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  • Ethical Issues and Standards in Case Management, Part 1

    This month, we will discuss principles related to ethics and how they affect one’s role as an RN case manager or a social worker. These principles include patient advocacy, which applies to all the roles and functions that case managers perform.

  • Intensive Inpatient Rehabilitation: Optimal Path for Stroke Patients

    After acute care, a stroke patient’s discharge plan should include an inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) when they meet specific medical criteria, according to the 2016 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association guidelines. Stroke also tops the CMS 13 list, which designates 13 medical conditions that 60% of an IRF’s patients must have for the IRF to qualify. IRFs provide hospital-level care to stroke patients who need intensive, interdisciplinary rehabilitation care provided under the direct supervision of a physician.

  • Children With Chronic Illness: When Compliance Is Complicated

    Children living with chronic illness often struggle with their treatment regimen. Depression and anxiety may be involved, as the child likely cannot cope. But that is just one component of the noncompliance picture. Psychological and medical trauma, as well as family issues, may be involved.

  • Case Studies Offer Clues to How Team Case Management Model Worked

    West Virginia University's team case management approach to diabetes management has led to positive outcomes with patients.

  • Program Targeting Patients With Diabetes Reaches A1c Goals

    West Virginia University's diabetes care program helped patients lower their A1c levels from an average of 10.25 to an average of 8.7 within three to six months. Even at 18-month follow-ups, 86% of patients recorded lower A1c levels than they did in the beginning, and one-third of patients registered A1c levels below 8. The team-based diabetes care program started as a quality improvement initiative.

  • Not All Capitated Payment Models Work

    Nearly a decade ago, Maryland experimented with a global budget payment model for rural hospitals. The plan was to give them a set amount of money, called Total Patient Revenue, to improve their efficiency. But it did not quite work out. ED visits dropped 12%, and non-ED admissions declined 23%. But there was little incentive for the hospitals to collaborate with community providers to improve patients’ health. Instead, the hospitals just reduced overall services.

  • Health System Reaches ED Visit Reduction Goals by Focusing on Frequent Users

    When a five-year, federally funded demonstration project began in New York, the goals were lofty: reduce preventable readmissions by 25% or more. NYU Langone Health achieved this goal through identifying frequent users and working with them through a targeted case management approach.

  • Social Engineering Scams, Attacks Can Threaten HIPAA Security

    Despite years of educating healthcare staff about the need for data security and the myriad ways people can worm their way into an otherwise secure system, employees still can fall prey to social engineering scams and allow HIPAA data breaches.

  • Checklist Items for Selecting a Compliant Vendor

    There is no quick and easy way to select a vendor to trust with HIPAA-sensitive data. It requires some legwork to determine what kind of security they have in place and possibly identify any shortcomings.

  • Vendors Continue to Be Weak Point in HIPAA Security

    Vendors always have been one of the most worrisome parts of HIPAA security because hospitals and health systems must rely on them for the appropriate technological and physical security for protected data — without the ability to dictate exactly how. Research shows that those fears are well founded, with many health organizations experiencing an increase in investigations and fines from HHS that are related to poor vendor HIPAA security.