HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Kim Howard, Chief Client Officer, Nomad Health When it comes to the Great Resignation, forget office workers – the real wave of resignation is coming from nurses. What was underreported then – and continues to be – is that the Great Resignation came in full force for nurses.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 11, 2024

"We're going to be highlighting a lot of different ways in which this combination of technology, data and making sure that all of the different players in the ecosystem can connect and talk to one another is going to make life simpler for the practices and the clinicians that we serve." " Dr.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 12, 2024

Documentation not meeting medical necessity is another top claims error that providers make. Source: WellSky One of the denial reasons that overlapped across multiple Medicare administrative contractors was the medical necessity for skilled nursing services not being supported by documentation. “I’ve

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Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 10, 2023

She also explains how leveraging greatness in people, service and growth creates a magnet for talent, and why hospitals can never declare victory in greatness. If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting and it is not going to be good. And we have to figure it out.

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Medical GPS

JULY 27, 2022

Being a nurse is hard. After all, there are thousands of other nurses that do the same jobs as you, but some nurses are just better than others. After all, there are thousands of other nurses that do the same jobs as you, but some nurses are just better than others. Why is that? Why is that? Organization.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

We spoke recently with Mishuris to get an in-depth look at how MGB is making use of AI – but also to discuss two top areas of concern for her: responsible use of AI and employing AI to support care teams to deal with staffing shortages and defeat clinician burnout. What are we seeing other organizations doing in this space?

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

What was the main message you heard at the conference? What were the overarching themes? The lack of tenured nurses creates a risk to quality outcomes. The lack of tenured nurses creates a risk to quality outcomes. What did you learn about expanding access with behavioral health telemedicine?

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

That's what we have to take to zero." " To explain what he meant by "noise," he gave a nod to Cerner's late founder and his late wife. "Data to do more great things even faster, that's the brass ring," said Feinberg. " But still, said Feinberg, "the noise remains.

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Pro CRNA

AUGUST 28, 2022

Rising stars in the workplace and in the profession…we all know who they are and the contributions that they make to group. To ensure that nurse anesthesiologists continue to be valued members of the healthcare community, a combination of solid workers and rising stars are essential. What is a rising star and what do they look like?

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I’m sure Medicare Advantage is full of great people,” Healing Hands Healthcare CEO Summer Napier said during a Home Health Care News webinar last week. Health care is full of great people, but from a provider standpoint, Medicare Advantage is really hard to deal with. Our education team did a great job of rolling it out,” Napier said.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In recent years, home-based care providers have seen the value in being more hands on when it comes to building home health nursing pipelines. The CenterWell Home Health Home Lab at ENLC was set up to resemble an apartment and, as part of the instruction, nursing students will simulate home-based care in the space. “To

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We had a relationship with Sollis Health, and what they’re doing is really incredible, in terms of the members-only model and the model for their emergency room-level services. The company offers personal care and in-home nursing services, as well as concierge services. The collaboration builds on that. “We

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

From the distant past of the 1990s up to just a few years ago, many healthcare technologists have predicted that telemedicine would make it into the mainstream of healthcare delivery. And now that it is being so robustly used across the country, the big question is: What's next? It's a trend we've already started to see.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2024

Investments made at Amedisys Amedisys had one of its strongest years in 2023, when it comes to organic growth within its nurse hiring program. At the same time, it has struggled to hold onto its nurses. Estimates vary, but the general consensus for how many home health nurses the industry is short ranges from 200,000 to 400,000.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It’s no secret that the nursing crisis continues to become more dire, impacting health care as a whole – including home health care. But honing in on nurses, and former nurses, when addressing the many challenges the industry is facing may be a way forward. We have to get more people into health care, more nurses.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Zsolt Kulcsar, medical director at Lee Health based in Fort Myers, Florida, says what he has learned in recent years is that telemedicine is great, but it also is a little limiting. "What we learned is that we needed data," he continued. There is only so much one can solve via a video interaction. THE PROBLEM.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 6, 2024

The good news is that AI tools are ready to make significant improvements to the patient experience, especially when it comes to giving patients and clinicians their time back. According to the American Nurses Association , nurses are retiring faster than new nurses can be trained.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Can you imagine a world in which technology enables physicians and nurses to spend less time in front of a computer and more time with patients? “It sounds great, doesn’t it? “We need to make it a priority in healthcare for people to get access to the care they need,” he concludes.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Among all industries in the world, healthcare is the one that's all about people – people such as doctors and nurses who are helping other people, patients, get better. Which vendors have the vision and the capabilities to deliver innovative solutions and make a significant market impact? ai, Kore, Onereach and Avaamo.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 6, 2024

Trent Smith is someone, regionally, that I believe is on the cusp of really changing how our nurses engage in documentation. Trent is attacking the core issue holding our industry back from having the “best” nursing job. Last month, HHCN talked to five leaders in the home care space. It’s going to completely change the game.

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Vie Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2024

And you have to make very quickly, fairly educated decisions based on standard operating procedures. So, thinking before you speak for me means instead of just saying what I need to say in the moment, I think about what I say, how it will impact the person hearing it, how it’ll impact my image.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 5, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare May is always a great month, especially after a long winter. Today, I write in honor of nurses everywhere. As is my annual tradition, I’m a bit nostalgic in remembering why we have a day, a week and a month to honor nurses. May is National Nurses Month.

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CHQ Healthcare

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

More than 40 years later, CHG has become one of the leading healthcare staffing companies in the nation, providing temporary and permanent placement of physicians, allied health professionals, and nurses to healthcare facilities around the world. What works for one person may not work as well for another. million patients.

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Healthcare Success

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Healthcare providers, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals, encounter different scenarios daily. Stop what you’re doing and…. Stop what you’re doing, make eye contact, repeat their problems or concerns, and ask clarifying questions if needed. But avoidance makes matters worse. Actively listen.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 13, 2022

We interviewed Kreofsky to get an idea of the pros and cons of retail's entry into healthcare, the revolution's impact on hospitals and health systems, her belief that provider organizations must execute on digital strategy to compete, and what healthcare CIOs should be doing today. Now the threat is even greater. First, access.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 24, 2024

What life and career experiences do you most draw from, in your role today? I learned so much in that role and developed a tremendous amount of empathy for nurses and clinicians who have to navigate clunky software while caring for patients simultaneously. What does a true partnership between a software vendor and a provider look like?

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Home Health Care

JULY 5, 2022

We are all about providing upskilling pathways for caregivers to give them a wealth of opportunity to make a difference in their career. In 2021, we launched the CAREer Path Initiative in partnership with Southern New Hampshire University, which is a leading credentialing body of nurses in the country.

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p3care

MARCH 23, 2021

From patient treatments to data transmission in MIPS reporting to catering to everyday administrative load, technology is making rounds everywhere. Doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals do not want to indulge in manual paperwork. What is the Solution? Why Many Physicians Hesitate From the Credentialing Process?

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 15, 2022

I can do these things and not have to worry about whether it makes sense on a fee-for-service basis. Zaghi said the company found that hiring nurse practitioners who had home health experience was a key factor in making the transition a smooth one. “We I have to worry about whether it actually impacts outcomes.”.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 30, 2022

They were what every health care provider – and home-based care provider, in particular – wanted to fix in seniors. What are the biggest obstacles to health care and what are the other things other than great health care that might actually add more value to these seniors?

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Vie Healthcare

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s just like learning what AI is, what it isn’t, the types of problems it’s really great at, the types of problems you shouldn’t use it for. So helping them better predict what items they’re going to need and when. Really the most important thing is AI literacy.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2024

But there’s not a great way to measure that yet. I’m not going to pretend that I know what the final result is. I think what we have to do is avoid the temptation to sort of fall back on more is better, right? We’ve got to come up with a payment model that makes that sustainable. We don’t.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

We enroll patients — in the PACE world, we call them participants — who are living in the community prior to enrollment, but who would qualify for nursing home placement based upon their level of impairment and their care needs. That’s PACE, and that’s what we do. Extending from that, we deliver in-home services and in-home care.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

What career experiences will you most draw from, as you realize your vision in this new role? Wes Little: I have had the great opportunity to have worked on the provider side and the technology side of home-based care. We have predictive analytics solutions that serve home health, hospice and personal care providers.

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Vie Healthcare

AUGUST 23, 2023

To answer that, echocardiography and its related technology because as we know, it relies a great deal on technology. And that of course makes techs’ lives much easier and more ergonomically friendly. I’m sure you know from a nurse’s standpoint, how important that is. So echo is no different. Very risky.

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Vie Healthcare

APRIL 10, 2024

And then when you get confirmations back, usually people are using some form of EDI, which makes it relatively easy, and you can track that. When you start looking at how things are being invoiced because there’s no PO line, it gets very challenging to try to figure out, “Okay, what’s actually happening with this spend?”

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For example, when I was in middle school, my great grandmother moved in to live with us because she could no longer manage on her own. Ultimately, the demands of my great grandmother, as her illnesses progressed, became so much that we couldn’t keep her at home. It was an obvious place to make a difference.

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