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The Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) will continue to investigate charges that the Dubbo Base Hospital failed to follow up on blood test results in a patient who died a year ago from a heart infection.
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Before Mountain States Health Alliance began its documentation improvement project, an outside consulting firm reviewed the hospitals' records and estimated that the Johnson City, TN-based hospital system had the opportunity to increase reimbursement by $5 million to $6 million annually with a documentation improvement program.
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When B.K. Kizziar, RN, CCM, CLP, speaks to groups of case managers, she asks if they know how many home care visits their own health care will provide. Few raise their hands.
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Something called "cognitive load" or "cognitive work" is the centerpoint of some of the latest thinking on the way people process information and do their jobs.
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Hospitals continue to accelerate their use of health information technology, with 68% reporting that electronic health records had been fully or partially implemented as of fall 2006, according to the American Hospital Association's second annual survey of hospital health IT use.
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In the first weeks after a tornado destroyed Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, GA, the case management staff was at loose ends.
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When injured workers come into Detroit Receiving Hospital's Level 1 trauma center at the Detroit Medical Center, their care is coordinated by a dedicated occupational health case coordinator who acts as a liaison between the emergency department's medical care team, the employee, the employer, and the workers' compensation carrier.
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Through the efforts on an interdisciplinary team, the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics has been able to shrink the number of patients who remain in the hospital for 30 days or longer from an average of 60 or 70 in-house each day to an average of 20 or fewer.
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As a case manager, your job involves being an advocate for your patients as well as keeping your hospital's best interests in mind, and that means being informed about the business end of health care.
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