Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 7, 2025

On this occa sion, all Connect Care production systems are affected, including Hyperdrive, Transfusion (WellSky), Content (Quanum), Dictation (Dragon Medical One), MUSE and ECG Web, MyAHS Connect, and the Link Provider Portal. Use paper documents provided in clinics and inpatient units, with forms appropriate for orders and/or charting.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 23, 2025

No matter how many job boards allow you to create a personal profile with your career details, having your own consistently updated document accurately representing your expertise could not be a smarter way to always be ready for the next opportunity. Instead, you can keep a separate document on hand listing your most important references.

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Health Prime

AUGUST 15, 2024

These 2025 ICD-10-CM updates are to be used for discharges and patient encounters from October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025. These changes will impact medical billing, coding practices, and healthcare administration. Our team of experts is dedicated to ensuring that your practice stays ahead of the curve.

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EvidenceCare

MARCH 11, 2024

GMLOS is calculated by taking the nth root of the product of the length of stay for a series of discharges, where ‘n’ represents the number of discharges. Unlike GMLOS, ALOS is calculated by adding the total number of stay days for a group of patients and dividing by the number of discharges or admissions.

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EvidenceCare

MAY 29, 2024

Their clinics were short on Medical Assistants, and they didn’t have super users in the clinic. This was achieved through a partnership with DrFirst , which improved medication history search capabilities and automated the completion of prescription fields.

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Prism Career Institute

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Those who are interested in a fulfilling career are sure to consider looking into the medical field. A career as a medical assistant shouldn’t be overlooked. At Prism Career Institute, we help prepare you for the workforce by providing challenging programs , like our medical assistant program , giving you the tools you need.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

JANUARY 20, 2025

Once perceived as a healthcare nicety compared to service satisfaction scores, patient experience (PX) management now is a must-have when it comes to maximizing healthcare performance and improving medical outcomes. 1] A good patient experience correlates to a lower medical malpractice risk. No touchpoint is too small for inclusion.

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Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Sadly, the frustrating fact is that there’s no rule governing how much time a medical school has to respond to your application. However, we’ll try to answer some of the big questions on med school applicants’ minds, including: How long does a medical school have to invite an applicant to submit a secondary application? Don’t give up!

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

PRD SRO is accessible from any computer used for documenting in Connect Care regularly. What you need to do BEFORE DOWNTIME Complete orders and documentation in the chart before downtime begins. DURING DOWNTIME Check with Unit Clerk/Charge Nurse to confirm processes for ordering, documentation, and patient movement.

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Health Prime

JULY 6, 2023

Workflow automation in healthcare creates an opportunity for medical practices to improve care delivery. According to the 2021 Internet of Healthcare Report , 90% of healthcare executives said their organization relies on multiple systems for at least one process, including claims processing and clinical documentation.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

On this occasion, all Connect Care production systems are affected, including Hyperdrive, Transfusion (WellSky), Content (Quanum), Dictation (Dragon Medical One), OBIX, MUSE and ECG Web, MyAHS Connect, and the Link Provider Portal. Use paper documents provided in clinics and inpatient units, with forms appropriate for orders and/or charting.

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DrChrono

JANUARY 3, 2023

Medical records are an integral component of the clinical process. From admission to discharge and beyond, secure, reliable, and accurate record-keeping is paramount to exceptional continuity of care.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

AUGUST 30, 2024

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

In most cases, this data belongs to different medical institutions that process and store it in isolated pools that are poorly structured. Leading medical institutions utilize various IT systems to manage and operate their diagnostic, treatment, and administrative services. The message is then transmitted to the concerned department.

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Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Documentation in the medical record. The medical record should show that the care team adequately assesses and meets patient needs, effectively communicates information about the patient, then monitors, follows up, and responds to changes. “But As part of discharge planning. Document all coordination.

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Health Prime

JULY 6, 2023

Workflow automation in healthcare creates an opportunity for medical practices to improve care delivery. According to the 2021 Internet of Healthcare Report , 90% of healthcare executives said their organization relies on multiple systems for at least one process, including claims processing and clinical documentation.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

JANUARY 26, 2024

Informed consent is a fundamentally important concept in medical law. Patients have the right to receive information and ask questions about recommended treatments so that they can make well-considered decisions about care,” according to the American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

JANUARY 26, 2024

Informed consent is a fundamentally important concept in medical law. Patients have the right to receive information and ask questions about recommended treatments so that they can make well-considered decisions about care,” according to the American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics.

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Relias

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Accurate medical coding has a big impact on revenue cycle management (RCM), but it is not the only factor affecting its success. The first set of recommended KPIs pertains to ensuring that medical coding accurately reflects patient conditions and properly documents the care they received. Code and charge accuracy.

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Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

This version of HL7 uses standardized messages such as medical orders, demographics, lab results, administrative activities, and financial details. CDA includes the following elements for all clinical documents – stewardship, persistence, potential for authentication, wholeness, context, and human readability.

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DropStat

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The importance of nurses educating patients is well known and documented in studies showing that patient education results in greater patient compliance and leads to better health outcomes. Moreover, healthcare is increasingly shifting towards patient- and consumer-centered healthcare. What is patient education?

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Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative, particularly its Advanced version (BPCI-A), serves as one prominent example among these new payment models with an emphasis on improving Medicares capacity for promoting more efficient resource usage and enhancing collaboration amongst various medical practitioners.

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CareerStep

MAY 27, 2024

Working in a hospital pharmacy may involve going on rounds with the doctor or medical students if the particular hospital does rounds, according to Jesie Davenport , CPhT, pharm tech academic lead, and instructor. You’re also filling medications for different timeframes when working in institutional pharmacy vs community pharmacy.

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Relias

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Bear in mind that your rating depends on accurate documentation of your initial assessment of the patient and in your Medicare claims for the care provided. You want to be sure your team helps patients get better at elements such as mobility and taking medications correctly.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

Today, she is an assistant professor at UMass Chan Medical School and its Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing in Worcester, Massachusetts , and a senior telehealth consultant with Blue Cirrus Consulting, Greenville, South Carolina. Teresa Rincon, PhD, RN, FCCM, is a pioneer in virtual nursing.

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Use medicines safely The Joint Commission’s third goal has three sub-goals involving the safe use of medications: Label un-labeled medicines where medicines and supplies are kept. In another study from UC Davis Health, the authors examined risk factors for medication errors. Take extra care with blood thinners.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

ChatGPT, a generative AI, can access terabytes of data in less than seconds to predict medical conditions. Thus, making it quicker and easier for healthcare providers to predict medical conditions. Physicians can streamline documentation procedures, and generate medical charts, and discharge instructions.

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Arkenea

JUNE 27, 2024

EMRs (Electronic Medical Records) are the cornerstone of modern healthcare. Their introduction to the healthcare industry has converted paper-based medical records to electronic ones. Reports say that medical errors are one of the leading causes of death, and electronic medical records leave little to no room for documentation errors.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

AUGUST 28, 2024

President Joe Biden’s plans for student debt forgiveness may provide some relief for medical school graduates, as long as those plans survive legal challenges. 18 In order to discharge federal student loans, a person must be totally and permanently disabled. On July 18, the Biden administration approved the cancellation of roughly $1.2

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Health Prime

JANUARY 10, 2024

The American Medical Association (AMA) released the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set for 2024. According to the AMA, the CPT coding system offers doctors nationwide a uniform process for coding medical services. This code set is regularly updated to reflect advancements in medical technology, procedures, and practices.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

Building a Better Health Record (BBHR) As part of our documentation quality improvement initiative , we promote practical ways for clinicians to provide clear and actionable communication at transitions of care. It also provides a space where teams can record discharge planning notes, which can be iteratively updated in a wiki-like fashion.

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We Care Online

JANUARY 15, 2025

It needs mix of organizational skills, medical visions and ability to work effectively in fast-paced healthcare facilities. Health Unit Coordinators perform crucial administrative functions in hospitals, clinics, and healthcare facilities, freeing up medical staff to spend more time with patients. Healthcare documentation.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

JANUARY 24, 2025

This stage will improve the electronic delivery of some results and clinical documents to healthcare providers by making "eDelivery" (i.e., consult letter) Shared summative documents/notes (e.g., discharge summary) Excluded clinical information : Lab and ECG result delivery are expected to be added to this optimization later in 2025.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

APRIL 7, 2025

PRD SRO is accessible from any computer regularly used for documenting in Connect Care. What you need to do BEFORE DOWNTIME Complete orders and documentation in the chart before downtime begins. DURING DOWNTIME Check with Unit Clerk/Charge Nurse to confirm processes for ordering, documentation, and patient movement.

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Relias

JULY 20, 2023

Maternal mortality is closely linked to social and behavioral factors As documented extensively, higher U.S. Managing gaps in mental health services by expanding the scope of services offered, increasing training on mental health for all staff, and reviewing documentation practices can also help.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 15, 2025

As an editor, I had a conversation with her and reviewed basic documents to confirm the factual content. By the time I was discharged, I had lost about 15 lbs of muscle. We publish this well-written account of a vaccine injury from a regular Sensible Medicine reader. I will limit comments to paid subscribers.

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