Walker Info - Patient Experience

JANUARY 20, 2025

Effective communication from providers correlates to stronger adherence to medical advice and treatment plans, especially for patients with chronic conditions. This encompasses both major and minor interactions from provider communication to hospital stays and even parking availability. No touchpoint is too small for inclusion.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Building a Better Health Record (BBHR) As part of our documentation quality improvement initiative , we promote practical ways for clinicians to provide clear and actionable communication at transitions of care. All have been enhanced in response to user feedback. A SHS column can be added to Rapid Rounds (and other) patient lists.

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EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

This comprehensive guide provides hospital and revenue cycle leadership with vital insights on preparing for CERT audits and establishing processes for compliant documentation. This section delves into the specific criteria and expectations set by CERT audits, emphasizing the need for meticulous attention to detail and documentation accuracy.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In certain cases, nursing homes may discharge or transfer a resident even if the resident does not consent to the discharge or transfer – this is known as an “involuntary discharge” or an “involuntary transfer.” In this case, the resident has the right to appeal the involuntary discharge or transfer. 19 CSR 30-82.050(3).

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Building a Better Health Record (BBHR) As part of our documentation quality improvement initiative , we promote practical ways for clinicians to provide clear and actionable communication at transitions of care. Demo: Discharge Readiness Integrated Planner Manual: Transition Planning

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Improve staff communication. Perhaps not surprisingly, they share a common element — they all depend on good communication practices at the organizational, team, and individual levels. Whether communicating with care team members or directly with patients, using two ways to confirm a patient’s identity must be embedded in your process.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

Building a Better Health Record (BBHR) As part of our documentation quality improvement initiative , we promote practical ways for clinicians to provide clear and actionable communication at transitions of care. Tips for finding a primary care provider can be printed and/or sent for patient use.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

Unfortunately, this hinders effective communication across multiple systems. Since healthcare software developers create a new application without collaborating with other application engineering teams, creating custom interfaces meant different languages and communication gaps. Ultimately, it made compatibility impossible.

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Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Under the first performance year of VBP in 2023, home health agencies will be scored in part on the patient’s perception of their communication and team discussion.” Patient perception of communication and team discussion are two of those five elements. Assessing communication and collaboration.

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DropStat

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The importance of nurses educating patients is well known and documented in studies showing that patient education results in greater patient compliance and leads to better health outcomes. It encourages patients to focus on their health status and better communicate their feelings and desired health outcomes to their family members.

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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. Staff training will ensure your staff is observant, can identify risks, and will promptly communicate problems to the patient’s physician.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

JANUARY 26, 2024

1 “The process of informed consent occurs when communication between a patient and physician results in the patient’s authorization or agreement to undergo a specific medical intervention.” It is also wise to document everything — including the time of medication administration and the time that consent is obtained.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

JANUARY 26, 2024

1 “The process of informed consent occurs when communication between a patient and physician results in the patient’s authorization or agreement to undergo a specific medical intervention.” It is also wise to document everything — including the time of medication administration and the time that consent is obtained.

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Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

If it’s been 8 weeks since you applied to one of these latter schools, and you haven’t received a secondary, you should do three things: First, confirm that the school accepts communications and/or additional materials. These documents will become a part of your file. Are your GPA and MCAT scores above their lowest accepted scores?

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Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

Meanwhile, telemedicine bridges communication gaps by enabling direct interaction between patients and health caregivers in real time, assisting both patients and their advocates alike. Advocates play an essential part in this process by providing education and ongoing support for post-discharge procedures.

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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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Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

CDA The HL7 CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) is an XML-based standard that offers a structure or format for sharing clinical data such as progress notes, discharge summaries, and consultation notes. This is done by obtaining access to the communication channel. This takes place when a hacker obstructs HL7 messages.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Physicians can streamline documentation procedures, and generate medical charts, and discharge instructions. ChatGPT Facilitating Translation in Healthcare Patients find it difficult to understand the medical jargon, and this can hamper communication between patients and doctors.

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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. The team should document successes and address any challenges or issues that arise. What is care coordination?

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Health Prime

JANUARY 10, 2024

These descriptors are an essential resource that hospitals, medical practices, health plans, and other CPT users can incorporate into English-language documents, such as insurance forms, price sheets, medical records, patient portals, and more.

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Relias

JULY 20, 2023

Maternal mortality is closely linked to social and behavioral factors As documented extensively, higher U.S. maternal mortality rates persist, especially in underserved communities. Ensuring that behavioral health and medical documentation are in the same system can help integrate and improve care.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

Building a Better Health Record (BBHR) As part of our documentation quality improvement initiative , we promote practical ways for clinicians to provide clear and actionable communication at transitions of care. Tip: Discharge Readiness Integrated Planner Demo: Discharge Readiness Integrated Planner Other needs (e.g.,

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

JANUARY 24, 2025

This stage will improve the electronic delivery of some results and clinical documents to healthcare providers by making "eDelivery" (i.e., This change will impact all providers who have eDelivery, whether they work solely in the community or in the community and at AHS ( mixed-context providers ), by reducing duplicative delivery.

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The Healthcare Blog

MAY 20, 2025

I literally dumped a pretty incomprehensible 26 page dense CMS RFI document into ChatGPT the other day and in a few seconds it told me what they asked for and what they were actually looking for (that unwritten subtext). They can now write in any language you like, code, create movies, music, images and are all getting better and better.

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