Practice Index

MAY 22, 2025

Practices warned about discharge safety Practices should ensure they assess the safety risks of the processes used to care for elderly patients after discharge from hospital. On average, practices receive 1,092 discharge summaries annually, Dr Spencer reports.

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Huddles/Rounds Discharges Tests Hospital 52

Arkenea

JUNE 8, 2025

Certified EHR are those that meet the standards defined by the certification and testing body. Hospitals are eligible if 10 percent of patients in the acute care facilities have Medicaid, and children’s hospitals. How many patients were discharged? Implement results of clinical tests in patients’ EHR.

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Discharges Vital Signs HIPAA Transfers 52

The HIPAA Journal

JUNE 12, 2025

EMTALA, often referred to as the patient dumping statute, was enacted in 1986 to prevent hospitals from transferring uninsured or Medicaid patients to public hospitals without first conducting a medical screening examination to ensure they are stable for transfer.

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Transfers Discharges Medical History Hospital 52

Practice Index

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Patients stressed by failing NHS admin NHS admin has become dysfunctional, leading to thousands of test results being lost and patient appointments becoming confused, according to a new study. They describe a patient who found themselves discharged from a service for failing to attend an appointment, in spite of their efforts to reschedule.

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Huddles/Rounds Discharges Appointments Hospital 52

Medical Economics

JULY 24, 2025

But a $30 pizza dinner and healthy meal delivery avoided an unnecessary $20,000 emergency department visit and hospitalization, she said. MA plans are refusing payment for longer patient stays or readmissions, even when a hospital readmission is unrelated to an initial episode for a patient. “In

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Insurance Billing Medication Hospital 80

Sensible Medicine

JULY 11, 2025

I did most of my inpatient general medicine on the 12 th floor of the Reisman building at Beth Israel Hospital. I remembered the details of all of their hospitalizations. The neurology consultant recommended a lumbar infusion test to help make the diagnosis and to assess whether the patient would benefit from a ventricular shunt.

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Discharges Transfers Tests Hospital 203

Sensible Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

A 76-year-old woman presents to a community hospital after waking with garbled speech and right-sided weakness. Case 1: Excess An elderly woman is admitted to a community hospital with a minor stroke. The hospital does an excellent job. By the time she leaves the hospital, she has no residual symptoms. I love my job.

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Follow-Up Tests Discharges Hospital 269

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A thoughtful H&P can avoid unnecessary tests that in turn produce false positive results that then demand further evaluation. Old-fashioned doctors routinely seek all of the patient's previous medical records, not just the discharge summaries. You make a hypothesis - a possible diagnosis - and then you test that hypothesis.

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Physical Exams Discharges Tests Diagnostics 300

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Hospital Acute Care Unit Organization and Environment Vital Signs 149

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. Hospitals need to be aware of these state-specific rules as well. Think of your documentation as the ironclad defense for your hospital admissions.

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Documentation Admissions Discharges Billing 130

Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 13, 2024

What led him or her to the hospital? Remind yourself why the patient is in the hospital every day. Whatever else goes on in the hospital, this is a problem that needs to be addressed, if not solved, prior to discharge. For any test you order, what is the diagnostic hypothesis you are testing?

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Admissions Tests Diagnostics Discharges 130

Sensible Medicine

JULY 19, 2023

What led him or her to the hospital or caused another doctor to admit the patient? Whatever else goes on in the hospital, this is a problem that needs to be addressed, if not solved, prior to discharge. For any test you order, what is the diagnostic hypothesis you are testing?

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Admissions Diagnostics Discharges Tests 189

Arkenea

MARCH 9, 2025

In recent years, hospital mobile app development has emerged as a critical tool in the healthcare industry, providing patients with convenient and accessible healthcare services. In this blog, we will explore the benefits, development process, hospital mobile app technology trends, challenges, and more.

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Hospital Tests Follow-Up Appointments 52

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

With our HealthConsuming “health is everywhere” ethos, this post updates some of the most impactful recent retail health developments shaping consumers’ health/care touchpoints beyond hospitals, physicians, and health plans. as reported in Becker’s Hospital Review.

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Discharges Hospital Diagnostics Billing 103

Guideway Care

APRIL 9, 2024

While the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey is a significant tool in measuring patient satisfaction, it represents a single aspect of the overall patient experience. HCAHPS The HCAHPS survey is a standardized tool for capturing patients’ perceptions of their hospital experience.

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Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Discharges Follow-Up 52

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Data literacy, the ability to comprehensive one’s “numbers” displayed in lab test results and other patient-facing clinical communications. Medical literacy, such as understanding medical instructions following up procedures, lab tests, and inpatient discharges to the home. On average, U.S.

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Follow-Up Discharges HIPAA Tests 78

Prism Career Institute

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

These professionals work in a wide range of environments, including doctor’s offices, medical clinics, hospitals, and more. When a doctor comes in and evaluates the patient, they may decide a test or treatment is necessary. They may even be asked to perform diagnostic testing themselves.

Medical Assistant 52

Medical Assistant Medication Vital Signs Tests 52

Accepted Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

There will always be new procedures, new medications, and new lab tests to learn about. Through patient case scenarios, the exam tests your ability to formulate a diagnosis based on a patient’s history, their physical exam, and the associated lab findings. It also tests your ability to manage a patient.

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Medication Admissions Follow-Up Physical Exams 98

Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

By fostering joint effort in managing a patients treatment plan, unnecessary tests and procedures can be curtailed. Such a comprehensive model boosts patient outcomes alongside fortifying the infrastructure around hospital systems and physician services.

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Patient Advocacy Patient Satisfaction Discharges Hospital 52

Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Each year, the Joint Commission issues a list of top national patient safety goals for healthcare settings, including hospitals, nursing care centers, behavioral health care and human services, ambulatory healthcare, home care, and more. A hospital should consider its culture when designing processes to meet the Universal Protocol.”

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Patient Safety Communication Teamwork Follow-Up 52

Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

PV1 – Patient Visit: Contains information about the patient’s hospital stay, referred physicians, and locations. This could be a request for a diagnostic test or prescription for medication. It includes the receiver and sender of the message, the date and time of the message sent, and the type of message.

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Transfers Discharges Communication Documentation 52

Southern Careers Institute

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Hospitals Hospitals are bustling hubs of healthcare activity, and medical assistants are an essential part of the team. In hospital settings, medical assistants often work in various departments, including emergency rooms, outpatient clinics, and surgical units.

Medical Assistant 52

Medical Assistant Medication Outpatient Care Vital Signs 52

Accepted Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

For example, is it a Level 1 trauma hospital? If you say, for example, that you “had to change sheets on hospital beds,” it sounds like you didn’t want to, or that you didn’t enjoy or see the value in the task! Many people make the mistake of simply listing their job duties or the lab tests they learned.

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Admissions Customer Service Discharges Hospital 40

Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

I had collapsed into a heap on the cold, hospital floor, falling unconscious and suffering a seizure. I tried to make out the quivering outline of another hospital bed opposite me. Age 23, I went through another long eight weeks of my life confined to a hospital bed, all hope at loose end. For God’s sake , get UP !”

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Admissions Follow-Up Huddles/Rounds Hospital 52

Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

HL7 promotes data sharing of records, lab reports, test results, etc., 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. through clinical applications. HL7 vs. FHIR 1.

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Follow-Up Documentation Discharges Clinical Operations 52

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Trials select their patients, test the drugs in run-in periods and use research coordinators to help patients navigate complex health systems. The Trial STRONG-HF studied two treatment strategies after a patient was discharged from the hospital after treatment for heart failure. In the real-world, there is none of that.

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Discharges Follow-Up Admissions Hospital 319

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. Her hospital course was uneventful, and she made good therapeutic use of her time on the unit. Her door was open, and she waved me in.

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Discharges Follow-Up Hospital Admissions 246

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

We so desperately need RCT data for our screening tests. In a multinational, open-label, randomized, parallel-group trial, patients aged 18–85 years, admitted to hospital with acute heart failure, were randomly assigned to either usual care or high-intensity care. So why does this article not make me more bullish on mammography?

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Follow-Up Discharges Hospital Medication 288

Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

But in the thick of the pandemic, patient trust is being tested, the report sets out. That re-shaping happened through experiences of the hospital’s clinical functions, caring behaviors, operations, and overall culture. The first diagram portrays patient trust before the pandemic. strives to get through the pandemic.

Hospital 124

Hospital Discharges Collaboration Patient Experience 124

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Further diagnostic tests reveal that the mass is a malignant neoplasm. Alert and anxious, use of accessory muscles of respiration, respiratory distress RR- 32 breaths per minute and labored, BP- 143/88 mm Hg, T- 100.3 and HgB- 7.2 On day 2 of antibiotic therapy, a repeat chest x-ray reveals the presence of a mass in the right lung.

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Triage Collaboration Diagnostics Vital Signs 106

Arkenea

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Physicians can streamline documentation procedures, and generate medical charts, and discharge instructions. Physicians can streamline the documentation procedures, and generate medical charts, also discharge instructions. Additionally, it may assist in follow-up care for patients who are recently discharged from hospitals.

Discharges 52

Discharges Follow-Up Problem Solving Skills Appointments 52

Walker Info - Patient Experience

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One is a basic practice that has taken place in every hospital in the country for many years. Supplies are traditionally kept in one control room within the hospital with additional rooms or units available on each floor. Don’t move too fast and make mistakes that will only compound the original problem.

Follow-Up 52

Follow-Up Customer Service Discharges Tests 52

Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In emergency care settings, care coordination can involve immediate care, hospital admission, discharge planning, follow-up care, and post-acute care. It can help reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, readmissions, and ED visits and improve patient outcomes, satisfaction, and safety.

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Care Plan Patient Satisfaction Acute Care Collaboration 52

Setting Sights

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Experiencing both sides of the hospital curtain; as a patient, and a medical student. If that isn’t enough to choke back the tears in our tracks, a hard read I found, whilst scrolling from my own hospital bed, then I don’t know what else there is to say. I was thus told by Hospital A to go elsewhere. Nothing else.

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Hospital Follow-Up Admissions Medication 52

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

In the midst of growing inpatient admissions and test results for COVID-19, Congress is working as I write this post to finalize a round of legislation to help Americans with the costs-of-living and (hopefully) health care in a national, mandated, clarifying way. Hospital costs could average over $20,000, the report calculated.

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Discharges Insurance Medication Admissions 103

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

But I write one of these reflections every other week and I need to satisfy my brother-in-law who texted the day after I got home from the hospital, “Well, it should give you plenty of future Sensible Medicine content…” First, because it’s kind of a good one, the story of the crash itself.

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Follow-Up Triage Discharges Scheduling 201

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 17, 2025

Dive Brief: Universal Health Services and Hippocratic AI are releasing an AI agent to help clinicians make follow-up phone calls to patients post-discharge, the companies said in a press release on Monday. Hippocratic’s tool acts as a first point of contact for patients post-discharge.

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Follow-Up Discharges Hospital Acute Care 110