Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

We discuss in Ending Medical Reversal why we should be suspicious of single center studies. Safety, tolerability and efficacy of up-titration of guideline-directed medical therapies for acute heart failure (STRONG-HF): a multinational, open-label, randomised, trial I’ve come out pretty strongly against GDMT.

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EvidenceCare

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In other words, the MA plan may focus its medical reviews on stays of any length in order to ensure compliance with the Two-Midnight Rule. This also means that the medical record must support the reasonableness of the clinician’s admission decision regardless of the total time spent in the facility.

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Accepted Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

For this section of our Med School Admissions: What You Need to Know To Get Accepted series, I’ll provide a brief rundown of what happens after you graduate from medical school. There will always be new procedures, new medications, and new lab tests to learn about. The rest is up to you. The rest is up to you.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 28, 2024

The USPSTF claims "screening interventions" decrease the prevalence of depression at six-month follow-up by an odds ratio of 0.60. This number is surprising when we consider the following: A meta-analysis of six RCTs found the benefit of SSRIs, compared to placebo, to be small and statistically insignificant at six months.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

What there was -- courtesy of colleagues from across the country – were cases illustrating needless excess, careless follow-up, poor commitment to clinical care, and the devaluation of primary care that undermines our entire system. She is discharged on dual-antiplatelet agents and an increased statin dose.

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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. ” Her discharge notes state Difficulty coping with anxiety for past 1-2 weeks. She was discharged with blood pressure medication. Their family is furious.

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EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

It addresses common challenges and highlights the importance of accurate and thorough medical necessity documentation , equipping leaders with the knowledge needed to navigate the intricacies of CERT audits effectively. Proper documentation helps demonstrate services were ordered based on medical necessity, not financial gain.

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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. Each of them is dealing with different medical conditions: George has been diagnosed with heart failure and Dorothy is managing COPD. Take George and Audrey.

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Guideway Care

DECEMBER 23, 2024

By focusing on follow-up care, medication management, and patient education, TCM addresses the primary factors leading to readmissions. The duration assigned for TCM activities spans over an entire month following patient discharge, with mandatory follow-up contact within two days post-discharge being one crucial component.

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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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Sensible Medicine

MAY 31, 2023

Luciana Luciana’s discharge day was getting close. Her outpatient follow-up appointments were scheduled; we had reviewed her safety plan; she felt well and ready to leave the hospital. I still have a job, anyway, so I can save up money to get my own place,” she said between bites. I picked it up.

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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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Health Prime

JULY 6, 2023

Workflow automation in healthcare creates an opportunity for medical practices to improve care delivery. Automation in healthcare can lead to multiple benefits for your practice, such as decreased manual efforts, reduced errors, increased capacity, and speeding up administrative processes.

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Practice Builders

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the competitive landscape of healthcare, patient experience plays a pivotal role in shaping the success and reputation of medical practices. Create and calculate an engaging online presence In the digital age, having a strong online presence is crucial for medical practices to attract and engage patients.

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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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Mobius MD

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Having AI check errors gives providers peace of mind while speeding up reimbursements and minimizing costly denials. One example is the AI-powered patient flow system that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center created to help staff allocate beds more effectively.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The Vanderbilt-led study will build on the burgeoning national effort to unite ICU clinicians and primary care providers in providing comprehensive care for patients starting when they are discharged from the ICU and continuing through transitional outpatient care. The post Vanderbilt Nursing Professor Receives $3.6M

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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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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. HL7 messages consist of the following components: 1.

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Health Prime

JULY 6, 2023

Workflow automation in healthcare creates an opportunity for medical practices to improve care delivery. Automation in healthcare can lead to multiple benefits for your practice, such as decreased manual efforts, reduced errors, increased capacity, and speeding up administrative processes.

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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. Documentation in the medical record. In the two weeks leading up to the date of recertification. As part of discharge planning.

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Relias

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Medical errors are a healthcare professional’s worst nightmare. Reducing medical errors can be a complex issue involving many factors. Understanding the scope of patient safety in nursing is the first step toward reducing the risk of medical errors. Unfortunately, they are also quite common. What is patient safety in nursing?

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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. At its heart, the BPCI program emphasizes strong collaboration between healthcare providers as essential for enhancing patient experiences.

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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. You want to be sure your team helps patients get better at elements such as mobility and taking medications correctly. Market Your Successes.

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

For 2023, its list of patient safety goals for hospitals includes the following: Identify patients correctly. 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. Improve staff communication. Use alarms safely.

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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 of the many responsibilities of nurses is to make sure the proper medical supplies are available in each room. The opportunities for process integration are many.

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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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Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

This version of HL7 uses standardized messages such as medical orders, demographics, lab results, administrative activities, and financial details. These challenges are as follows: A lack of a consistent data model, it is more implied. It also speeds up the data-sharing process. HL7 vs. FHIR: Which is Better?

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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.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Education on environmental laws is paramount, as these can affect how medical facilities are run and impact patient outcomes. For example, the Clean Air Act (CAA) regulates air emissions in healthcare facilities, and the Clean Water Act (CWA) regulates the discharge of pollutants into local bodies of water.

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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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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. Management of oral medications. Management of oral medications. Discharged to community. TNC Mobility. Toilet hygiene.

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DropStat

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Patient education takes place through patient teaching, when nurses teach, influence, and empower patients to manage and perform aspects of medical care on their own confidently. Self-care by patients requires education as part of standard nursing practice, using strategies such as family education. What is patient education?

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Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

For God’s sake , get UP !” The nurse thrust me up, yanking me off the floor; I was hanging just by the whim of my hollow, spindly armpits. If you don’t eat, you’ll keep ending up on the floor, and quite frankly, I don’t have the time or care for the extra paperwork. the nurse bellowed close into my ear. I felt hideous.

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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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Ciox

JULY 20, 2023

By incorporating SDOH data, insights showed the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African American, Hispanic, and low-income populations, including: African Americans and Hispanics make up a larger than expected share of both cases and deaths.

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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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