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Growing Role for Patient Access: Payer Contract Negotiations
Including patient access in the process is part of acknowledging the ever-expanding importance of front end participation in the revenue cycle.
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Vaping-Related Lung Injury Cases in EDs Decline, Fresh Concerns Emerge
Investigators now have more definitive data about both the trajectory of the outbreak and its potential causes.
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Can Telemedicine Deliver High-Quality Geriatric Care to Rural EDs?
Under a three-year research project, a New Hampshire medical center will be providing geriatric support and expertise to four rural hospitals through a mature telemedicine program already in place. One aim of the program is to enable senior patients in rural areas to receive high-quality geriatric care in their local EDs rather than face transfer to larger hospitals that may be far away.
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Accountability Program Helps Identify Opiate Prescribing Outliers, Addresses Education and Quality Needs
It stands to reason that fully understanding when and why providers under- or overprescribe opiate medications might assist in standardizing prescribing practices and also help bring the opioid epidemic to heel. However, most healthcare systems lack the tools to easily collect this information meaningfully.
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Emergency Physicians, Nurses Unite Against Workplace Violence
Campaign is designed to raise awareness about the on-the-job dangers ED personnel face daily, and to prompt action among key stakeholders and policymakers toward ensuring emergency clinicians and staff can operate in a safe environment.
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Treatment, Trauma-Informed Care Elevate Behavioral Health Management
Researchers are testing changes intended to improve the care and management of patients who present to the ED with behavioral health concerns. Providing trauma-informed care to these patients is critical to any improvement effort. Further, EDs should find ways to provide early treatment to these patients rather than just focusing on ways to transfer them elsewhere.
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Benchmarking: Required Reading
Discovering information that can be used to identify gaps in an organization’s processes to achieve a competitive advantage.
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Cannabinoids for Pain Relief Unproven for Surgical Cases
Surgery centers treating patients who have been using marijuana or cannabinoids for pain relief or nausea are raising questions about efficacy and side effects.
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Organizational Guidance on Marijuana Comes With Caveats, Cites Lack of Robust Research
Plenty of medical associations have released position statements addressing medical marijuana, but many cite the lack of research into cannabis as a healthcare product as a barrier to writing comprehensive, evidence-based guidelines.
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Workplace Cannabis Use Poses Risks, Legal Confusion, Testing Issues
Rapidly changing state marijuana laws may challenge surgery centers to write ironclad policies regarding drug testing and screening. Any decision made one day could be put in peril by new or updated regulations the next day.