Connect Care Bytes Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Expanded Access to Improved Transition Planning Tools Connect Care provides a set of integrated supports that can help clinicians anticipate and plan for a patient's discharge from hospital. Designed to facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration, the Transition Planning Package improves communications within and across encounters.

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Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

Cost reduction strategies in BPCI focus on linking payment to performance, utilizing predictive analytics and interprofessional collaboration to lower expenses while maintaining high-quality care. At its heart, the BPCI program emphasizes strong collaboration between healthcare providers as essential for enhancing patient experiences.

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EvidenceCare

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

We’re still facing the same types of denials, especially with short stays where payers push back post-discharge.” Be on the lookout for post discharge audits as the Medicare Advantage plans do not have to follow the two-midnight presumption.

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Documentation Admissions Hospital Discharges 130

Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 17, 2019

Prepared Health’s platform enables hospitals to connect, collaborate and react in real-time with the multiple providers involved in a patient’s care post discharge including post-acute, […].

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EvidenceCare

MAY 29, 2024

Within just 11 months of going live, Baptist Health received the Epic Gold Star Level 10 award, a testament to their operational excellence and collaborative culture. Success Relies on Collaboration At the foundation of Baptist Health’s successful Epic implementation was their culture of collaboration.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The C-MORE/PHOSP-COVID collaborative group published their results in an important journal—called The Lancet Respiratory Medicine They screened nearly 3000 patients and found about 250 patients who had been admitted and then discharged for COVID-19. The paper is open access so you can see it yourself.

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Discharges Admissions Hospital Collaboration 130

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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EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

A compliance measure calculates the percentage of patients discharged in the appropriate inpatient or observation bed status—a determinant that can result in major financial repercussions if misclassified. The goal for the compliance measure is to have over 95% of discharges compliant.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 8, 2024

In this role, burn nurses can better assess the needs of their patients post-discharge, anticipating potential problems like lack of transportation, living conditions without heat or electricity, or unstable food resources.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

George tells us about being discharged home after dealing with heart failure in the hospital. The Lumify transducer plugs into the midwife’s tablet and captures a clinically fine image to collaborate in real-time with a doctor at another location. Take George and Audrey. This has utility for both patient and provider.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 23, 2025

Deeply committed to providing evidence-based, high-quality, compassionate, cost-effective patient care through constructive multidisciplinary collaboration and quality improvement. Extensive history as a travel nurse lends itself to readily and seamlessly adapting to novel environments, EMRs, teams, and clinical systems.

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Arkenea

JUNE 23, 2025

RAG systems can reduce this to minutes by: Instantly retrieving relevant studies from vast medical databases Summarizing key findings in the context of your specific research questions Identifying gaps in current research that align with your organization’s capabilities Comparing treatment outcomes across multiple studies with your patient population (..)

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The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Notably, some of the providers involved in the collaborative have said that their hospitals don’t like that they’ve been decreasing emergency department visits and hospitalizations because it hurts the hospital’s finances.

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Discharges Hospital Collaboration Admissions 76

Arkenea

JUNE 9, 2025

Simply put, it’s the capability of different EHR systems to share, interpret, and collaboratively use data across various healthcare environments. It expands overtime through transparent, predictable, and collaborative public procedure. But what about when these EHR systems need to ‘talk’ to one another?

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Unit Organization and Environment Documentation Patient Satisfaction Certification 52

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

million over five years to examine, with her collaborators, the efficacy of telemedicine services among people recovering from post-intensive care syndrome. Following ICU discharge, patients have problems lasting months to years that often go unaddressed,” Boehm says.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 12, 2022

To succeed in health care, interdisciplinary communication and a collaborative mission of nursing practice can result in better partnerships with hospital leadership. per discharge. Obtaining Magnet status can be expensive for smaller institutions. This translates into an added $1,229,770–$1,263,926 in income per year.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

In one case, the company has been collaborating with a health system operating 23 hospitals. In the coronavirus pandemic, hospitals want patients to be (appropriately) discharged home from hospital as soon as possible. The willingness is there now,” Roy found, due to the disruption of COVID-19.

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Hospital Acute Care Unit Organization and Environment Vital Signs 149

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2024

For early discharge monitoring , being moved from inpatient monitoring to home monitoring with follow-up care and support, again in the comfort and safety of that patient’s home. Today, Verizon announced its entry into the smart ring marketspace in collaboration with Ultrahuman’s Ring AIR product line.

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Vital Signs Hospital Collaboration Discharges 71

Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

Immediate Access to Clinical Support Virtual nurses regularly assist with tasks that do not require physical proximity to the patient, such as patient-family education, completing admission and discharge tasks, and participating in two-person verification processes.

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Admissions Collaboration Discharges Transfers 59

Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

Key Takeaways Bundled payment models promote collaborative healthcare and aim to improve care quality while controlling costs, but implementing these models can be challenging due to the need for enhanced coordination among providers.

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Accepted Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

By your final year, you can admit, treat, and discharge patients on your own and do some procedures without supervision. The goal is never to reach the point of knowing everything but rather to know your limits and when you need additional expertise or collaboration. Refer to AAMC for the training requirements for specialties.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

Since healthcare software developers create a new application without collaborating with other application engineering teams, creating custom interfaces meant different languages and communication gaps. But these companies opted for several developers for innovating applications for different applications.

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Transfers Discharges Communication Documentation 52

Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Assessing communication and collaboration. Surveyors will look for structured and unstructured types of care coordination to assess how well the care team members communicate and collaborate to provide better patient care. As part of discharge planning. In broad terms, it’s care management through teamwork.

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Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Follow-Up Documentation 52

Relias

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Discharged to community. Process changes in which the OASIS is reviewed in a more thorough manner or collaboration is occurring between clinicians after the start of care occurs. Measures based on the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) contribute to 35% of the TPS and are based on the following OASIS items: Dyspnea.

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Communicating clearly about medication requirements during transitions of care — either from one hospital setting to another or during a hospital discharge — helps prevent errors. But creating and sustaining an organizational culture that values and emphasizes teamwork and collaboration will achieve greater success in the long term.

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Patient Safety Communication Teamwork Follow-Up 52

Accepted Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

If you instead said that you “changed the sheets immediately after patients were discharged to ensure swift turnaround time and help meet patient care needs,” that demonstrates how you think ahead, take initiative, and support the work of the team and the hospital, as well as its patients.

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Southern Careers Institute

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Physician’s offices offer a friendly and collaborative atmosphere, making them an excellent choice for those who enjoy building relationships with patients and working closely with a small healthcare team. They may perform tasks such as drawing blood, collecting specimens, and assisting with patient admissions and discharges.

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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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Hospital Discharges Follow-Up Collaboration 93

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Having identified an early condition decline, bedside nurse leaders working in various clinical settings collaboratively work with SWAT RNs to promptly stabilize and prevent patient injury and death. Early detection of patients experiencing physical decline is the hallmark of the SWAT RN role. and HgB- 7.2 and HgB- 7.2

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Triage Collaboration Diagnostics Vital Signs 105

Relias

OCTOBER 10, 2023

They monitor patients’ conditions, administer medication, and convey self-care and discharge information. Educating patients Patients’ lack of compliance with post-discharge self-care routines — including wound management, medication regimens, and occupational therapy — is a common source of preventable errors in health care.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

If these four experience-flows were positive, the patient would be discharged from hospital more likely to recommend the provider to friends, family, and social networks…generating trust. That re-shaping happened through experiences of the hospital’s clinical functions, caring behaviors, operations, and overall culture.

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Hospital Discharges Collaboration Patient Experience 124

Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Healthcare providers can order groceries for a patient’s meal plan upon hospital discharge or to manage a chronic condition at home. Among Instacart’s strategics for I-Health is to scale the product Care Carts, which enables health care providers’ and caregivers’ ability to order groceries on behalf of another person.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It involves communicating and collaborating with patients, their families, and their health care teams to ensure that the patient’s needs and preferences are met and that the best possible outcomes are achieved. What is care coordination? Deliver high-quality care that is consistent with the best evidence-based standards of practice.

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Arkenea

JUNE 27, 2024

Collaborating with them means giving them access to healthcare data. It supports inpatient care needs such as real-time tracking of patient information, patient admission and discharge, and management of complex medical data. Net issues mean slow work, downtime, and going down with the system.

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Ciox

JULY 20, 2023

Example: SOURCE Collaborative explores non-healthcare factors that may impact blindness from diabetes By using SDOH to enrich clinical research , SOURCE found that lower levels of affluence in a patient’s residential community was associated with progression to blindness.

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Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Students either in MCIM or in my other classes on campus are doing work on discharge planning tools, research for rare disease platforms. We have this required practicum project that several people last year submitted business plans for. I was just on a call about a new technology to use voice to help your mom take her meds.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

This was rather eye-opening, as it takes an enormous amount of work and collaboration necessary to pull together a functional disaster preparedness plan. I spent five days in the hospital and was discharged home on oxygen. I met so many amazing people who donated their time and expertise to the project.

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