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Patient education managers must stay abreast of the latest technology for delivering patient education to involve the learner and provide individualizing teaching to meet the needs of the learner, says Fran London, MS, RN, a health education specialist at The Emily Center, Phoenix (AZ) Children's Hospital.
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When case managers for Medical Management International visit clients and providers, they use the latest information technology equipment to enter documentation, create and transmit reports, forward orders for durable medical equipment, tests or procedures, and send letters to patients, physicians, attorneys, or other interested parties, all in real time while they are still with the patients.
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A comprehensive "prehabilitation" exercise program for patients with severe knee arthritis can improve strength and functional ability before knee replacement surgery, reports a study in the February issue of The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
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The last place patients want to end up after a hospital stay is right back in the hospital.
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A proactive approach to hospital readmissions by Health Alliance Plan (HAP) resulted in a 14% decline in readmissions for heart failure in the Medicare population when compared to the previous year.
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In a study reported online by the American Journal of Cardiology, Henry J. Michtalik, MD, MPH, and his colleagues tested heart failure patients on admission and discharge for levels of a protein that's considered a marker for heart stress.
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A program that provides face-to-face case management and hormone injection services for women at risk for pre-term birth has reduced the spontaneous pre-term birth rate by 8% among the Medicaid population served by the program.
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When patients don't follow their discharge plan and end up back in the hospital or fail to keep their chronic disease under control, resulting in complications, it could be that they simply don't understand what they're expected to do.
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When Ocean Medical Center in Brick, NJ, and Meridian At Home care agency collaborated on a remote monitoring program for heart failure patients, the readmission rate for heart failure dropped from 14.93% before the program began to 4.84% in the first eight months of the pilot program.
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Now that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a proposed rule that would prohibit payment for healthcare-acquired conditions for Medicaid beneficiaries, it's more important than ever that case managers work with physicians to ensure that conditions that are present on admission are clearly documented in every patient's chart, says Deborah Hale, CCS, president of Administrative Consultant Services, a health care consulting firm based in Shawnee, OK.
