HIT Consultant

APRIL 8, 2024

What You Should Know: – Press Ganey , a provider of healthcare experience measurement and data analysis, announced a collaboration with Epic to integrate nurse-sensitive indicators (NSIs) and outcomes directly into Press Ganey’s National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators ( NDNQI ). What is the NDNQI?

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p3care

MAY 2, 2022

There are four categories in this category of QPP reporting , which are: Quality. Improvements Activities. So today, we will be discussing the MIPS Quality Measures linked to Certified Nurse Midwife. MIPS Reporting Measures for Certified Nurse Midwife Specialty. Categories. Promoting Interoperability. Conclusion

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 10, 2022

Infection Control Assessment and Response (ICAR) tools are used to systematically assess a healthcare facility’s infection prevention and control (IPC) practices and guide quality improvement activities (e.g., This tool will be updated as nursing home guidance is updated. by addressing identified gaps).

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

Nursing homes play a unique dual role in the long-term care continuum, serving as a place where people receive needed health care and a place they call home. The 1986 Institute of Medicine report Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes identified a range of challenges to the quality of care in nursing homes.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 9, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS QI Voices: Improving COVID-19 Outcomes in Nursing Homes Across America is an audio series that gives you a closer look at the projects and the people who are improving health care quality and outcomes. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) experts.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 9, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Beginning Spring 2023, the Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilities (COE-NF) will provide training and resources to skilled nursing facility staff who care for residents with a variety of behavioral health conditions.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 17, 2022

Here’s a look at the Table of Contents: This document is a compilation of actions employed by organizations, including state governments, in the United States and outlying territories to assist nursing homes in meeting the needs of nursing home residents since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic recognized in early 2020.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 17, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Vaccines, Treatments and Promising Practices to Improve Resident Outcomes CMS QI Voices: Improving COVID-19 Outcomes in Nursing Homes Across America , a new audio series produced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is available for listening at [link].

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2023

Enterprise Taxonomy: Digital Health Population and Public Health Quality Care Technology Care " Following the initial trial, Personify Care's digital patient pathways have been deployed for various use cases across the network.

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Briggs Healthcare

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Recommendations to Enhance Telemedicine in Nursing Homes in the Age of COVID-19 is set to appear in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association [1]. Nursing homes (NHs) have been at the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. to Enhance Telemedicine in Nursing Homes in the Age of COVID-19, Journal of the American Medical.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 10, 2022

“Staffing in nursing homes has a substantial impact on the quality of care and outcomes residents experience. These staffing measures are also used to calculate each nursing home’s star rating for the staffing rating domain as part of the Nursing Home Five Star Quality Rating System.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 16, 2023

Presently, any MDS records accepted into the Internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES) on or after the MDS migration on April 17, 2023 are not being considered in these two reports. Nursing Home (NH) Final Validation Reports that are available in iQIES to confirm that MDS records submitted to iQIES have been accepted.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But they're also gaining big benefits in quality improvement, cost efficiency, and more. By Andrea Fox | July 13, 2023 News The new nursing challenge: Adapting to AI-enabled workflows for quality improvement Jung In Park, a professor at the University of California Irvine’s School of Nursing and a.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 18, 2023

iQIES Service Center If you have questions or require assistance, please contact the QIES/iQIES Service Center by phone at (800) 339-9313 or by email at iqies@cms.hhs.gov.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

SSM Health Acquires Visiting Nurse Association of Greater St. Louis SSM Health, a Missouri-based health system, has acquired the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater St. The Visiting Nurse Association of Greater St. IntellaTriage provides nurse triage shortages throughout the day and night.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The Concierge offering was recently adopted by Gold Coast Health in Queensland, Australia to minimise nursing contacts at its COVID-19 wards, as well as to enable remote consultations. Enterprise Taxonomy: Quality Improvement Value-based care Quality Care. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Minneapolis-based Allina Health, working with Flare Capital Partners, has launched a new company, Inbound Health, designed to help health systems and payers design and build hospital-at-home and home-based skilled nursing programs. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 19, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Coalition is excited to share nine Action Plans for nursing home quality improvement ! Each is an opportunity to improve the quality of life and work of nursing home residents and staff.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Meanwhile, a nationwide shortage of nurses and physicians has also held back investments in glycemic event tracking metrics and stalled the transformation of hospital processes. Glycemic management committees should follow a quality improvement framework that includes: Assessing the current state of care and the current data available.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 12, 2023

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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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 8, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) is migrating MDS submissions and reporting to a new system, the internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES) beginning April 17, 2023.

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Briggs Healthcare

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

CMS instructed State surveyors to use this data to investigate specific instances of noncompliance with hourly staffing standards (for example, the requirement to have a registered nurse on duty for a minimum of 8 hours per day).

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Well-integrated data benefits the entire care journey, from care access and delivery to coding, billing and payment to ongoing quality improvement. Healthcare leaders should collaborate closely with front-line physicians, nurses and other clinicians as well as IT staff to determine the best solutions.

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Briggs Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2022

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).

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CHQ Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Applying some of these basic quality improvement strategies from the Lean methodology can help you identify and eliminate waste and standardize your processes to increase efficiency, lower costs, and improve employee job satisfaction. And if they are, how are they going about it?” asks Rhodes-Horsley.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

California does cover skilled nursing facility care in its MLTSS program, but most personal care services (in-home supportive services) are provided under FFS. Encouraging the provision of HCBS should lead to more people receiving the services and support they need at home rather than in more costly nursing facilities.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 3, 2022

CMS has posted the updated 5-page Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Quick Reference Guide – v2.0 via the Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (QIES) Assessment Submission and Processing (ASAP) system to collect patient assessment data. with the date of January 28, 2022. (I

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 9, 2023

This (14-page) user guide accompanies the Performance Score Report (PSR) for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program year. Contacts and Additional Resources The PSR is available to download in Microsoft Excel format from the Internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES).

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Nursing homes, in particular, should review and reinforce their infection control protocols as we move into fall and winter, when respiratory infections are more commonly transmitted. However, CMS is concerned that recent data shows that only about 44% of nursing home residents are up-to-date on their current recommended vaccines.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Identify your VBP fixes With the new Interim Performance Reports (IPR) out as of the last week of July, providers have a much better look into where exactly they need to make improvements to shore up performance under VBP. They have the most direct contact with patients and can provide valuable insights into how to improve care.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

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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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 27, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare (Telligen’s) goal is to provide the same opportunity to improve the high-risk medication management system with the two different provider groups (nursing homes & prescriber/pharmacists) with each their own ECHO series.

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NCQA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The GUIDE model is the first of its kind to address health care costs and target reductions in federal spending on long-term nursing home placement. And then we’re also developing an approach for certification based on quality improvement and patient experience.”

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Home Health Care

MAY 19, 2022

Not only are operators confident, but some are even excited about what HHVBP might translate to in terms of improved managed care relationships and further diversion away from skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). “If If we do well under HHVBP, that should help prove the value of home health care,” one executive recently told me.

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GoMoHealth

OCTOBER 20, 2022

By Nakecia Taffa, Quality Improvement and Health Equity Director for GoMo Health. As the Quality Improvement and Health Equity Director for GoMo Health, I’ve been able to leverage my knowledge and experience to create visual frameworks and strategic workflows to educate, activate and scale the ability to close gaps in care.

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Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2021, COVID-19 immunization rates among nursing home staff quickly rose due to federal vaccine mandates for healthcare workers and long-term care facilities participating in the Federal Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program. viii] Who We Help – Nursing Homes | qioprogram.org. Available Resources for Facilities.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Notably, gaps in care are especially prevalent when patients are being discharged from a skilled nursing facility (SNF) and going back into the home, a new report from the United Hospital Fund (UHF) found. And there has been some improvement.”. They also exist in areas where home-based care providers specifically can help.

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