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Consultant: 2020 Will Bring Focus on Enterprise Quality Improvement
The new year will bring a continued focus on quality and costs. How will quality improvement professionals use enterprise systems to meet organizational goals?
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Natural Language Processing in EHRs Improves Data Accuracy
One organization’s use of natural language processing has increased efficiencies, including more accurate data management, leading to the delivery of better care quality and improved billing practices.
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Mobility Improved by Adding Exercise Physiologists to ICU
Adding exercise physiologists to ICUs can improve mobility and patient outcomes, according to the experience of three medical-surgical ICUs at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston. The addition of exercise physiologists was studied as part of a larger bundle of interventions intended to improve the quality of care for ICU patients.
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CMS Seeks to Reduce Administrative Burden on Hospitals
A new federal rule could help healthcare systems save time and money around data collection, with less need for duplicated work from nonacute care ancillary organizations.
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Health System Improves Care With Code Sepsis Program
A large health system in the state of Washington is making a major push to combat sepsis, identifying patients at high risk for sepsis and putting them on antibiotics faster.
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Enforcement Action Follows Predictable Path, Starts With a Letter
The Office for Civil Rights usually has much less patience and understanding when the covered entity or business associate has not adopted required HIPAA policies and procedures, has not properly trained and retrained its employees (no less often than once per year), failed to conduct required periodic enterprise-wide risk assessments, or failed to investigate and report a breach timely.
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Avoid Most Common HIPAA Violations With Best Practices, Education
HIPAA breaches can happen even to the best prepared healthcare organizations, but knowing the most common failings can improve your chances of staying in the good graces of the Office for Civil Rights.
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Revenue Cycle Needs Feedback From Patients and Family Advisors, Too
Patient and family advisory committees give valuable input at many hospitals. Often, though, the focus is on clinical processes more so than the revenue cycle, even though both matter to patients and families.
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Cost and Transparency Top Issues Facing Revenue Cycle
Will healthcare be able to change itself quickly enough, or will outside forces change the system in a way that may not be advantageous to consumers, providers, or insurers?
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Patients Will Compare Registration to Hotels, Retailers, and Restaurants
Fair or not, patients compare their registration experience with the check-in process at a nice hotel, making reservations at their favorite Italian restaurant, or the ease of buying a new sweater online. How would your department measure up?