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Rehumanizing the Patient Experience

Minority Nurse

We wait to be discharged. ” If you’re waiting to be discharged from the hospital, what time you’ll be able to leave is anyone’s guess since one hand often doesn’t know what the other hand is doing. We wait to see the provider. We’re stalled in the emergency room waiting area.

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The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips

Health Populi

George tells us about being discharged home after dealing with heart failure in the hospital. He is wearing his BioIntelliSense “BioSticker” which communicates vital sign metrics, used along with Philips remote patient monitoring program. Take George and Audrey.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S. Parks Associates’ research identified other categories of consumer electronics growth in the 2020 year of the coronavirus, including: Smart home devices, growing to 30% of U.S. broadband households in 2020 from 17% in 2015. Financial literacy, especially key to U.S.

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Post-Acute Care Training Promotes Employees as an Asset

Relias

Improve communication. PAC training directly impacts the lives of the patient PAC services provide an extra level of assistance for people discharged from acute hospitals. Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in March 2020 and has been updated with new content. Boost efficiency. Create problem-solvers.

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Behind the Screen But Not Behind the Scenes: Virtual Nurses Provide Clinical Support, Additional Expertise

Minority Nurse

million from March 2020 to February 2021. Immediate Access to Clinical Support Virtual nurses regularly assist with tasks that do not require physical proximity to the patient, such as patient-family education, completing admission and discharge tasks, and participating in two-person verification processes. Numbers skyrocketed from 2.1

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Home Health Agencies Face Growing Competition as Value-Based Purchasing Expands Nationally

Relias

A recent Relias webinar on HHVBP indicated that the total Medicare spending reduction in the program’s first five years (2016-2020) resulted in a $942.2 When determining improvement scores, the baseline year will be 2019 as opposed to 2020 due to the potential effects of COVID-19 distorting the data. Discharged to community.

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Trust Is a Key Social Currency for COVID-Embattled Consumers

Health Populi

If these four experience-flows were positive, the patient would be discharged from hospital more likely to recommend the provider to friends, family, and social networks…generating trust. Thus, Press Ganey asserts, “patients’ trust in their health care is intertwined with caregivers’ trust in their organizations.”

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