Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Revamped ED Registration for COVID-19: ‘All Hands on Deck’
A detailed look at how registrars can help busy emergency department workers intake COVID-19 patients.
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Registration Areas with Low Volumes: ‘Great Deal of Down Time’
At some facilities, registrars may have little to work on during the COVID-19 crisis. Instead of intaking patients for elective procedures or collecting copays, these staffers are finding other ways to contribute.
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Flexible Shifts Smooth Sudden Transition to Remote Work
Hospital registration has suddenly moved from face-to-face encounters that happen right when the patient presents, to a work queue-based task handled remotely.
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Revenue Cycle at Forefront of Organizational Changes
At hospitals across the United States, administrators had to quickly create effective processes to separate COVID-19 patients from other patients. Revenue cycle leaders have been closely involved in this.
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Registrars Redeployed to Cover Overwhelmed EDs
Facilities are shuffling staff to relieve emergency department staff trying to keep up with COVID-19 triage.
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For Patient Access, COVID-19 Means ‘New Normal Every Day’
Countless news stories are reporting on what clinicians are facing in overwhelmed emergency departments and intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, few people realize what is going on behind the scenes in patient access.
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How Providers Can Weather the Pandemic
As pandemic messaging moves from containment to mitigation to recovery, national experts are giving healthcare providers tips on how to weather the storm.
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COVID-19 Shuts Down Nation; Family Planning Need Not Stop
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of American life, including nonemergency doctor visits. But from a family reproductive health point of view, the consequences of weeks of social distancing and quarantines can present new challenges.
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COVID-19 Pandemic Changes Nation While Hospitals and Case Managers Cope
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted American life and threatens to inundate hospitals with critically ill patients through the spring. Hospitals and case managers can use phone and video conferencing when feasible. Also, they can follow all infectious disease prevention measures.
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COVID-19’s Effects Hit Healthcare, Research Institutions
IRBs have learned that their disaster plans did not prepare them for the effects of a fast-moving virus, COVID-19, that has demonstrated its far-reaching ability to shut down normal business and social interactions.