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Mobile Integrated Health Helps With Patients’ Transitioning Gap
A health system uses mobile integrated health to improve outcomes and reduce readmission rates among patients with chronic conditions such as heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Here’s How CHAMP Helps High-risk Asthma Patients
Called Changing High-risk Asthma in Memphis through Partnership, or CHAMP, the program incorporates various best practices, including early identification of children who could most benefit from the case management intervention.
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Asthma Case Management Program Helps Improve Children’s Health
A Memphis-based pediatric asthma program quickly produced positive results for patients and Tennessee’s Medicaid program due to its community, healthcare provider, and payer collaboration.
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Abstract and Commentary: Mindfulness and Hospital Employee Health
This effort to better understand the effect of brief mindfulness interventions on healthcare providers is a welcome approach to a poorly studied area of healthcare: how to best take care of the caregivers.
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The Shocking Suicide Rate in Female Veterinarians
Female veterinarians — the rising demographic in this field of medicine — have a fourfold higher suicide rate than their male colleagues, the CDC recently reported.
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CDC Drafts New Pertussis Guidelines
The CDC has drafted new pertussis guidance for healthcare workers as part of an ongoing update of its Guideline for Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel.
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Violence Prevention by Design in EDs
In the increasing threat of violence in healthcare, the ED is ground zero. Given the threat, it is time to start designing violence prevention in the ED structure.
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Conditions That Trigger Healthcare Violence
The Joint Commission recently issued a Sentinel Event Alert on violence in healthcare that identifies some key triggers and prevention measures.
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The Joint Commission Issues Sentinel Event Alert on Violence
With reports of violence increasingly common, The Joint Commission has issued a Sentinel Event Alert emphasizing that accreditation standards require measures to protect healthcare workers and patients.
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CMS Urges Security in Texting Clarification
In an updated memo, CMS reinforced its policy that texting of patient orders is prohibited and Computerized Provider Order Entry is the preferred method of order entry by a provider.