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Enhancing Physical Therapy With Artificial Intelligence

HIT Consultant

In a profession like physical therapy, which at its core is grounded in empathy and patient rapport, the impact of such a future becomes amplified. And its current advancements simply cannot be ignored, even in physical therapy. Can AI actually benefit physical therapy and its clinicians?

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Study: In-Home Outpatient PT Reduces Costs By 52% Compared To Traditional Home Health Services

Home Health Care

A new study from the on-demand physical therapy company Luna found that in-home outpatient PT models can reduce costs by 52% compared to traditional home health services for total knee and hip replacements. Home health has a very important value,” Palak Shah, Luna’s co-founder and head of clinical services, told Home Health Care News.

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CMS Revises Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 State Performance Standards System (SPSS) Guidance

Briggs Healthcare

Resources to Improve Quality of Care: Check out CMS’s new Quality in Focus interactive video series. Reducing these common deficiencies increases the quality of care for people with Medicare and Medicaid.

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Care coordination: What's needed to succeed with accountable care and home health?

Healthcare It News

Care coordination is becoming increasingly important in U.S. healthcare for a variety of reasons, including the increased use of value-based care models, the behavioral care shortage and a boom in home healthcare. In the home, all those different services need to be coordinated a la carte. This is hard to do.

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14 Ways to Reduce Long Patient Wait Times

Healthcare Success

It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care. urgent care centers and Telehealth), are giving healthcare consumers what they want—often before they even know they want it. .

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5G’s Role in Improving Quality and Reach of Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Interruptions in a procedure can cause complications for the patient, reduce the quality of care, and in the worst-case scenario, put lives at risk. Wearable sensors that track movement and pain during telehealth physical therapy will also play an increasing role as the IoT healthcare market expands.

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Managed Care Contracts Fueling Growth For Continuous Home Care

Home Health Care

Continuous provides a long list of home health services including skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy and other assistance supporting activities of daily living. When Putman started, the revenue breakdown was about 60% Medicare and 40% managed care.