EvidenceCare

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The Impact of the Two-Midnight Rule on Denials At the 2024 HFMA Annual Conference, we asked healthcare executives if they’re seeing any changes following the CMS Two-Midnight Rule, particularly in denials. We’re still facing the same types of denials, especially with short stays where payers push back post-discharge.”

Admissions

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.

Discharges

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We meet George and Audrey in their open kitchen-dining room space, with George finishing up a conversation with his cardiologist via a tablet. Take George and Audrey.

Discharges

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. As researched by OS Inc., “If

Documentation

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.

Discharges

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.

Vital Signs

Accepted Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

The rest is up to you. The drawback of this is having to pick up and move two times. Many institutions offer more preliminary internships than residency spots (cheap labor), so interns who have not been accepted to residency can work hard and hope for acceptance (or at least a good letter of recommendation) the following year.

Medication

Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

While the plan of care is always the number one area for citations, care coordination consistently ranks right up there,” said SimiTree Compliance Senior Manager Sheila Salisbury-Sizemore. Assessing communication and collaboration. In the two weeks leading up to the date of recertification. Care coordination under HHVBP.

Hospice

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. Typically, message events are of the following two forms: Flat Files- HL7 Version 2.4 Ultimately, it made compatibility impossible.

Transfers

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. Discharged to community. TNC measures include the following: TNC Self-Care. Management of oral medications. TNC Mobility.

Acute Care

Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

For 2023, its list of patient safety goals for hospitals includes the following: Identify patients correctly. Communicating clearly about medication requirements during transitions of care — either from one hospital setting to another or during a hospital discharge — helps prevent errors. Improve staff communication. Use alarms safely.

Patient Safety

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.

Patient Advocacy

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.

Hospital

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.

Patient Safety

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. And he saw that actually as a business issue. 8:39] Absolutely.

Admissions

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.

Care Plan

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.

Discharges

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. The tool also provides automated follow-up to the user and has the capability to provide further triage recommendations based on the interaction with the user during follow-up.

Triage

Minority Nurse

MAY 10, 2023

So he picked up that habit and suffered severe health issues. And right out of high school, I signed up for a vocational nursing program, and on the pathway, you can take the early part of it and become a nursing assistant. It may sound very cliche, but I want to tell them not to give up. So I don’t want them to give up.

Hospital

Relias

JULY 14, 2022

Looking at how maternal care and mental health intersect requires the collaboration of obstetrics and behavioral health care teams. A Personal Story of Maternal Mental Health.

Patient Safety

Relias

JULY 20, 2023

We must improve care in this area of maternal health by strengthening screening, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and ongoing care using recommended screening tools and evidence-based best practices, as well as developing innovative culturally appropriate community-based programs. Collaborative care models can save lives.

Hospital

Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

It involves collaboration across diverse healthcare disciplines so as to orchestrate comprehensive management plans focused on all aspects pertinent to juvenile health outcomes. Hospitals and Cancer Centers In hospitals and cancer centers, oncology nurses work collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams to deliver comprehensive patient care.

Certification