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Switching to an electronic discharge system was a culture shift, not only for Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) staff but for local providers as well.
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A hospital case management model may include utilization management, discharge planning, quality improvement, risk management, or clinical care management, all under one umbrella.
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Just as health care managers take a breath after rushing to make sure their hospitals are in compliance with the privacy standard, its time to kick into gear for the upcoming Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) transaction code-set deadline, which is Oct. 16, 2003.
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It was a typical scenario: The emergency department (ED) at Stonybrook (NY) University Medical Center was holding 15 or 20 admitted patients waiting for an inpatient bed to become available.
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As the Commission on Certification of Case Managers (CCMC) celebrates its 10th anniversary, leaders in the case management field say the demand for case management will continue to grow as the health care system becomes more chaotic and complicated than ever.
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Discharge planning for patients who need long-term care often is a challenge for hospital case managers, particularly if the patient is from another region.
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A time study is one way to measure productivity at the same time you reduce the disparity in assignments between your case managers.
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Final security standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for protecting patient health information when it is maintained or transmitted electronically have been adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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When a 57-year-old man walked into the emergency department (ED) at North Broward Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, FL, with slurred speech and left facial drooping, his wife told nurses that the symptoms had started about 30 minutes earlier. We immediately assumed the worst case scenario: that it was a stroke, says Sharon S. Cohen, RN, MSN, CEN, CCRN, trauma clinical nurse specialist.
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Brown County General Hospital more than doubled its upfront cash collections over the past year by offering incentives to both registrars and their bosses, says Barb Dailey, patient access director at the Georgetown, OH, facility.