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Medical Roundtables Helpful in Workers’ Compensation Cases
One strategy for resolving workers’ compensation claims as quickly and optimally as possible is to assemble a medical roundtable of professional experts to review claims.
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Home-Based Palliative Care Program Keeps Patients Out of the Hospital
A North Carolina palliative care program employs doctors and other members of a healthcare team to help keep patients out of the hospital through in-home, quality care.
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Hospital Improves Care, Reduces Readmissions Related to Sepsis
As Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model continues to incentivize the transition toward value-based care, hospitals are innovating with new services and capabilities to meet its goals. -
Program Targeting Serious Illnesses Helps Reduce ED Visits, Hospital Readmissions
A healthcare provider’s case management-style program produced a 43% reduction in hospital visits and a 24% reduction in ED visits within an 18-month period, according to authors of a new study.
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Leapfrog Says Patient Safety Measures Improving; Maternity Not So Much
A recent report from the Leapfrog Group — a nonprofit organization that aims to improve healthcare quality by increasing hospital transparency — and Johns Hopkins found that poor hospital performance on 16 patient safety measures caused more than 161,000 deaths annually, a decrease from 2016. -
Nursing Innovation Underutilized, Can Be Leveraged for Career Advancement
A recent report from BDO and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing addresses how clinical and industry leaders are leveraging nurse innovation. -
Duplicate Medical Records Reduced, Improving Patient Safety
Many hospitals and health systems have a duplicate medical record rate that can threaten patient safety by fragmenting the data available to clinicians. Reducing the number of duplicates can improve patient safety. -
Hospital Reduces Invasive Procedures, Uses Escalation Huddles
Dixie Regional Medical Center, part of the Intermountain Healthcare system in St. George, UT, is reporting success with a program called POKE that significantly reduces the number of invasive procedures patients must undergo while hospitalized.