Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Ms W was admitted to the hospital by Dr P, a pulmonologist who was employed by the hospital. “ [I]t’s essential to not just have a conversation with other providers, but to document that the conversation took place so that there will be no questions later on. By the time Dr P made it to the hospital, the patient had died.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

HL7 steps in as the ideal solution, useful for transferring electronic data across two or more healthcare systems. PV1 – Patient Visit: Contains information about the patient’s hospital stay, referred physicians, and locations. Typically, message events are of the following two forms: Flat Files- HL7 Version 2.4

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Transfers Discharges Communication Documentation 52

Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

Additionally, favorable e-prescribing standards and rules published by the CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) are increasing the adoption of e-prescribing amongst hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies. This can result in fatalities and hospitalization of patients. Thereby, ensuring better patient health and outcome.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 7, 2023

Importantly, although the court assumed the relator engaged in some protected activity, the court found that in many of her communications she, at most, characterized discrepancies in therapy documentation as mistakes or possible computer glitches, not fraud. The hospital simply left things where they were.

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Transfers Hospital Documentation Communication 52

Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

During a patient assessment, a remote nurse and an on-site nurse can efficiently work in tandem, with one managing tasks that require physical proximity to the patient and the other completing tasks such as clinical documentation, patient-family education, and expert nurse surveillance.

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Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

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. HL7 Messages are used to transfer healthcare data between disparate systems, each sending information about events such as patient admission.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

The transaction involves the sale, transfer, lease, exchange, option, encumbrance, or other disposition of 20% or more of the assets of any health care entity in the transaction. The transaction involves a change of control, responsibility, or governance of a submitting entity.

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Documentation Follow-Up Acute Care Transfers 52

Arkenea

JANUARY 3, 2025

Key Takeaway Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have revolutionized nursing documentation, making it more efficient, accurate, and accessible. Nurses typically monitor the levels every hour in hospitals. Because of this, doctors and nurses can now actively monitor patients from any location within the hospital.

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Relias

MAY 24, 2023

Research has shown that adequate nurse staffing also has the following patient safety and organizational success impacts : Decrease in hospital-acquired infections Decrease in falls and patient injuries Decrease in readmissions Steps to improve your staffing status How do healthcare organizations achieve safe staffing?

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Relias

MAY 24, 2023

Research has shown that adequate nurse staffing also has the following patient safety and organizational success impacts : Decrease in hospital-acquired infections Decrease in falls and patient injuries Decrease in readmissions Steps to improve your staffing status How do healthcare organizations achieve safe staffing?

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Patient Safety Unit Organization and Environment Huddles/Rounds De-Escalation 52

Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Improved Efficiency: In a manual insurance verification process, the admin staff enters the insurance documentation into the system and then calls the payer to confirm eligibility. This integration will facilitate data transfer of eligible patients. Reduced errors leads to fewer claim denials and delayed payments.

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Insurance EHR / EMR Medication Patient Satisfaction 52

Ciox

AUGUST 3, 2023

Health information exchange (HIE) is the secure and seamless sharing of patient medical information electronically between healthcare organizations, such as hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and physicians’ offices. Quality improvement of clinical documentation. What is Health Information Exchange (HIE)?

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Unit Organization and Environment Medical History Transfers Tests 40

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 11, 2025

Randomized controlled trials could be done, but it would be difficult to find patients willing to be randomized to planned home vs. hospital delivery. Unplanned home births will obviously have worse outcomes than either hospital births or planned home births. Examining the Available Evidence Home birth is a complex topic to study.

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Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

Yet, even when I was a medical student, working busy days on the wards and in clinics, with even the petty things still lingering from my past, the PTSD from my own hospital experiences, I thought it was all okay, because I spoke about it, and wrote about it openly, on different platforms. Now I realise that wasn’t, and isn’t , enough.

Admissions 52

Admissions Huddles/Rounds Follow-Up Hospital 52

Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

It’s more efficient to look at a calendar and book a date than call a clinic/hospital to find a convenient time for an appointment. Compliance ensures that all ePHI is stored, transferred, and viewed securely. Appointment Scheduler Online appointment scheduling improves care coordination. outsourcing cuts down these expenses.

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HIPAA Appointments Scheduling Tests 52

Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You see it in the particular areas of expertise of our faculty, and of course it’s in the patients that we serve at our primary hospital, which is really on the same campus with the medical school. But we also have affiliations with some community hospitals. And the hospital across town might use a different protocol.

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Admissions Medication Follow-Up Hospital 52

Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 13, 2025

What is more, European practice relies heavily on guideline documents. Hospitals, too, lose money when fewer ICDs are implanted. My talk at the Kardiologie Symposium on Saturday focused on the future of knowledge transfer in cardiology. Potential reasons for slow enrollment include the boldness of the study question.

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Transfers Medication Documentation Hospital 244

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. Managing admissions, transfers and discharges. Document and communicate with the healthcare team. Healthcare documentation. Communication skills.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Building a Better Health Record (BBHR) As part of our documentation quality improvement initiative , we promote practical ways for clinicians to provide clear and actionable communication at transitions of care. All have been enhanced in response to user feedback. A SHS column can be added to Rapid Rounds (and other) patient lists.

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