Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The solution built a QR code embedded with the patient’s full data (clinical, social determinants, and other relevant bits of information to complete the patient’s profile) with a designated caregiver at both ends of the transfer — from the originating site to the admission site.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 7, 2023

The Supreme Court issued a number of headline-grabbing decisions this term on topics like religious accommodation , LGBTQ protections , and consideration of race in college admissions. First, the court agreed that “remuneration” under the AKS covers just payment and other transfers of value, not any act that may be valuable to another.

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Transfers Hospital Documentation Communication 52

Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

  I usually see people who die alone in the hospital. There have been previous admissions after which the patient did not make it to follow-up appointments. Some of these patients die alone in the hospital, with nobody at their bedside. Others are transferred to inpatient hospice centers.

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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. Being an LPN includes transferring patients and providing direct care which can be physically demanding. These shifts can vary between 4-12 hours depending on the employment.

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Vital Signs Medical Terminology Admissions Follow-Up 52

Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want to know how much of BU medical school’s recent $100 million gift it intends to use for scholarships, or what happens to applications to ensure a genuinely holistic process, or what its associate dean of admissions wants to see in students read on! Welcome to the 541st episode of Admissions Straight Talk.

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Admissions Medication Follow-Up Hospital 52

Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

One of the uses of FHIR: In 2021, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center inducted FHIR to increase interoperability across the organization, with an aim to connect hospital-based EHR with ambulatory EHR systems. HL7 vs. FHIR 1. Tackling Security Concerns Hackers can exploit the MLLP (Minimum Lower Layer Protocol).

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Documentation Follow-Up Discharges Clinical Operations 52

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The nurse in the Medical-Surgical Unit suspects worsening respiratory distress, noticing that Mr. Salzo has become increasingly anxious and is moving about restlessly in bed during the admission assessment. Conclusion Mr. Salzo, transferred to an oncology unit, begins cancer treatment.

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Triage Diagnostics Collaboration Vital Signs 105

Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

Yet, even when I was a medical student, working busy days on the wards and in clinics, with even the petty things still lingering from my past, the PTSD from my own hospital experiences, I thought it was all okay, because I spoke about it, and wrote about it openly, on different platforms. Now I realise that wasn’t, and isn’t , enough.

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Admissions Huddles/Rounds Follow-Up Hospital 52

Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

I had collapsed into a heap on the cold, hospital floor, falling unconscious and suffering a seizure. I tried to make out the quivering outline of another hospital bed opposite me. Age 23, I went through another long eight weeks of my life confined to a hospital bed, all hope at loose end. For God’s sake , get UP !”

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Admissions Follow-Up Hospital Huddles/Rounds 52

Setting Sights

MAY 2, 2022

Hospital staff dressed head to toe in hazard suits, masks and gloves, hovered outside the Emergency Department, where lines of fluorescent ‘Do Not Enter’ tape fluttered in the icy wind outside the door. That was the last time I saw the hospital, where I lived and learnt as a medical student, for a very long time.

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Medication Follow-Up Hospital Huddles/Rounds 52

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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