CollaborateMD

MARCH 7, 2025

Automation tools like RPA in healthcare can handle repetitive tasks like data entry and insurance claim processing to free up valuable time and reduce administrative burden. Improved Efficiency and Accuracy The American Medical Association (AMA) estimates that up to 12% of medical claims are submitted with inaccurate codes.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 28, 2024

The USPSTF claims "screening interventions" decrease the prevalence of depression at six-month follow-up by an odds ratio of 0.60. This number is surprising when we consider the following: A meta-analysis of six RCTs found the benefit of SSRIs, compared to placebo, to be small and statistically insignificant at six months.

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Relias

MAY 16, 2025

Patients unplanned returns to the hospital after discharge drive up costs, disrupt recovery, and reflect gaps in care. Under HRRP, hospitals received financial penalties if their readmission rates exceeded the national average a move that drove greater attention to discharge protocols and transitional care.

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Guideway Care

DECEMBER 23, 2024

By focusing on follow-up care, medication management, and patient education, TCM addresses the primary factors leading to readmissions. Effective TCM programs include key components such as comprehensive discharge planning, medication reconciliation, and patient education, which collectively enhance patient engagement and outcomes.

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Practice Builders

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Effective communication is the key element of a positive patient experience, from the first point of contact to post-appointment follow-ups. Being open and honest about appointment delays shows trust. Healthcare practitioners should make themselves accessible outside of regular appointment hours.

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Health Prime

JULY 6, 2023

Automation in healthcare can lead to multiple benefits for your practice, such as decreased manual efforts, reduced errors, increased capacity, and speeding up administrative processes. Here are five ways you can automate your practice’s workflows to free up your staff’s time, increase revenue and focus on your patients: 1.

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Relias

MAY 6, 2025

Appointment reminders and missed appointment outreach Appointment reminders and missed appointment outreach not only improve patient punctuality and reduce no-show rates, but also demonstrate an organizations commitment to patient access and satisfaction.

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Guideway Care

APRIL 9, 2024

It includes 29 questions covering various aspects of healthcare, such as communication with nurses and doctors, hospital environment, pain management, and discharge information. Also, factors such as pre-hospitalization experiences, post-discharge follow-up, and outpatient care are not included in the HCAHPS survey.

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Health Prime

JULY 6, 2023

Automation in healthcare can lead to multiple benefits for your practice, such as decreased manual efforts, reduced errors, increased capacity, and speeding up administrative processes. Here are five ways you can automate your practice’s workflows to free up your staff’s time, increase revenue and focus on your patients: 1.

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DropStat

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Some areas of patient education are: certain care procedures , such as changing a bandage disease management , such as insulin injections explaining discharge instructions pre-operative and post-operative instructions sharing of printed patient education material or digital resources What is the nurses’ role in patient education?

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Arkenea

MARCH 9, 2025

Telemedicine is useful for the following services in addition to enabling long-distance contacts: Care Advice Reminders Education Intervention Monitoring Even confessions made remotely. Reminders for medication Sadly, statistics show that only 50% of chronic disease medication regimens are followed by patients.

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Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

When patients are well-informed about their health issues and given proper instructions for care after discharge, there is a notable decrease in the rate of returning to the hospital. Advocates play an essential part in this process by providing education and ongoing support for post-discharge procedures.

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Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

I knew that none of this was simply just ‘ black or white ‘ Years upon years of flashbacks; graphics, data, unanswered phone calls, rejection letters, fruitless appointments, upturned noses and wasted time, flew through my mind. For God’s sake , get UP !” I paused some more. “I I really don’t know”, I eventually said.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 31, 2023

Luciana Luciana’s discharge day was getting close. Her outpatient follow-up appointments were scheduled; we had reviewed her safety plan; she felt well and ready to leave the hospital. I still have a job, anyway, so I can save up money to get my own place,” she said between bites. I picked it up.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

I asked her to meet with me to discuss her professional news update: being appointed Parexel’s first Patient Ambassador. My Zoom invitation to Stacy was a very convenient excuse for me to catch up with a friend in the field: we have known each other since Stacy started to grow her health-social media presence on Twitter.

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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. Patients who reported at least one SDoH concern were less likely to complete a physician follow-up visit post-discharge than patients who reported no SDOH concerns.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for physicians to order tests and then fail to follow up on results — often due to the sheer volume of patients that the physician sees. Case Facts Mr W, the patient, was a veteran who had been honorably discharged after serving 9 years in the Army, working as a mechanic.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Physicians can streamline documentation procedures, and generate medical charts, and discharge instructions. ChatGPT has become a global phenomenon, with over 1 million sign-ups to try the chatbot post-launch. With its advanced content creation features such as essays, poetry, and fiction, this AI technology is picking up pace.

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Discharges Follow-Up Problem Solving Skills Appointments 52

Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As you think about healthcare compared to other services that you receive on a daily basis, we’re just lagging so far behind in terms of how we provide digital services to our patients, to consumers, how we do follow-up, how we provide education. She physically went to my mother’s and was on the appointment.

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Ciox

JULY 20, 2023

By incorporating SDOH data, insights showed the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African American, Hispanic, and low-income populations, including: African Americans and Hispanics make up a larger than expected share of both cases and deaths.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

During my career, I have had the opportunity to learn the details about how to set up a state-of-the-art call center telephony system and how to rapidly transition to a functional remote poison center model with our staff distributed across three states and the District of Columbia in response to the pandemic.

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Practice Index

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The findings follow a recent warning to practices about the risks of using AI. They found that 29% of AI users are using them to help write reports after patient appointments. In Gloucestershire, more than 10% of appointments follow a wait of four weeks, the Lib Dems revealed. Swedish researchers surveyed GPs.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I’ve tried to stay away from the reflections that end up being part of the “doctor-as-patient” genre. [i] My daughter got out ahead of me and, as we approached the end of our ride, I remember thinking, “these damn kids, you teach them to ride a bicycle, and then they turn 18 and you can’t keep up with them.”

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

After considering the comments and feedback, the HHS then releases a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) which is followed by a comment period. The proposed new HIPAA regulations announced by OCR in December 2020 are as follows: Allowing patients to inspect their PHI in person and take notes or photographs of their PHI.

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Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

These oncology nurses diligently observe patients throughout their chemotherapy appointments, attentively addressing any negative reactions that might arise. Bone Marrow Transplant Nurses Nurses specializing in bone marrow transplants are dedicated to delivering intensive care prior to, during, and following the transplant procedure.

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