Practice Index

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Patients stressed by failing NHS admin NHS admin has become dysfunctional, leading to thousands of test results being lost and patient appointments becoming confused, according to a new study. They describe a patient who found themselves discharged from a service for failing to attend an appointment, in spite of their efforts to reschedule.

Huddles/Rounds 52

Huddles/Rounds Discharges Appointments Hospital 52

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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Documentation Admissions Discharges Billing 130

Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 13, 2024

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?

Tests 130

Tests Admissions Diagnostics Discharges 130

Sensible Medicine

JULY 19, 2023

What led him or her to the hospital or caused another doctor to admit the patient? 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?

Admissions 182

Admissions Diagnostics Discharges Tests 182

Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

But in the thick of the pandemic, patient trust is being tested, the report sets out. That re-shaping happened through experiences of the hospital’s clinical functions, caring behaviors, operations, and overall culture. The first diagram portrays patient trust before the pandemic. strives to get through the pandemic.

Hospital 124

Hospital Discharges Patient Experience Collaboration 124

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

With our HealthConsuming “health is everywhere” ethos, this post updates some of the most impactful recent retail health developments shaping consumers’ health/care touchpoints beyond hospitals, physicians, and health plans. as reported in Becker’s Hospital Review.

Hospital 103

Hospital Discharges Diagnostics Billing 103

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.

Patient Satisfaction 52

Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Discharges Outpatient Care 52

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Data literacy, the ability to comprehensive one’s “numbers” displayed in lab test results and other patient-facing clinical communications. Medical literacy, such as understanding medical instructions following up procedures, lab tests, and inpatient discharges to the home. On average, U.S.

Follow-Up 77

Follow-Up HIPAA Discharges Tests 77

Accepted Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

There will always be new procedures, new medications, and new lab tests to learn about. Through patient case scenarios, the exam tests your ability to formulate a diagnosis based on a patient’s history, their physical exam, and the associated lab findings. It also tests your ability to manage a patient.

Medication 98

Medication Admissions Follow-Up Physical Exams 98

Prism Career Institute

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

These professionals work in a wide range of environments, including doctor’s offices, medical clinics, hospitals, and more. When a doctor comes in and evaluates the patient, they may decide a test or treatment is necessary. They may even be asked to perform diagnostic testing themselves.

Medical Assistant 52

Medical Assistant Medication Tests Vital Signs 52

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Further diagnostic tests reveal that the mass is a malignant neoplasm. Alert and anxious, use of accessory muscles of respiration, respiratory distress RR- 32 breaths per minute and labored, BP- 143/88 mm Hg, T- 100.3 and HgB- 7.2 On day 2 of antibiotic therapy, a repeat chest x-ray reveals the presence of a mass in the right lung.

Triage 105

Triage Diagnostics Collaboration Vital Signs 105

Walker Info - Patient Experience

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One is a basic practice that has taken place in every hospital in the country for many years. Supplies are traditionally kept in one control room within the hospital with additional rooms or units available on each floor. Don’t move too fast and make mistakes that will only compound the original problem.

Follow-Up 52

Follow-Up Customer Service Discharges Tests 52

Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

By fostering joint effort in managing a patients treatment plan, unnecessary tests and procedures can be curtailed. Such a comprehensive model boosts patient outcomes alongside fortifying the infrastructure around hospital systems and physician services.

Patient Advocacy 52

Patient Advocacy Patient Satisfaction Discharges Hospital 52

Arkenea

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Physicians can streamline documentation procedures, and generate medical charts, and discharge instructions. Physicians can streamline the documentation procedures, and generate medical charts, also discharge instructions. Additionally, it may assist in follow-up care for patients who are recently discharged from hospitals.

Follow-Up 52

Follow-Up Discharges Problem Solving Skills Appointments 52

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. A hospital should consider its culture when designing processes to meet the Universal Protocol.”

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Communication Teamwork Follow-Up 52

Accepted Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

For example, is it a Level 1 trauma hospital? If you say, for example, that you “had to change sheets on hospital beds,” it sounds like you didn’t want to, or that you didn’t enjoy or see the value in the task! Many people make the mistake of simply listing their job duties or the lab tests they learned.

Admissions 40

Admissions Customer Service Discharges Hospital 40

Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

PV1 – Patient Visit: Contains information about the patient’s hospital stay, referred physicians, and locations. This could be a request for a diagnostic test or prescription for medication. It includes the receiver and sender of the message, the date and time of the message sent, and the type of message.

Transfers 52

Transfers Discharges Communication Documentation 52

Southern Careers Institute

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Hospitals Hospitals are bustling hubs of healthcare activity, and medical assistants are an essential part of the team. In hospital settings, medical assistants often work in various departments, including emergency rooms, outpatient clinics, and surgical units.

Medical Assistant 52

Medical Assistant Medication Outpatient Care Vital Signs 52

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.

Care Plan 52

Care Plan Patient Satisfaction Acute Care Collaboration 52

Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

HL7 promotes data sharing of records, lab reports, test results, etc., 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. through clinical applications. HL7 vs. FHIR 1.

Documentation 52

Documentation Follow-Up Discharges Clinical Operations 52

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. I was thus told by Hospital A to go elsewhere. Nothing else.

Hospital 52

Hospital Follow-Up Admissions Medication 52

Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

I had collapsed into a heap on the cold, hospital floor, falling unconscious and suffering a seizure. I tried to make out the quivering outline of another hospital bed opposite me. Age 23, I went through another long eight weeks of my life confined to a hospital bed, all hope at loose end. For God’s sake , get UP !”

Admissions 52

Admissions Follow-Up Hospital Huddles/Rounds 52

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

In the midst of growing inpatient admissions and test results for COVID-19, Congress is working as I write this post to finalize a round of legislation to help Americans with the costs-of-living and (hopefully) health care in a national, mandated, clarifying way. Hospital costs could average over $20,000, the report calculated.

Discharges 102

Discharges Insurance Medication Admissions 102

We Care Online

JANUARY 15, 2025

Health Unit Coordinators perform crucial administrative functions in hospitals, clinics, and healthcare facilities, freeing up medical staff to spend more time with patients. Arranging appointments for tests and procedures. Managing admissions, transfers and discharges. Common tasks include: Managing patient records.

Health Unit Coordinator 94

Health Unit Coordinator Unit Organization and Environment Medical Terminology Certification 94

Practice Index

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Challenge of blood-test result communication According to research from the University of Bristol, practices need to maintain a range of methods for communicating blood-test results to patients. Cases of flu have been falling but there was a slight increase in the number of children in hospital with respiratory syncytial virus.

Huddles/Rounds 52

Huddles/Rounds Appointments Discharges Communication 52

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

But I write one of these reflections every other week and I need to satisfy my brother-in-law who texted the day after I got home from the hospital, “Well, it should give you plenty of future Sensible Medicine content…” First, because it’s kind of a good one, the story of the crash itself.

Follow-Up 197

Follow-Up Triage Scheduling Discharges 197

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).

HIPAA 126

HIPAA Business Associate Appointments Transfers 126

Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Hospitals/ academic centers - the behavior of hospitals is predatory, and they swallow the most cash in the entire system. How often do we discharge a patient after chemo to get Neulasta in clinic, so we can bill it as an outpatient? In the long run, they want health care spending to grow. What do you think you will say?…

Insurance 363

Insurance Billing Discharges Hospital 363