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Electronic health records (EHRs) offer a rich resource for facilitating clinical research by identifying patients who fit the eligibility requirements for a study and allowing researchers to collaborate with primary care physicians to recruit them.
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Healthcare organizations in a variety of settings are leveraging today's technology to increase the efficiency of case managers and nurses and for early intervention of patients who are experiencing exacerbation of their disease or other problems that might lead to an emergency department visit or hospitalization.
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If you say it out loud, people will agree intuitively: You can learn more from your failures than from your successes. But that agreement doesn't mean people want to trumpet what doesn't work.
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MetroHealth System's care coordination program for the uninsured, Partners in Care, has resulted in 34.8% fewer inpatient stays at an average cost of 15.4% less than a demographically similar group of patients who were not enrolled in the program.
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University of Michigan Health System study shows unequal burden among the 116 million adults who suffer chronic pain.
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When members in UPMC Health Plan's Special Needs Plan are experiencing excessive hospital admissions and/or emergency department visits, the health plan sends a team of social workers and nurses to their homes to assess the members' healthcare and psychosocial needs and get them the resources they need to stabilize their conditions.
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Hospitals that receive federal funds are required by law to offer language assistance to patients with limited English proficiency (LEP).
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Faced with an increase in patients who seek care in the emergency departments for non-urgent conditions, health plans are looking for ways to reduce unnecessary visits to the emergency department and steer patients to more appropriate levels of care.