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Do your homework before making request
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If youre not using technology in your case management practice, youre doing yourself, your organization, and your patients a disservice, experts say.
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Use technology carefully and keep personal connections.
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When you have patients who are joined at the hip with their smartphones or electronic tablets, it doesnt make any sense to use any other technology to engage them and communicate with them.
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While EDs are designed to respond to acute care needs, they are often inundated by patients with complex medical, social, and behavioral health problems .
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Two-midnight rule stirs controversy.
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Medicas program for dual eligible seniors offered through the Minnesota Senior Health Options programs combines medical care coordination and psycho-social support to help seniors live independently in the community.
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As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) make yet another change in the regulations regarding "observation status, the confusion continues over when a patient qualifies or doesn't qualify for this type of care, and what is at stake in these decisions for patients and providers.
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As part of its efforts to reduce admissions and emergency department visits, Capital District Physician Health Plan (CDPHP) has embedded case managers in 15 primary care practices and is conducting a pilot project that embeds a case manager in a local hospital.