EvidenceCare

JUNE 11, 2024

In our efforts to empower hospital clinicians to provide better care by having real-time transparency to cost and benchmark utilization data, we’ve learned that one of the core code systems that defines modern hospital resource management – Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) – is misunderstood or even unknown.

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Guideway Care

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Transitional care management (TCM) plays a critical role in reducing hospital readmissions by ensuring patients receive proper care and support as they transition from the hospital to home. reduction in chances for patients who received TCM services.

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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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Mobius MD

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By predicting admissions and discharge patterns, AI helps prevent overcrowding and reduces wait times. Optimizing the Supply Chain Like patient flow management, hospitals and clinics rely on a steady flow of medical supplies and medications to provide effective care. Yet supply chain disruptions remain a common challenge.

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Relias

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For many hospitals, achieving better outcomes begins with the implementation of improved patient safety protocols. Nurses are a crucial part of a hospital’s efforts to improve patient safety, as they have more direct interaction with patients of any healthcare professional. For example, the study found that 59.2%

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Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Hospices should also be concerned about care coordination. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is ramping up survey scrutiny for hospice this year, training surveyors to focus on interdisciplinary group care planning and coordination of care as part of an emphasis on meeting four core Conditions of Participation.

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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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