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

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Broadly, patients being discharged from the hospital to home health care will not need advanced approval. The types of care that will be impacted include physical therapy, occupational therapy, home health aide and nurse visits, and social worker visits. 1 of 2024 and for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans by 2025.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 1, 2022

IoT SaaS is the interconnected use of remote IoT sensing and monitoring tools with AI-powered prescriptive analytics – essentially an enhanced version of traditional IoT sensing and monitoring technology that empowers healthcare facilities to collect, analyze and act on inventory performance data for compliance and patient safety.

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Readiness Rounds

AUGUST 28, 2023

Headlines: The Halo Effect: Elevating Patient Satisfaction (HCAHPS) Through Environment 5 Crucial Aspects of a Hospital's Physical Environment #1: Cleanliness: Beyond Aesthetics - A Pillar of Patient Safety #2: Maintenance: A Reflection of Excellence in Patient Care #3. Regulators often cite ceiling tiles.

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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. How did ACHC become the leader in the home health and hospice accreditation space ? ACHC is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1986.

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Bill Of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

The AMA’s stated justification for its aggressive scope of practice lobbying is, roughly, that allowing patients to be cared for by providers with less than a decade of training compromises patient safety and increases health care costs. Now is a pivotal time for the AMA to reconsider its aggressive scope of practice lobbying.

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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. Everything is there: the economics, patient safety and people want to stay home. It’s better for them.”.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 23, 2023

For example, telesitting technology allows health operations staff to raise their patient management abilities from one patient per staff member to up to 16 with virtual monitoring. It’s time to ask nurses to do less. Morrow, M.D., It’s a step forward to ease some of the daily administrative workloads.

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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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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. . ” said Mara Schwartz, who is a nurse, diabetes educator, and pump user.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

CMS issued a Press Release this afternoon after this morning’s posting of QSO-22-15-NH & NLTC & LSC : “The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is taking steps to continue to protect nursing home residents’ health and safety by announcing guidance that restores certain minimum standards for compliance with CMS requirements.

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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. OIG anticipates publishing the first ICPGs to address Medicare Advantage and nursing facilities in 2024. [3]

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CHQ Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2021

A recent CHG Healthcare survey of more than 1,200 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and registered nurses found that 80% of providers were experiencing burnout in their careers before the COVID-19 pandemic — and 64% of those experiencing burnout said the pandemic made it worse.

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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. The national scope of practice reform would require states to allow non-physician providers (e.g.,

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Home Health Care

MAY 30, 2022

As part of their work, OIG investigators examined medical records for a random sample of 770 Medicare patients discharged from acute care hospitals during October 2018 – a period of relative normalcy long before the COVID-19 crisis.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

As I explained in an earlier post , just as it was legal for the medical director of a Texas nursing home to prescribe hydroxychloroquine, in this case, ivermectin has already been approved by the FDA. When can families require that doctors provide care they do not believe is medically necessary?

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

While Healthcare IT News readers have had a lot to focus on this year with cybersecurity imperatives and AI innovations, they also were very interested in new product launches, new regulator approvals, acquisitions and selloffs – including one of the most significant health IT M&A deals yet.

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Lexis Nexis

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

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. Another very common use of our data is to leverage our vast consumer data warehouse and linking capabilities to help ensure disparate patient records are linked appropriately.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The agency released its interim emergency regulation on Thursday morning. Ensuring patient safety and protection from COVID-19 has been the focus of our efforts in combating the pandemic and the constantly evolving challenges we’re seeing,” CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said in a statement. 5 of this year.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 22, 2022

In February 2022, President Biden announced a comprehensive set of reforms to improve the safety and quality of nursing home care, hold nursing homes accountable for the care they provide, and make the quality of care and facility ownership more transparent so that potential residents and their loved ones can make informed care choices. [1]

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Patient Safety Movement

AUGUST 29, 2023

Letter from CEO The last two months have seen some profound presentations, publications, and recommendations to improve patient safety in the US and globally. We have had a Summit meeting in Newport Beach with so many passionate world-renowned speakers on patient safety.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Biden-Harris Administration Issues Emergency Regulation Requiring COVID-19 Vaccination for Health Care Workers. National requirement protects patients at nearly 76,000 providers and covers more than 17 million health care workers. Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

The Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) pairs registered nurses with low-income first-time mothers during pregnancy and continues with regular home visits until the child’s second birthday. State Medicaid authorities can use the Healthy Steps Return on Investment tools to examine the program’s impact on the state budget and outcomes.

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Bill Of Health

JANUARY 30, 2023

highlight the ongoing challenge of appropriately balancing accessibility of care with patient safety. While increased accessibility of mental health care services through telehealth is a valuable goal, if our aim is the well-being of patients, safety must be paramount. About Cerebral Inc.

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Patient Safety Movement

JANUARY 31, 2024

“Make your commitment to ZERO… starting with culture of safety from your executive governing board down to the lowest paid employees.” In medicine, thousands of patients sustain preventable harm, and yet we do not know the actual number, as very little is reported.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It’s something on which we’ve focused efforts in terms of our commitment to quality, our commitment to patient outcomes and our commitment to patient safety, and that’s where we put ourselves in the space. We’re a subset of a subset of a subset within the nursing space. I moved to D.C.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

There are 2 facilities hyperlinks which send you to the same page (CMS provider types) and 1 nursing home hyperlink. There is no question that staff, across any health care setting, who remain unvaccinated pose both direct and indirect threats to patient safety and population health.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The capturing of every reportable item used in surgery is vital from a patient safety and business perspective. The FDA UDI regulations require all healthcare supply chain stakeholders to digitally track medical devices and implants throughout their lifecycle. Item missing from the system.

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KHN

MARCH 3, 2023

Unlike ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals, where a patient might stay overnight for observation after treatment, office-based surgery centers offer procedures that don’t typically require an inpatient stay and are regulated as an extension of a doctor’s private practice.

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KHN

MARCH 3, 2023

Unlike ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals, where a patient might stay overnight for observation after treatment, office-based surgery centers offer procedures that don’t typically require an inpatient stay and are regulated as an extension of a doctor’s private practice.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

” Joe Kiani, Founder Patient Safety Movement Foundation Letter from CEO In many parts of the world, February is the month for celebrating love. The Patient Safety Leadership Association is expected to play a key role in furthering the action plan set forth at the Mid-Year Event. “I believe in persistence.

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KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Federal regulators, meanwhile, are almost blind to the incursion, since private equity typically acquires practices and hospitals below the regulatory radar. ” The covid-19 pandemic had highlighted the “tragic impact” of staffing cuts and other moneysaving tactics in nursing homes, the statement said.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

There is no question that staff, across any health care setting, who remain unvaccinated pose both direct and indirect threats to patient safety and population health. Ensuring safety and access to all patients, regardless of their entry point into the health care system, is essential.”.

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KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Federal regulators, meanwhile, are almost blind to the incursion, since private equity typically acquires practices and hospitals below the regulatory radar. ” The covid-19 pandemic had highlighted the “tragic impact” of staffing cuts and other moneysaving tactics in nursing homes, the statement said.

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