Guideway Care

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Transitional care management (TCM) plays a critical role in reducing hospital readmissions by ensuring patients receive proper care and support as they transition from the hospital to home. By focusing on follow-up care, medication management, and patient education, TCM addresses the primary factors leading to readmissions.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Optum’s topline revenues are almost four times larger than HCA, the nation’s largest hospital company, one third larger than the entirety of Elevance, United’s most significant health plan competitor, and more than double the size of Kaiser Permanente. It is a sprawling nationwide roll-up of healthcare assets. billion since 2019.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 17, 2024

My mom grew up in a very disadvantaged neighborhood. I didn’t grow up in the best neighborhoods. As a latchkey kid who grew up in the NYC public schools, I knew I had to make it out of areas where most lack the resources to succeed. Seeing her severely ill is what sparked my interest in a healthcare career.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

The cost depends on the team, features, functionalities, and the time required to wrap up the development process. 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.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Claims-based measures make up 35% of the TPS and are based on acute-care hospitalizations in the first 60 days of care and emergency department use without hospitalization in the first 60 days of care. TNC measures include the following: TNC Self-Care. Toilet transferring. Bed transferring. TNC Mobility.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 29, 2022

The Act sets up an independent dispute resolution (IDR) process by which out-of-network providers and insurers are required to arbitrate payment rates. The Departments argued that the case should be transferred to an alternative forum under the first-to-file rule.

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 8, 2024

FHIR uses REST (Representational State Transfer) as the basis of API and for data transfer. Application programming interfaces allow information systems to streamline communication and transfer data. They transfer patient information, including treatment records, medical history, billing, and more.

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Setting Sights

MAY 2, 2022

Hospital staff dressed head to toe in hazard suits, masks and gloves, hovered outside the Emergency Department, where lines of fluorescent ‘Do Not Enter’ tape fluttered in the icy wind outside the door. That was the last time I saw the hospital, where I lived and learnt as a medical student, for a very long time.

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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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MedAssistantEDU.org

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This number is expected to increase up to 19% by 2029, as per the US department of labour data. Post this; a student becomes a certified medical assistant and ends up with competitive salaries and benefits instead of the noncertified medical assistants. It is the first requirement to start the medical assistant career path.

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Mildred Elley

AUGUST 8, 2022

In hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, and other healthcare settings, Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) offer basic care and assistance to patients. Being an LPN includes transferring patients and providing direct care which can be physically demanding. These shifts can vary between 4-12 hours depending on the employment. hormones). #2

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Mildred Elley

AUGUST 8, 2022

In hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, and other healthcare settings, Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN’s) offer basic care and assistance to patients. Being an LPN includes transferring patients and providing direct care which can be physically demanding. These shifts can vary between 4-12 hours depending on the employment. hormones). #2

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Accepted Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

And it looks just like a hospital. It looks just like a hospital. And so those students that decide to follow that path are really focused on learning about that particular population segment. And you see some people’s face, like the eyes light up and that kind of stuff. And so they have to learn a lot. Be yourself.

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Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

These challenges are as follows: A lack of a consistent data model, it is more implied. CDA includes the following elements for all clinical documents – stewardship, persistence, potential for authentication, wholeness, context, and human readability. It also speeds up the data-sharing process. HL7 vs. FHIR 1.

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Setting Sights

DECEMBER 30, 2021

A belated Christmas, and a gift to myself – a cushion reading ‘Never Give Up’ to wake up to each morning. There have been so many moments in which we’ve felt like giving up, where it’s felt like the day isn’t worth seizing, that the night isn’t worth seeing through. I couldn’t even cry.

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Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

For God’s sake , get UP !” I had collapsed into a heap on the cold, hospital floor, falling unconscious and suffering a seizure. The nurse thrust me up, yanking me off the floor; I was hanging just by the whim of my hollow, spindly armpits. I tried to make out the quivering outline of another hospital bed opposite me.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

This takes up precious time. However, certain features are common in all of them and they are as follows: Real-Time Insurance Verification: Insurance verification software checks a patient’s insurance status at real-time. This integration will facilitate data transfer of eligible patients.

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CollaborateMD

JANUARY 5, 2024

Large Hospitals: They often need more advanced features, like handling lots of patients and complex insurance claims. Medical billing must follow these rules. The right medical billing software will help you stay out of trouble by following these laws. Maybe set up training sessions or workshops. Absolutely.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

A transaction in which the parties meet the size of entity test is subject to reporting if it has one or more of the following characteristics: The proposed fair market value of the transaction exceeds $25 million and concerns the provision of health care services.

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Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

But, my colleagues’ wellbeing isn’t hanging in the balance just because of the taboo that comes with opening up on their mental health struggles, or that there is little time to address it on top of the day-to-day work pressures – it’s hanging in the balance because we are simply not supported full-stop. The virus destroyed me.

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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. These interfaces facilitate the seamless transfer of data while maintaining the necessary security measures.

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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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Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Enhanced Patient Care Patients can get annoyed by long waiting hours and freeing up time for appointments. 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.

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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. We can look up stuff. If it’s just facts, we can look them up. You see it in what our students do with their free time.

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Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

And so they’re able to give you sort of more specific and nuanced feedback than maybe if you were just on their service in the hospital for a week or even less and didn’t have a relationship with that person. So our students will select patients that they follow throughout the year in a longitudinal fashion.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2023

In response to the deal, Supermarket News said that ALDI “is shaking up the grocery sector with its acquisition” of the Winn-Dixie chain. In addition to the overall “shaking up” of the grocery store industry, might ALDI’s purchase the major food chain also expand the company’s footprint in health care?

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Relias

APRIL 6, 2022

In March, an OSHA memo announced a focused, short-term initiative involving inspections of skilled nursing facilities and hospitals that have prior citations or complaints and treat COVID-19 patients. CMS outlined steps that state survey agencies should follow to manage the backlog of complaint and recertification surveys.

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The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

It was to keep sick people from going bankrupt while helping keep the lights on at not-for-profit hospitals. It also meant longer hospital stays, more expensive equipment and care. Insurance would have to evolve to keep up with medical innovation. Many Blues merged or were acquired and rolled up into Anthem.

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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).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

7: Hospitals punish professionals for wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) in institutions. Early in the pandemic, many hospitals around the country took various punitive actions against staff who spoke out about safety issues on the front line of caring for patients diagnosed with COVID-19. agencies committed about $2.5

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

In this study, the researchers identified the following costs by stakeholder: For patients, out-of-pocket expenses, including payments for deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance amounts. Providing auto-refills for consumers transferring an Rx to Optum and opting-in to the option. Every one of the processes generates a cost.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 14, 2024

To get you all caught up and ready for her guest appearance, this story is a repost of her interview with Minority Nurse from 2018. And so that was an easy choice to transfer to full time. I think the approach needs to be more balanced with safe staffing committees in these hospitals. This reflects your journey.

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