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. It enhances coordination between providers while motivating them toward comprehensive management strategies focused on complete patient care.

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Mobius MD

DECEMBER 3, 2024

When healthcare systems deploy AI to run more smoothly, clinicians experience fewer disruptions and can focus on what matters: patient care. 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

JANUARY 25, 2024

This commitment to staying informed has not only led to successful patient outcomes but also motivated me to contribute by applying for a role on the INS board, emphasizing the importance of knowing and implementing best practices for excellent patient care. What has surprised you about being an infusion nurse?

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 19, 2023

Never hesitate to return to a patient’s room for more information or to change your plans if you have new ideas 6. Patient care is hard, and people will ask more of you than you can ever give – be strong, resilient, and take care of yourself​ 7. Do this with patient care.

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Admissions Diagnostics Discharges Tests 178

EvidenceCare

JUNE 11, 2024

In our efforts to empower hospital clinicians to provide better care by having real-time transparency to cost and benchmark utilization data, we’ve learned that one of the core code systems that defines modern hospital resource management – Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) – is misunderstood or even unknown. How did it come to be?

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Hospital Discharges Documentation Admissions 130

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For almost 40 years as the Director of Nursing for Throughput Operations at Montefiore Health System in New York, Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, has been advancing patient care and creating and defining new roles for fellow nurses and other providers. Over 27 months, Montefiore’s Discharge Lounge received more than 678 patients per month.

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Discharges Unit Organization and Environment Performance Improvement Initiatives Hospital 69

Northwest Career College

MARCH 16, 2025

Modern pharmacy technology helps improve task organization and patient care while minimizing errors. With the help of technology, the chances of human error that could be produced during medication discharge and proper dosage for the patient are reduced.

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Patient Records Discharges Medical History Medication 40

EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

HIPAA regulations: Ensure patient privacy is protected throughout the documentation process. Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) & Stark Laws: These regulations prohibit financial incentives that could influence physician decision-making regarding patient care.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 23, 2025

Deeply committed to providing evidence-based, high-quality, compassionate, cost-effective patient care through constructive multidisciplinary collaboration and quality improvement. Extensive history as a travel nurse lends itself to readily and seamlessly adapting to novel environments, EMRs, teams, and clinical systems.

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CollaborateMD

MARCH 7, 2025

Applications of automation span everything from medical billing and administrative processes to enhancing patient care through clinical decision support and real-time analytics. Patient Care Shines By automating patient care and clinical workflows, providers can improve response times and personalize treatments.

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Billing Appointments Patient Satisfaction Patient Care 52

Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 13, 2024

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. Do this with patient care. Every day, you will make changes in a patient’s management. You will start and stop antibiotics.

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Tests Admissions Diagnostics Discharges 130

Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The return on investment requires measurable patient care metrics, a superior nursing environment involved in hospital decision-making, and higher net patient revenue than non-Magnet hospitals. When nurses have an elevated level of job satisfaction, patient outcomes improve. per discharge. Reducing Burnout.

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Hospital Patient Safety Discharges Patient Care 97

Guideway Care

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Key Takeaways Transitional Care Management (TCM) improves care coordination and significantly reduces hospital readmissions through a structured approach that encompasses patient follow-up and communication. Initiatives such as Project RED and BOOST augment care transitions by conducting follow-up calls with patients.

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Discharges Follow-Up Patient Satisfaction Transfers 52

Guideway Care

APRIL 9, 2024

HCAHPS The HCAHPS survey is a standardized tool for capturing patients’ perceptions of their hospital experience. It includes 29 questions covering various aspects of healthcare, such as communication with nurses and doctors, hospital environment, pain management, and discharge information.

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Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Discharges Outpatient Care 52

Minority Nurse

MAY 11, 2023

Even the best nurses can’t operate in a silo–patient care takes a comprehensive and cohesive approach where nurses know what to do, know what everyone else does, and each nurse supports the rest of the team. Good teamwork is as essential to a high-functioning nursing unit as the nurses themselves.

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EvidenceCare

MAY 29, 2024

We don’t aim for a full hundred percent because we want to ensure providers can add their own flair to the messages.” – Dr. Stacey Johnston They have also requested early adoption of Epic’s summarizer programs to assist with discharge summaries.

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Guideway Care

JULY 3, 2024

The healthcare industry attempts to enhance patient satisfaction in hospitals through the implementation of the 5 Ps of nursing rounding. This is proactive and forms a core part of quality patient care as patients’ needs are addressed satisfactorily and efficiently.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

ADT ADT (Admit, Discharge, and Transfer) is the most common and widely used HL7 message types because it offers information for events such as patient registrations, admissions, updates, cancellations, patient data merges, discharges, and much more. It, in turn, helps improve the productivity and quality of patient care.

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Practice Builders

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Healthcare professionals can customize experiences to match individual requirements by outlining and recognizing each stage of the patient journey. This ensures a more individualized and encouraging approach to patient care.

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Patient Experience Patient Satisfaction Communication Appointments 90

Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

Virtual nurses may work from behind computer screens, but their impact is felt throughout healthcare as their expertise is increasingly integrated into patient care and nursing workflows. They now support clinical teams throughout the patient care continuum to help ease the overwhelming demands and address serious healthcare issues.

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Admissions Collaboration Discharges Transfers 59

Prism Career Institute

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They will be relied upon to help patients understand what they need to know after being discharged. But the job doesn’t stop once the patient leaves the room. You’ll need to schedule off-site tests with other facilities and call in prescriptions to the patient’s pharmacy.

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Medical Assistant Medication Tests Vital Signs 52

Northwest Career College

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Modern pharmacy technology helps improve task organization and patient care while minimizing errors. With the help of technology, the chances of human error that could be produced during medication discharge and proper dosage for the patient are reduced.

Patient Records 40

Patient Records Discharges Medical History Medication 40

CareerStep

MAY 27, 2024

Job duties of an institutional pharmacy technician Some job duties unique to a hospital pharmacy technician include: Filling medication orders (as opposed to prescriptions) Routinely preparing 24–72 hour supplies of patient medications in a form appropriate for a single administration to a patient (as opposed to a 30 or 90 day supply) Prepackaging (..)

Hospital 52

Hospital Certification Huddles/Rounds Insurance 52

Accepted Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Phase 2: USMLE Step 3 Generally taken at the end of the internship year, Step 3 assesses your grasp of clinical concepts relevant to patient care. 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.

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Medication Admissions Follow-Up Physical Exams 98

Health Prime

AUGUST 17, 2023

These 2024 ICD-10-CM codes will be for discharges and patient encounters from October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2024. Additionally, medical practices benefit from staying current on these ICD-10 coding changes as it helps them maintain compliance with regulatory requirements, avoid penalties, and enhance overall patient care.

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Discharges Medication Patient Care Billing 52

Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

Under this model, healthcare providers receive a single combined payment for all services provided during an episode of care instead of separate payments per service. The main aim is to motivate healthcare professionals to deliver high-quality and cost-efficient patient care by incentivizing better cooperation between caregivers.

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Southern Careers Institute

OCTOBER 18, 2023

They are skilled professionals who assist healthcare providers in delivering quality patient care. While they wear many hats, their primary goal is to ensure that medical practices run efficiently, and patients receive the care they need. So, let’s embark on this healthcare journey together.

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Medical Assistant Medication Outpatient Care Vital Signs 52

Accepted Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

If you instead said that you “changed the sheets immediately after patients were discharged to ensure swift turnaround time and help meet patient care needs,” that demonstrates how you think ahead, take initiative, and support the work of the team and the hospital, as well as its patients.

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Admissions Customer Service Hospital Discharges 40

Health Prime

AUGUST 17, 2023

These 2024 ICD-10-CM codes will be for discharges and patient encounters from October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2024. Additionally, medical practices benefit from staying current on these ICD-10 coding changes as it helps them maintain compliance with regulatory requirements, avoid penalties, and enhance overall patient care.

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Discharges Medication Patient Care Billing 40

Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Surveyors will look for structured and unstructured types of care coordination to assess how well the care team members communicate and collaborate to provide better patient care. This is the year of compliance with promised increased oversight of care quality and environment of care,” Richardson noted.

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Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Follow-Up Documentation 52

Arkenea

MARCH 9, 2025

Developing hospital mobile apps can help doctors and patients save time filling out forms, searching for analyses, and paying fees. Changing patient care With this kind of mobile app, hospitals can shift the entire treatment process from disease treatment to disease prevention.

Hospital 52

Hospital Tests Follow-Up Medication 52

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

In a multinational, open-label, randomized, parallel-group trial, patients aged 18–85 years, admitted to hospital with acute heart failure, were randomly assigned to either usual care or high-intensity care. High intensity care was the GDMT group. 1078 patients were randomized and the study was stopped early.

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Follow-Up Discharges Hospital Medication 284

Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

Sadly, we are not alone in this practice of oversight, the assumption so merely a stereotype , that I am almost ashamed to be entering the field of doctoring alongside those who are so ignorant to one whole patient group – one that I myself , as a chronically ill patient, falls under. How long have you been bulimic for?”

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Admissions Follow-Up Hospital Huddles/Rounds 52

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

Amidst bullish forecasts for the promise of hospital-to-home discharges, the ability for many patients to make this migration would be a difficult bridge to cross. Earlier this year, McKinsey addressed how “Care at Home” ecosystems can reshape the way health systems — and people — envision patient care.

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Hospital Discharges Follow-Up Collaboration 93

Health Populi

JULY 8, 2020

The core business of hospitals is patient care, often baked with teaching and research. Several of these are the “stick-to-the-knitting” components of the Webster Dictionary definition of hospital work: patient outcomes, clinical outcomes, avoiding overuse, patient safety, and a recent focus, patient satisfaction.

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Hospital Discharges Patient Satisfaction Patient Safety 98

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

When I was 17, I got my first job in healthcare as a patient transporter, and then I worked my way up. Then I also worked as a patient care tech in the neuro ICU during nursing school. First, I worked as a surgical assistant in surgery, cleaning up all the rooms and sterilizing them before and after procedures.

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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.

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