The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

One morning, you wake up to a missed call and a voicemail from your PR leader. You follow up and learn that this wasnt just any employee. The patient safety team moves quickly to investigate, and they discover that the patient was a young woman who had given birth to her first child just two weeks ago at one of your hospitals.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

If patients are having trouble following the latest health recommendations, providers can engage with the community to better understand why these problems persist. Yet, every time they would come into the hospital, we would discharge them with the same plan. has a health literacy problem of its own.

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EvidenceCare

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In case you aren’t familiar, the Two-Midnight Rule mandates that a patient’s hospital stay must span at least two midnights to qualify for inpatient status, directly influencing reimbursement rates and compliance requirements. In the MA Final Rule, however, CMS explicitly states that the two-midnight presumption does not apply to MA plans.

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Mobius MD

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Having AI check errors gives providers peace of mind while speeding up reimbursements and minimizing costly denials. By predicting admissions and discharge patterns, AI helps prevent overcrowding and reduces wait times. Post-visit, AI can guide patients through recovery by sending reminders to take medications or schedule follow-ups.

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EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

This comprehensive guide provides hospital and revenue cycle leadership with vital insights on preparing for CERT audits and establishing processes for compliant documentation. Hospitals need to be aware of these state-specific rules as well. Think of your documentation as the ironclad defense for your hospital admissions.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We meet George and Audrey in their open kitchen-dining room space, with George finishing up a conversation with his cardiologist via a tablet. Take George and Audrey.

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Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

Advancing these efforts, the BPCI Advanced model introduces a consolidated retrospective payment system that addresses services within a 90-day period following discharge or outpatient procedures. Utilizing predictive analytics is crucial in controlling expenses while simultaneously advancing patient outcomes.

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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. By focusing on follow-up care, medication management, and patient education, TCM addresses the primary factors leading to readmissions.

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Arkenea

MARCH 9, 2025

In recent years, hospital mobile app development has emerged as a critical tool in the healthcare industry, providing patients with convenient and accessible healthcare services. In this blog, we will explore the benefits, development process, hospital mobile app technology trends, challenges, and more.

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Relias

JANUARY 23, 2023

In this study, we used the term peripartum depression to more broadly encompass depression that occurs any time during pregnancy, up to four weeks after birth, or during the first 12 months after delivery. This definition is important when you consider that peripartum depression affects up to 20% of all women.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

JANUARY 20, 2025

Improving Access and Outcomes Using Success, Effort, Emotion, and Trust Metrics A nurse enters a hospital room for a routine blood draw. Hospitals with higher patient experience scores report a 161% better net margin than competitors with low scores. [1] She greets the patient, explains why she is there, and begins the task.

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Guideway Care

APRIL 9, 2024

While the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey is a significant tool in measuring patient satisfaction, it represents a single aspect of the overall patient experience. HCAHPS The HCAHPS survey is a standardized tool for capturing patients’ perceptions of their hospital experience.

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CollaborateMD

MARCH 7, 2025

Automation tools like RPA in healthcare can handle repetitive tasks like data entry and insurance claim processing to free up valuable time and reduce administrative burden. Improved Efficiency and Accuracy The American Medical Association (AMA) estimates that up to 12% of medical claims are submitted with inaccurate codes.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Once purchased, most consumers set up devices themselves. Medical literacy, such as understanding medical instructions following up procedures, lab tests, and inpatient discharges to the home. Please follow my posts here on Health Populi all this week during the consumer electronics show (100% virtual!)

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Guideway Care

AUGUST 31, 2023

Readmission costs to Medicare is reported at $26 billion annually, with $17 billion of that amount spent on avoidable hospital intakes and readmissions after discharge, according to data from the Center for Health Information and Analysis. Multi-visit patients account for more than half of all readmissions in the United States.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2024

.” This post summarizes some key findings on the consumer demand side for staying home, empowered and enabled by various technologies that can support independent aging, living, and medical care as more acute services shift from hospital-to-home.

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Accepted Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

The rest is up to you. The drawback of this is having to pick up and move two times. Many institutions offer more preliminary internships than residency spots (cheap labor), so interns who have not been accepted to residency can work hard and hope for acceptance (or at least a good letter of recommendation) the following year.

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Relias

DECEMBER 21, 2021

That means making sure they are compliant with all required training, are up to date on evidence-based practices, and have the knowledge and skills to consistently provide high-quality care. Another goal is setting your patients up for success after home health services end. The obvious goal here is avoiding patient harm.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Physicians can streamline documentation procedures, and generate medical charts, and discharge instructions. ChatGPT has become a global phenomenon, with over 1 million sign-ups to try the chatbot post-launch. With its advanced content creation features such as essays, poetry, and fiction, this AI technology is picking up pace.

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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

While the plan of care is always the number one area for citations, care coordination consistently ranks right up there,” said SimiTree Compliance Senior Manager Sheila Salisbury-Sizemore. At a minimum, each patient’s medical record should reflect care team coordination at the following time points: Start of care.

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Relias

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Utilizing data from the most recent three calendar years, the PEPPER offers providers specific Medicare data statistics for discharges or services that may be vulnerable to improper payments. The report is available for the following facilities: Skilled nursing facilities. Long‐term acute care hospitals. Home health agencies.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In the healthcare world, the elements include entering the facility, checking in, undergoing a procedure, recovery, follow-up, and more. One is a basic practice that has taken place in every hospital in the country for many years. The opportunities for process integration are many.

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Each year, the Joint Commission issues a list of top national patient safety goals for healthcare settings, including hospitals, nursing care centers, behavioral health care and human services, ambulatory healthcare, home care, and more. Staff must be ready to speak up, confirm information, and ask questions when needed.

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CareerStep

MAY 27, 2024

Institutional, or hospital pharmacy, involves less public interaction. 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.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Claims-based measures make up 35% of the TPS and are based on acute-care hospitalizations in the first 60 days of care and emergency department use without hospitalization in the first 60 days of care. Discharged to community. TNC measures include the following: TNC Self-Care. Management of oral medications.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 10, 2023

Benjamin aspired to become an advanced practice nurse and grow within the nursing profession, but the impact outside of the hospital motivated her the most. So he picked up that habit and suffered severe health issues. So while working in the hospitals, I simultaneously did that. Talk about your role in nursing.

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Relias

AUGUST 8, 2023

In addition to staff retention, ongoing staff training has the following potential benefits: Improve staff performance Enhance quality. PAC training directly impacts the lives of the patient PAC services provide an extra level of assistance for people discharged from acute hospitals. Boost efficiency. Create problem-solvers.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

PV1 – Patient Visit: Contains information about the patient’s hospital stay, referred physicians, and locations. Typically, message events are of the following two forms: Flat Files- HL7 Version 2.4 Typically, message events are of the following two forms: Flat Files- HL7 Version 2.4

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Relias

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In a study conducted by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing , 75% of organizations that began using value-based contracts achieved benchmark results in the reduction of readmission rates and post-discharge follow-up among clients with comorbidities. How do you stack up to peer organizations?

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Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

Such a comprehensive model boosts patient outcomes alongside fortifying the infrastructure around hospital systems and physician services. This guidance proves instrumental in curtailing hospital revisits and mitigating other unfavorable outcomes. It also plays a key role in diminishing instances of readmission back into hospitals.

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Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

For God’s sake , get UP !” I had collapsed into a heap on the cold, hospital floor, falling unconscious and suffering a seizure. The nurse thrust me up, yanking me off the floor; I was hanging just by the whim of my hollow, spindly armpits. I tried to make out the quivering outline of another hospital bed opposite me.

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Setting Sights

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Experiencing both sides of the hospital curtain; as a patient, and a medical student. If that isn’t enough to choke back the tears in our tracks, a hard read I found, whilst scrolling from my own hospital bed, then I don’t know what else there is to say. Once a service that embodied health, it is now being sucked of life.

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Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

These challenges are as follows: A lack of a consistent data model, it is more implied. CDA The HL7 CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) is an XML-based standard that offers a structure or format for sharing clinical data such as progress notes, discharge summaries, and consultation notes. It also speeds up the data-sharing process.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In emergency care settings, care coordination can involve immediate care, hospital admission, discharge planning, follow-up care, and post-acute care. It can help reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, readmissions, and ED visits and improve patient outcomes, satisfaction, and safety.

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Relias

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The healthcare revenue cycle is important for every hospital and healthcare practice. Discharged, not final billed (DNFB): Revenue managers can track the number and dollar amount of DNFB files to diagnose and solve workflow issues. A high-performing billing department takes an average of 30 days or less to collect all payments due.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

During my career, I have had the opportunity to learn the details about how to set up a state-of-the-art call center telephony system and how to rapidly transition to a functional remote poison center model with our staff distributed across three states and the District of Columbia in response to the pandemic.

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