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Friday Reflection 41: Sometimes I Just Need to Complain

Sensible Medicine

A 76-year-old woman presents to a community hospital after waking with garbled speech and right-sided weakness. Case 1: Excess An elderly woman is admitted to a community hospital with a minor stroke. The hospital does an excellent job. By the time she leaves the hospital, she has no residual symptoms. I love my job.

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Insights from Digital Health Leaders at ViVE 2025

EvidenceCare

Instead, he sees an opportunity to integrate multiple services to support both hospital and overall wellness goals. Dr. Wilcoxs journey into digital health started with a simple observation: patients in the post-anesthesia care unit were experiencing unnecessary delays in discharge, leading to longer hospital stays.

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A (re)Visit to an Old-Fashioned Doctor

Sensible Medicine

A thoughtful H&P can avoid unnecessary tests that in turn produce false positive results that then demand further evaluation. Old-fashioned doctors routinely seek all of the patient's previous medical records, not just the discharge summaries. You make a hypothesis - a possible diagnosis - and then you test that hypothesis.

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Rehumanizing the Patient Experience

Minority Nurse

We wait for the test results. We wait to be discharged. ” If you’re waiting to be discharged from the hospital, what time you’ll be able to leave is anyone’s guess since one hand often doesn’t know what the other hand is doing. We wait to see the provider. We wait for our IV to be started.

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Advice for Internship: Part II

Sensible Medicine

What led him or her to the hospital? Remind yourself why the patient is in the hospital every day. Whatever else goes on in the hospital, this is a problem that needs to be addressed, if not solved, prior to discharge. For any test you order, what is the diagnostic hypothesis you are testing?

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Preparing for CERT Audits and Practicing Compliant Documentation

EvidenceCare

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.