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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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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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

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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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

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.

Patient Experience 52

Patient Experience Acute Care Discharges Collaboration 52

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

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. Being in patient limbo is a terrible experience. We wait to see the provider.

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Patient Experience Discharges Physical Exams Hospital 52

Sensible Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

She is discharged on dual-antiplatelet agents and an increased statin dose. I wrote it thinking of these as experiences that underscore what worries me about medicine today: overspecialization; a loss of focus on patient care; and a devaluing of primary care when patient needs are increasing. Share Read more

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Follow-Up Tests Hospital Discharges 89

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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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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Follow-Up Appointments Scheduling Triage 52

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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Patient Satisfaction Huddles/Rounds Discharges Patient Education 52

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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Transfers Discharges Communication Documentation 52

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.

Patient Experience 90

Patient Experience Patient Satisfaction Communication Appointments 90

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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Precepting Communication Documentation Critical Thinking 52

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 Discharges Collaboration Transfers 59

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Education Is Key to Environmental Stewardship for Minority Nurses As climate change worsens, incorporating environmental awareness in nursing education will be vital to improving minority patient care and community outcomes. Though only 16.8%

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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 59

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.

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Patient Records Discharges Medical History Medication 40

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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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 52

Ciox

JULY 20, 2023

Researchers Enhance Predictive Analytics with SDOH Data Big data in healthcare has the power to transform patient care and patient outcomes. Providers Optimize Value-Based Care Using SDOH Data Value-based care organizations face challenges in fully understanding their patient panel.

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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 (..)

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Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It is especially important for patients with complex or chronic conditions, multiple comorbidities, or transitions of care. ” The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) recognizes care coordination as a core competency for nurses and offers a certification for care coordination and transition management.

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Care Plan Patient Satisfaction Acute Care Collaboration 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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Patient Advocacy Patient Satisfaction Discharges Hospital 52

Health Prime

JANUARY 10, 2024

These revisions include: Removal of time ranges from office or other outpatient visit codes (99202-99205, 99212-99215) and the alignment of the format with other E/M codes A definition to determine the “substantive portion” of a split/shared E/M visit in which a physician and a non-physician practitioner work jointly to furnish all the work related (..)

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Discharges Medication Admissions Documentation 52

Arkenea

JUNE 27, 2024

Acute Care Acute care EMR software is largely used in hospitals and other inpatient care facilities. It supports inpatient care needs such as real-time tracking of patient information, patient admission and discharge, and management of complex medical data.

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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

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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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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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.

Discharges 40

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

Relias

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The city also worked with labor unions and through its own health system to bring in practitioners from other medical fields, including dentists, pediatricians, primary care providers, and school nurses. Can you reassign any activities not directly related to serving patients to other individuals who could serve these functions?

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Unit Organization and Environment Acute Care Long Term Care Discharges 52

Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

I spent five days in the hospital and was discharged home on oxygen. The clinical focus is their passion and they are dedicated to excellent patient care. Their national conference has provided the opportunity for me to present my research and participate in larger conversations about toxicology and patient care.

Follow-Up 52

Follow-Up Triage Problem Solving Skills Certification 52

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?”

Admissions 52

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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