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Preparing for CERT Audits and Practicing Compliant Documentation

EvidenceCare

A compliance measure calculates the percentage of patients discharged in the appropriate inpatient or observation bed status—a determinant that can result in major financial repercussions if misclassified. The goal for the compliance measure is to have over 95% of discharges compliant.

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Vanderbilt Nursing Professor Receives $3.6M to Study Telemedicine and Post-intensive Care Syndrome Recovery

Minority Nurse

million over five years to examine, with her collaborators, the efficacy of telemedicine services among people recovering from post-intensive care syndrome. Following ICU discharge, patients have problems lasting months to years that often go unaddressed,” Boehm says.

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SDOH Data: Use Cases, Maintaining Privacy, and Health Data Ecosystems

Ciox

Example: SOURCE Collaborative explores non-healthcare factors that may impact blindness from diabetes By using SDOH to enrich clinical research , SOURCE found that lower levels of affluence in a patient’s residential community was associated with progression to blindness.

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Why Financial Incentives Oppose Quality Improvement Projects in Healthcare

The Healthcare Blog

Notably, some of the providers involved in the collaborative have said that their hospitals don’t like that they’ve been decreasing emergency department visits and hospitalizations because it hurts the hospital’s finances. Clearly, from a hospital standpoint, this is in Category 3 (opposed by financial incentives).

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Reducing Maternal Mortality: Will the ‘Birthing-Friendly’ Hospital Designation Help?

Relias

We must improve care in this area of maternal health by strengthening screening, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and ongoing care using recommended screening tools and evidence-based best practices, as well as developing innovative culturally appropriate community-based programs. Collaborative care models can save lives.

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Guide to the Types of Oncology Nurses

Guideway Care

It involves collaboration across diverse healthcare disciplines so as to orchestrate comprehensive management plans focused on all aspects pertinent to juvenile health outcomes. Hospitals and Cancer Centers In hospitals and cancer centers, oncology nurses work collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams to deliver comprehensive patient care.