Coronis Health

MARCH 13, 2024

Offering a Lifeline As a means of providing some measure of temporary relief, CMS began on March 9 to release funds to hospitals and other providers as a stop-gap measure to offset the current hold on payments due to the effects of the cyberattack on various healthcare operations.

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We Care Online

AUGUST 7, 2024

Hospital pharmacies are fast-paced environments where accuracy, efficiency, and patient care are paramount. Follow Protocols : Adhere to established protocols for medication preparation, including sterile compounding guidelines, to maintain quality and safety standards. Effective time management is crucial in a busy hospital pharmacy.

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The Healthcare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Two weeks after my emergency room discharge, I continued to live life as if nothing happened, returning to work without any healthcare follow-up to address my emotional burden. At only nine weeks gestation I had not seen my OB physician yet, but I was able to follow up in the office to talk about my next steps.

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Discharges Follow-Up Triage Insurance 109

EvidenceCare

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In case you aren’t familiar, the Two-Midnight Rule mandates that a patient’s hospital stay must span at least two midnights to qualify for inpatient status, directly influencing reimbursement rates and compliance requirements. This highlights the necessity for hospitals to implement clear and robust compliance documentation practices.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 11, 2023

trillion, was spent on hospital services. Patients around the country are getting stuck with enormous medical bills as hospitals continue to mark up the cost of their services, including those for routine medical procedures and advanced surgeries. In the end, the patient is forced to make up the difference.

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Scrubs

MARCH 6, 2023

They escorted her to a local hospital where she was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor before undergoing surgery to have the mass removed. Palmer reached out to the Mount Pleasant Police Department for a follow up,” the department said. On February 19, 2023, Ms. The officers wrote that she is now doing well and in recovery.

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Scrubs

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Husband of Boston Nurse Lindsay Clancy Speaks Out Following Tragic Incident Involving Their Children Lindsay Clancy, a 32-year-old nurse from Duxbury, Massachusetts, was charged with the deaths of her three young children in January 2023. First responders quickly arrived on the scene and rushed the children to the hospital.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

APRIL 25, 2022

The Acute Care Hospital at Home model (ACHAH) provides traditional hospital inpatient acute-level services at home. Prior to the pandemic a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid pilot study yielded positive results with respect to hospital readmission rates and follow-up emergency department visits.

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Hospital Acute Care Patient Satisfaction Follow-Up 52

Scrubs

MAY 9, 2023

He’s been chronicling the journey on social media to show his followers what it means to give back to the community. For his next act of kindness, Tsiliacos teamed up with Good Morning America to surprise a group of 167 nurses at Shriners Children’s Hospital/Northern California for Nurses’ Week 2023.

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Coronis Health

AUGUST 31, 2023

Many hospitals don’t have the expertise, manpower, or time to establish coding compliance and an efficient workflow. Partnering with a revenue cycle management expert with industry experience and advanced technology can help boost your reimbursements and strengthen your hospital’s compliance.

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Hospital Medical Coding Billing Documentation 52

Coronis Health

AUGUST 10, 2023

Hospital coding accuracy is a significant component of the claims process. It’s necessary for hospitals to ensure that they receive the correct reimbursement for their services. Best practices in hospital billing and coding processes are key to guiding coders as they navigate the complexities of chart documentation.

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Best Practices Hospital Medical Coding Documentation 52

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Beggs shared the videos on TikTok where she quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of views. She now has over 600k followers on the app. I work 12-hour shifts at the hospital and when that’s over, I go home and work on being an influencer and my business,” said Beggs. In fact, it’s enhancing her knowledge and experience.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Her six-year-old daughter Lorette had a fever and needed to be picked up. The nurse quickly set up a birthing area in her office using a low pediatric cot, the same place where she normally treats kids for tummy aches. Carcamo’s contractions were getting more frequent and there wasn’t time to get her to the nearest hospital.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Safety, tolerability and efficacy of up-titration of guideline-directed medical therapies for acute heart failure (STRONG-HF): a multinational, open-label, randomised, trial I’ve come out pretty strongly against GDMT. The primary endpoint was 180-day readmission to hospital due to heart failure or all-cause death.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

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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Health Populi

JULY 18, 2024

Following the BLS report on the CPI for June 2024, PwC published their new annual report from PwC titled Behind the Numbers 2025 tells us that commercial health care spending is expected to grow some 8.0% That positive economic news did not extend to medical care and personal care, the BLS reported, whose costs increased by 3.3%

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The Trial STRONG-HF studied two treatment strategies after a patient was discharged from the hospital after treatment for heart failure. Actual cardiologists performed these visits, which included up-titration of meds, but, also, as Adam correctly notes, patients had MD-level assessments. Here were the results. A: It does not.

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Discharges Follow-Up Admissions Hospital 103

Scrubs

MAY 8, 2023

Tina LaTorella, a nurse at Winchester Hospital in Winchester, Mass., She followed the source of the noise to find one of the houses in her neighborhood in flames. It was a hectic morning, but LaTorella still managed to work through her shift at the hospital. A GoFundMe had been set up to help them pay for expenses. “My

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Scrubs

APRIL 9, 2023

The healthcare industry is transforming with the introduction of ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that enables medical professionals and hospitals to streamline their workflow and provide better patient care. What Are The Benefits of ChatGPT For Medical Practices And Hospitals? So let’s dive into how ChatGPT is transforming healthcare!

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Scrubs

JUNE 16, 2023

They were just coming out of a weeks-long surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, fueled by the delta variant. a Friday, the hospital CEO’s phone rang with an urgent call. “My The hackers left a ransom note on every server, demanding the hospital pay $3 million in bitcoin within a few days. But on Oct. 1 at 3 a.m.,

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Insurance Hospital Vital Signs Billing 187

Scrubs

APRIL 5, 2023

Dereck Paul is the co-founder of Glass Health, a start-up in San Francisco that offers artificial intelligence chatbot services to doctors looking to ease the burden of routine processes, such as patient documentation. And now doctors are using it to answer routine clinical questions.

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Documentation Follow-Up Medication Hospital 357

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“I wasn’t somebody who played with dolls, except my sister’s dolls, and I would line them up in the hallway in our house in California and I would play hospital ship.” She started in the coronary care department but eventually moved up to the ICU and emergency department, but the facility wasn’t exactly equipped for urgent care.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

JULY 18, 2023

Sometimes the answer is obvious: For a company that services hospital machinery, key equipment that is not up and running can translate into delays in diagnosing and treating patients. Which customers should receive immediate follow-up? Who should “own” the follow-up process? Be intentional.

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Northwest Suburban College

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Their work is varied and incredibly important for the smooth running of clinics and hospitals. Medical assistants also play a crucial role in patient follow-up and care. This follow-up ensures that patients stay on track with their care, which improves their overall health outcomes.

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Scrubs

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The woman, granted anonymity and referred to as Nurse ZC, told the Thirlwall Inquiry into Letby’s crimes that she started as a newly qualified nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2012 on the same day as Letby. Asked to reflect on that period now, she said: “I sometimes now wake up and how can it be true?

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While consumers’ satisfaction with inpatient care experiences improved a few points over the past year, health insurance and hospitals still fall in the bottom-third of all industries with which people interact, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Insurance and Health Care Study 2021-2022.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 30, 2024

Following that determination, DRS has been working with the affected clients to review and verify the affected information and obtain up-to-date contact information to allow notification letters to be issued. The post Almost 500,000 Individuals Affected by Designed Receivable Solutions Data Breach appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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Business Associate HIPAA Follow-Up Hospital 85

Scrubs

MAY 7, 2023

When you call a patient to follow up and they don’t pick up. When the hospital refuses to hire anyone new and all the trouble falls on you and your one friend who hasn’t quit yet. When you realize that you’re basically paying to work as a nurse.

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Scrubs

JUNE 2, 2023

They were like, ‘Hey, come up front!’” They said as I got right up to the nurse’s station, I just collapsed.” The reason that she was able to survive was that she got immediate care on the floor in the hospital,” said Dr. Kristopher George, chairman of cardiothoracic surgery of Ascension Providence. “I

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.” health system.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

See my Hot Points below, discussing my views on the morphing of health care real estate from Pill Hill and inpatient hospitals to the home and closer-to-home sites. Patients most frequently make visits for primary or preventive care, followed by seeing a specialist, and seeking urgent care, the first bar chart illustrates.

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NHA Now

MAY 13, 2020

Pharmacy technician employers can be grouped into four main categories: community pharmacies (retail pharmacies), specialty pharmacies, mail-order pharmacies and hospital pharmacies. However, the day-to-day tasks of a pharmacy technician in a hospital are unique to that environment. Order and maintain protocol specific to inventory.

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Hospital Sterilization Medical History Certification 52

Healthcare Law Insights blog

MARCH 22, 2023

Senior DOJ officials have in turn emphasized in public remarks that investigating clinical research shortcomings is now a Justice Department priority, with the whistleblower bar following suit. And what can academic medical centers and other universities and hospitals do to protect themselves against the misconduct of their researchers?

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Hospital Medication Follow-Up Billing 52

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A 15-second clip of her dancing at a soul club recently went viral on TikTok, racking up over 7.5 Hodkin, a community health practitioner at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, said young people need a physical outlet to channel their anxiety as they continue to recover from the isolation brought on by the pandemic. “In million views.

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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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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.

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Scrubs

MAY 18, 2024

Nurses can be crucial navigators by providing information on hospital financial assistance programs and flexible payment plans. By participating in hospital committees or local healthcare councils, nurses can influence broader policy initiatives to improve access and reduce costs for uninsured patients.

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