Connect Care Bytes Blog

MAY 10, 2024

Launch 8 Hot Topics Day 1 and 2 (CPOE and verbal/telephone orders; Launch 8 workflow updates; prescriber support) Day 3 (find/identify patients with Medical Record Number) Day 4 (IFTs, IFT from ED to IT bed; external vs. internal lab and DI orders; Goals of Care and Green Sleeve) Day 5 (Public Health immunizations in acute care; Continuing Care admission (..)

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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. They are responsible for providing basic bedside care, such as aiding patients with meals, medication administration, wound care, and minor medical requirements, as well as personal hygiene.

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Vital Signs Medical Terminology Admissions Follow-Up 52

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. They are responsible for providing basic bedside care, such as aiding patients with meals, medication administration, wound care, and minor medical requirements, as well as personal hygiene.

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Vital Signs Medical Terminology Admissions Follow-Up 52

Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. With the shift to value-based care and risk adjustment models, there’s a need for coding that gives a complete clinical picture of the patient. Scrubbing Deficiencies.

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Documentation Medical Coding Admissions Follow-Up 52

Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. With the shift to value-based care and risk adjustment models, there’s a need for coding that gives a complete clinical picture of the patient. Scrubbing Deficiencies.

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Documentation Medical Coding Admissions Follow-Up 52

Relias

JUNE 1, 2023

If you want to retain staff, you can’t overwhelm your team,” warned Jessica Budri, RN-MSN, CHAM, Director of Patient Access at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. 7 – Streamline payer notifications of admission Banner Health’s revenue cycle staff sent faxes 20 to 100 times a day to notify health plans about a patient’s admission.

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Documentation Admissions Follow-Up Scheduling 52

Relias

JUNE 1, 2023

If you want to retain staff, you can’t overwhelm your team,” warned Jessica Budri, RN-MSN, CHAM, Director of Patient Access at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. 7 – Streamline payer notifications of admission Banner Health’s revenue cycle staff sent faxes 20 to 100 times a day to notify health plans about a patient’s admission.

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Documentation Admissions Follow-Up Scheduling 52

Relias

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Bear in mind that your rating depends on accurate documentation of your initial assessment of the patient and in your Medicare claims for the care provided. You want to be sure your team helps patients get better at elements such as mobility and taking medications correctly.

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Follow-Up Discharges Hospital Admissions 52

Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

The authors also cited the overprescription of drugs, unnecessary hospital admissions, and unnecessary testing as examples of healthcare professionals’ attempts to keep patients happy and avoid conflict. While this behavior may boost satisfaction ratings, it can also jeopardize quality of care.

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Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Scheduling Hospital 52

Relias

JANUARY 8, 2024

The physicians also questioned unnecessary hospital admissions, the over-prescription of drugs, and unnecessary testing as further examples of healthcare professionals’ attempts to keep patients happy while potentially compromising care quality.

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Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Hospital Scheduling 52

The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

This often-overlooked connection between routine medical care and opioid dependence demands urgent attention. How Physicians and Hospitals Sustain the Opioid Epidemic For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has shaped medical education, ingraining the belief that opioids are the best first-line treatment for acute pain.

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Medication Insurance Hospital Acute Care 70

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Here are the Authors’ Bios: Adrian Barnett is a professor of statistics who has worked for over 29 years in health and medical research. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Medical Journal of Australia. This sort of educational content is exactly what we aim for here at Sensible Medicine.

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Admissions Diagnostics Vital Signs Acute Care 158

Relias

MAY 1, 2022

Understanding the legal implications of gaps in care can help protect all involved: physicians, nurses, other caregivers, and healthcare administrators and leaders. Carefully assessing on admission. Not correctly identifying or describing wounds present on admission. Keeping accurate documentation. Costly Pressure Injuries.

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Documentation Admissions Acute Care Communication 98

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Where we physically lived in 2020 transformed into sites for the many daily verbs in our lives: working, learning, praying, cooking/baking/dining, exercising, and indeed, self-caring for wellness and medical care. motivating the move of patients from acute care settings to their homes where patients were found to be improving.

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Hospital Acute Care Patient Experience Medication 77

Arkenea

JUNE 27, 2024

EMRs (Electronic Medical Records) are the cornerstone of modern healthcare. Their introduction to the healthcare industry has converted paper-based medical records to electronic ones. Reports say that medical errors are one of the leading causes of death, and electronic medical records leave little to no room for documentation errors.

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Acute Care EHR / EMR Documentation Hospital 52

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Hence, the SWAT RN is a nursing role that is instrumental in the promotion of the nursing process and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s 2019 Clinical Judgment Measurement Model within the acute care setting, as they work collaboratively with bedside nurse leaders to facilitate positive patient outcomes.

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Triage Diagnostics Collaboration Vital Signs 105

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Here are the Authors’ Bios: Adrian Barnett is a professor of statistics who has worked for over 29 years in health and medical research. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Medical Journal of Australia. This sort of educational content is exactly what we aim for here at Sensible Medicine.

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Admissions Diagnostics Vital Signs Acute Care 100

Accepted Blog

JULY 2, 2024

Show Summary In this episode of Admissions Straight Talk , host Linda Abraham interviews Yael Bruk, a recent graduate from Binghamton University who was accepted to multiple medical schools. Show Notes Thanks for joining me for this, the 583rd episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Yael, welcome to Admissions Straight Talk. [1:57]

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Admissions Follow-Up Medication Tests 98

Relias

MARCH 13, 2023

Include all data points in a machine-readable file Your hospital must list your standard charges for all procedures — any item or service a patient could receive during an inpatient admission or outpatient visit — in a single machine-readable file that is easily accessible on your public website.

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Hospital Documentation Billing Insurance 52

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Jay Sanders, CEO of the Global Telemedicine Group and Founder and President Emeritus of the American Telemedicine Association; Dr. Roy Schoenberg, Co-Founder of the (then) start-up American Well (now AmWell); and, Dr. Joseph Kvedar, Professor at Harvard Medical School and long-time leader of Connected Health at Partners HealthCare.

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Hospital Acute Care Admissions Medication 71

The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

In my long industry experience, hospital boards and medical staffs do not willingly surrender their autonomy and historical identity unless forced to by economic circumstances. Compared to the Health Planning statutes target of 4 acute care beds per thousand, today the US is at 2.3 beds per thousand.

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Hospital Insurance Admissions Acute Care 83

The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As part of efforts to tackle the opioid crisis, the HHS is considering changes to both HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 regulations that serve to protect the privacy of substance abuse disorder patients who seek treatment at federally assisted programs to improve the level of care that can be provided. 21 st Century Cures Act.

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