The Healthcare Blog

MAY 6, 2024

The diet is associated with many complications that often lead to hospital admissions for dehydration, electrolyte disturbances, and hypoglycemia. While a keto diet may help people lose weight in the short term, studies show that weight loss is rarely sustained over the long run and may be detrimental to overhaul health.

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The Healthcare Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The components of this transformation include a much greater use of CNMs for normal pregnancies, who provide far more pre- and post-natal care, and who have demonstrable effects on early inductions of labor, c-section rates, and downstream rates of NICU admissions. This is not a picayune academic point.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

JANUARY 20, 2025

By using Success, Effort, Emotion, and Trust (SEET) as measurements for every PX processfrom appointment setting to care plans to paymentsthe healthcare community can expand its potential for providing excellent care.

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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. With the shift to value-based care and risk adjustment models, there’s a need for coding that gives a complete clinical picture of the patient. Fraudulent Coding or Overreporting. “We

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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. With the shift to value-based care and risk adjustment models, there’s a need for coding that gives a complete clinical picture of the patient. Fraudulent Coding or Overreporting. “We

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Relias

APRIL 18, 2022

By doing so, you create an environment where the team can develop care plans that improve healing rates and lower incidence rates. When even one nurse becomes a specialist in wound care , that informed clinician can spread specialized knowledge throughout the care team.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 5, 2023

Inappropriate procedures, costly admissions, and unnecessary downstream testing stemmed from incidental findings and unimportant lab abnormalities, many of which originated from a primary care office. Navigating uncertainty with an appropriately calibrated set point is the mark of a skilled primary care physician.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By incorporating care coordination practices such as risk assessment, care planning, care transitions, patient education, patient navigation, telehealth, and home visits, care coordination teams can bring in resources to help patients navigate health concerns that span physical, behavioral, and social risk factors and needs.

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Prism Career Institute

JANUARY 8, 2025

They may also provide end-of-life companionship, or defend the patients desires when questions arise regarding their care plan. This personal touch is what sets hospice care apart from other nursing settings, and what makes it most fulfilling for the individuals who choose this path.

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Guideway Care

JULY 2, 2024

Early identification allows for proactive management of their conditions, reducing hospital admissions and improving overall health outcomes. Addressing Patients With Immediate Care Needs After identifying high-risk patients, addressing those needing immediate care is essential.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The positive finding in this research is that one-third of people dealing with at least one chronic condition sought health care through virtual means, telehealth, in the pandemic.

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Scrubs

APRIL 25, 2023

A new law is set to pass in the state of Florida that will require all hospitals receiving Medicaid funding to collect information regarding their patients’ immigration status as part of the admissions process. Patients’ names also wouldn’t be disclosed to the state.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

T-minus 0: Share and Learn Launch 9 Supporters Handout Reminder for Launch 9 Supports Resources for Super Users and Area Trainers on Launch 9 Support Issues FAQ Do I use a Recommendation or Referral to send a patient to an allied health provider?

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The compliance date for the CMS rule was July 1, 2021. The final interoperability and information blocking rules do not amend HIPAA or the HITECH Act, although they are related.

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