Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Early warning scores are another example, which are used in hospitals to predict clinical deterioration based on a patient’s vital signs [2]. Clinician preferences for clinical prediction model design in acute care settings: A case study of early warning score implementation. Journal of Investigative Medicine.

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Arkenea

JUNE 27, 2024

Large and mid-sized hospitals may easily burden the expenses, but what about the small practices? Based on Design Settings Types of EMRs based on design settings are of two distinct types – ambulatory and acute care EMRs. Acute Care Acute care EMR software is largely used in hospitals and other inpatient care facilities.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Hence, the SWAT RN is a nursing role that is instrumental in the promotion of the nursing process and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s 2019 Clinical Judgment Measurement Model within the acute care setting, as they work collaboratively with bedside nurse leaders to facilitate positive patient outcomes.

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Mildred Elley

AUGUST 8, 2022

In hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, and other healthcare settings, Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) offer basic care and assistance to patients. They are responsible for providing basic bedside care, such as aiding patients with meals, medication administration, wound care, and minor medical requirements, as well as personal hygiene.

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Mildred Elley

AUGUST 8, 2022

In hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, and other healthcare settings, Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN’s) offer basic care and assistance to patients. LPNs are a vital part of the healthcare team, and many individuals also choose to continue their education to become Registered Nurses and/or advanced care providers.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Emergency care Coordination of emergency care helps ensure that patients who come to the emergency department receive timely, appropriate, and high-quality care and are safely and effectively transitioned to the next level of needed care, whether it is inpatient, outpatient, or home-based.

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Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. Coders are having difficulty coding all of the aspects of the admission that they really should,” said Bowman.

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Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. Coders are having difficulty coding all of the aspects of the admission that they really should,” said Bowman.

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Relias

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Pay attention to your record on patients having urgent, unplanned emergency room visits or hospital readmissions within the first 60 days of care by your agency. Your reporting should show that your patients remain alive with no unplanned hospitalizations in the 31 days following discharge from home health services.

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Relias

JANUARY 8, 2024

The relationship between patient satisfaction scores, reimbursement, and health outcomes The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scoring helps hospitals and governing bodies evaluate patient satisfaction through quantitative measurements.

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Relias

JUNE 1, 2023

However, large technology investments aren’t always realistic in the near term when hospitals and health systems are struggling financially. 7 – Streamline payer notifications of admission Banner Health’s revenue cycle staff sent faxes 20 to 100 times a day to notify health plans about a patient’s admission.

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Relias

JUNE 1, 2023

However, large technology investments aren’t always realistic in the near term when hospitals and health systems are struggling financially. 7 – Streamline payer notifications of admission Banner Health’s revenue cycle staff sent faxes 20 to 100 times a day to notify health plans about a patient’s admission.

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Relias

APRIL 18, 2022

Reducing the number of hospital- or facility-acquired pressure injuries, which are nonreimbursable. Reducing hospital readmission rates by consistently attending to risk factors. Knowing how to correctly document wound care assessments and actions taken will protect the clinician and the organization. Improve Employee Retention.

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Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

As they consider new ideas to raise patient satisfaction, healthcare leaders must have an understanding of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scoring system that evaluates these efforts. While this behavior may boost satisfaction ratings, it can also jeopardize quality of care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Keep in mind that as our homes evolve into a major place for us to make health, this is the consumer-demand side in health care. Health consumers will have an impact on the supply side of the health care system — hospitals, physicians, pharma, medical device companies, and health plans. Home as hospital.

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Relias

MARCH 13, 2023

For example, a new Hospital Price Transparency Rule came into effect in 2022. Unfortunately, many hospitals are struggling to implement the new standards promptly. Formerly, hospitals did not disclose the price of individual services to patients before they received care. Why are hospitals failing their audits?

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The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

By JEFF GOLDSMITH In late June, 2024, two economists, Zarek Brot-Goldberg and Zack Cooper, from the University of Chicago and Yale respectively, released an economic analysis arguing that hospital mergers damage local economies and result in an increase in deaths by suicide and drug overdoses in the markets where mergers occur.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

As we began to examine patients in their home, it was obvious: why do we wait for the patient with congestive heart failure to come to the hospital? If wed been able to pick this up a week earlier, we could have prevented the acute admission to the hospital.

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) also published an interoperability rule in March 2020 that applies to Medicare- and Medicaid-participating short-term acute care hospitals, long-term care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, children’s hospitals, cancer hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs).

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