause of prolonged or recurrent dizziness. NASA continues to utilise EquiTest for the routine evaluation and balance rehabilitation of its astronauts. ” ON THE RECORD.

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Rehabilitation Physical Therapy Hospitals 253

KHN

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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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Medicare Hospital IT Hospitals Patient Safety 136

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

" The pandemic also further reduced access to routine care leading to an increase in preventable complications due to chronic conditions, including emergency room visits, hospitalizations and overall healthcare costs, she added. School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science (UMPT). " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE.

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Telemedicine Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Urgent Care 298

HIT Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

What You Should Know: CareSource , a nonprofit managed care organization, today announced a $1M investment in Augment Therapy , a digital health company enhancing rehabilitative healthcare and exercise through immersive and gamified technology.

Physical Therapy 97

Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Nursing Hospitals 97

Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

Health Journeys targets specific behavioral health challenges that military service members face, including anxiety, sleep deprivation, burnout, chronic pain, depression, anger, PTSD, grief, addiction, traumatic brain injury and injury rehabilitation.

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Rehabilitation Accountability Health Technology Hospitals 278

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

hospitals’ operating margins went negative in January 2021 after turning north for the first time in December 2020 since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the February 2021 Hospital Flash Report from Kaufman Hall, commissioned by AHA, the American Hospitals Association.

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Hospitals Rehabilitation Telemedicine Healthcare 81

Healthcare It News

JULY 13, 2022

The surgical pre-rehabilitation programme dubbed My Prehab was developed in partnership with Health Translation SA, The Hospital Research Foundation, and healthcare tech company Personify Care. Last year, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital , also a part of CALHN, tapped Personify Care to help digitise its Direct Access Colonoscopy programme.

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Rehabilitation Hospitals Patient Experience Home Care 241

Home Health Care

JUNE 26, 2022

Specifically, the partnership will allow Memorial Hermann to deliver acute hospital care, post-hospitalization skilled nursing care and palliative care services in the home setting. The company’s hospital care at home model has been able to lower readmission rates by 44%, and decrease hospital length of stay by 35%.

Hospitals 81

Hospitals Rehabilitation Home Care Patient Experience 81

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2021

hospitals, with total annual costs of treatment and rehabilitation estimated at $62 billion. Early prediction of at-risk patients that require emergency department evaluation and hospitalization can dramatically improve outcomes. Studies show that sepsis is the leading cause of death in U.S.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Rehabilitation Prevention 98

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.

Hospitals 64

Hospitals Rehabilitation Quality Improvement Accountability 64

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

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.

Rehabilitation 210

Rehabilitation Hospitals Quality Improvement Integration 210

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Built on advanced technology with a growing library of VR-based activities and experiences, the REAL Immersive System platform is comprised of two product solutions: REAL y-Series for clinical rehabilitation and REAL i-Series for wellness. The need for innovative rehabilitation therapy has never been greater.

Rehabilitation 97

Rehabilitation Physical Therapy Healthcare Hospitals 97

Meditech

JULY 26, 2023

As Juneau County’s sole full-service hospital, Mile Bluff serves an estimated 55,000 residents in an eight-county region. From providers to patients, human connection leads the care experience, and the Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston, WI embraces that philosophy.

Rehabilitation 82

Rehabilitation Healthcare Hospitals 82

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 7, 2022

What You Should Know: – Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Massachusetts General Hospital have created an unsupervised physical rehabilitation system called MuscleRehab. Virtual Reality Driven Physical Rehabilitation.

Rehabilitation 98

Rehabilitation Hospitals Healthcare 98

Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 1, 2022

On Friday, May 27, 2022, CMS posted updates to QSO-21-03-Hospitals/CAHs. On July 29, 2020, HHS published updated guidance for hospital COVID-19 reporting: [link]. The guidance states that hospitals should report specified information at least once daily through one of the prescribed methods described below. Facilities to Report.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Rehabilitation Medicaid Healthcare 52

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.

Nursing 52

Nursing Rehabilitation Home Care Integration 52

Home Health Care

JULY 15, 2022

PAC settings include home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), in-patient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) and long-term care hospitals (LTCHs). The American Hospital Association (AHA) is among the health care groups that have come out swinging against the unified PAC payment model draft. PAC setting types.

Hospitals 76

Hospitals Rehabilitation Medicare Medicaid 76

Briggs Healthcare

MAY 10, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is providing a virtual training program that will review the updated guidance for the IRF-PAI 4.0 and the LCDS 5.0 for providers in the IRF and LTCH settings. Part 1 of the Virtual Training Program is now available.

Rehabilitation 52

Rehabilitation Hospitals Medicaid Medicare 52

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

Hospitals 152

Hospitals Life Sciences Telemedicine Primary Care 152

Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2022

Personify Care has recently supported several digital transformation initiatives across hospitals and health facilities in Australia by implementing its digital pathways. One of them, the Central Adelaide Local Health Network , was able to launch a surgical pre-rehabilitation programme, which helps patients become fit for surgery.

Rehabilitation 177

Rehabilitation Hospitals Home Care Nursing 177

Home Health Care

APRIL 3, 2024

We know from our clinical partners that local hospitals are experiencing a capacity crunch – we’re doing what we can to help,” BCBS of Massachusetts Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sandhya Rao told HHCN at the time. “By This change will also reduce delays for Blue Cross members ready to transition their care from hospital to home.”

Rehabilitation 65

Rehabilitation Home Care Quality of Care Hospitals 65

Healthcare It News

JULY 18, 2022

Erie County Medical Center Corporation , a public benefit corporation that operates a hospital, Erie County Medical Center, located in Buffalo, New York, failed to timely provide an individual with a complete copy of his medical records.

Healthcare 312

Healthcare Rehabilitation Hospitals Nursing 312

Meditech

AUGUST 3, 2021

At Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital , we provide an array of services that include highly coordinated rehabilitation and medical care as well as comprehensive interdisciplinary therapies. Because the care we deliver is so specialized, we often find ourselves thinking outside the box.

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Rehabilitation Hospitals 84

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.

Rehabilitation 220

Rehabilitation Medicaid Population Health Integration 220

HIT Consultant

MARCH 21, 2022

Cardiac rehabilitation is indicated following a heart attack, heart surgery (stent placement, coronary artery bypass surgery, or valvular surgery) as well as for patients who chronically manage congestive heart failure or stable angina. Recora is redesigning heart health, beginning with cardiac recovery.

Rehabilitation 98

Rehabilitation Medicare Nursing Hospitals 98

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

during 2017-2022, creating a substantial economic burden for affected hospitals. Opioid overdose patients that present to the ED are at high risk for multiple organ failure, hospitalization, increased costs due to ICU stays and unplanned readmissions following discharge. hospitals are $95.43 billion annually, or 7.86

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Medicaid Rehabilitation Accountability 52

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. Unfortunately, the current care system for COPD remains fragmented and difficult for many patients to access.

Rehabilitation 98

Rehabilitation Integration Hospitals 98

Meditech

MAY 3, 2022

After speaking with Julia Hanigsberg, the President & CEO of Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, it’s easy to see why she’s received so many accolades.

Rehabilitation 81

Rehabilitation Healthcare Hospitals 81

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Then, there are other companies that are doing rehabilitation programs. If you've looked at the news over the past six months, there's a financial strain on hospitals because of the fact they're paying more for clinicians to fill gaps. And I think sometimes the variety of offerings can create confusion.

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Telemedicine Doctors Nursing Rehabilitation 245

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Those sectors were skilled nursing facilities, outpatient hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and hospice. In the latest report, home health was not included as one of the sectors contributing most to overall improper payments.

Rehabilitation 102

Rehabilitation Medicare Medicaid Nursing 102