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An innovative pilot program in Massachusetts will soon be implemented, with the goal of improving the care of children with asthma, reports David Polakoff, MD, chief medical officer of MassHealth, the Massachusetts Medicaid program. "We hope to implement this as soon as possible," he says. "This is an idea that has been kicking around for awhile; it has been tried in some small-scale pilots."
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Healthy eating is a good target area for education, because people are confused about what healthy eating means, contends Andrea Giancoli, MPH, RD, an American Dietetic Association spokesperson who lives in Southern California.
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To improve access to health care in Logan County, IL, the Healthy Communities Partnership was formed 13 years ago. The mission statement of the partners is "to improve the health and quality of life for people in the communities we serve." This is accomplished in many ways, but almost always, education is a key component.
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UnitedHealthcare's post-acute transition program has reduced the average length of stay in skilled nursing facilities by three to five days, depending on the market, for members in the program.
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A resource library for patient education should contain DVDs to help visual learners understand information, according to Taryn J. Bailey, MSN, RN-BC, executive director of Professional Practice and Patient Education Services at North Shore Medical Center in Salem, MA.
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When a health plan, a physician network, and a hospital teamed up to reverse the trend of Medicare hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge, readmissions dropped by 30% or more over an eight-month period when compared to the readmission rate in the same hospital the previous year.
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If employees don't trust you, they probably won't listen to your advice, agree to take a health risk assessment, or participate in your wellness programs.
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The Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester is conducting a $12 million, multisite study funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health aimed at improving suicide prevention in hospital emergency department (ED) patients.
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You may be proud of your hospital's progress towards adopting electronic health records (EHR), but you could be overlooking the additional risks of data security breaches.
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These are more results from the "Benchmark Study on Patient Data Security Practices," conducted by the Ponemon Institute in Traverse City, MI:
