Hospital
RSSArticles
-
ED care managers offer outpatient care options
The debate raging over whether it is wrong or right for lawmakers to be looking at ways to limit ED utilization may be missing the more important discussion. -
A phone call is worth a thousand documents
-
Program seeks to stop asthma readmissions
As health care reform continues to unfold and performance-based payment models make more headway, emergency providers are pushing the boundaries beyond what the market has traditionally expected from this field of expertise. -
Incident reports don’t tell whole story
-
CM interventions prevent readmissions, ED visits
Group Health Cooperative's case managers target patients with complex medical conditions and/or psychosocial issues who have been hospitalized and work with them on managing their health with a goal of avoiding admissions, readmissions, and emergency department visits. -
Be an advocate for your patients
Whenever theres something new that has to be done, theres a tendency for administrators in many settings to assign the task to case management, often with the comment that theyre already in the patient record. -
Follow industry news while it is happening
-
Guidelines updated for bariatric surgery
Significant new scientific evidence published over the last four years has prompted three major medical societies to change their guidance on who should receive metabolic and bariatric surgery and which methods should be used. -
July issue: Best tips from your peers about how not to get sued
-
What do you do when evidence changes?
There has been a lot of talk about the importance of shifting away from process measures to determine quality of care and making more use of outcomes measures.