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Health Promotion Advocate Extends Benefits Offered to Adolescents, Young Adults
With all they have on their plates, emergency personnel generally are not enthusiastic about taking on new preventive health initiatives, but a unique program that aims to identify and respond to risky and unsafe behaviors in adolescents and young adults who present to the ED has won over both providers and staff at Boston Medical Center.
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Technology Increasingly Helps Case Managers Engage With Patients
Technology helps case management programs improve efficiency and become faster at reacting to patient problems or anticipating issues before they occur.
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Worker at Candle Factory Loses Hand, but Returns to Work With Case Management Help
A case manager shares her experience helping an injured worker recover and find a way to get back on the job.
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Case Management Is Essential in Handling Catastrophic Injuries
Case managers assigned to patients who have suffered catastrophic injuries can make a huge difference in patients’ outcomes and ability to return to work.
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Text Messages Transform Case Management for At-risk Patients
Case management texting can be an effective and affordable way to engage with high-risk patients and encourage them to follow health regimens.
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Employee Health Research Steps Up Protection of HCWs
A common truism is that “you can’t have patient safety without worker safety” — which makes intuitive sense, but lacks definitive data. A potential landmark study attempting to link the two has drawn the support of some major agencies and organizations.
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ADT Nurses Can Help Ease Bed Constraints, Patient Volumes
Managing patient throughput can be one of the biggest challenges for nursing units, with patients often remaining in the ED because there are not enough beds available on the unit, or there are not enough nurses to care for all of the patients.
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Inside-the-box Strategy Helps With Medication Management
Optima Health recently began using a new technology that includes a pill box so sensitive to weight that it can determine precisely which pill, and how many, were pulled.
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Building Post-acute Relationships in ACOs Is a Complicated Journey
For accountable care organization arrangements to succeed, healthcare organizations need good working relationships and continual communication.
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Opioid Addiction in Medicaid Population Calls for New Case Management Strategies
In recent years, the opioid epidemic has created new challenges for healthcare organizations seeking to improve population health.