HIT Consultant

AUGUST 14, 2023

Furthermore, it predicts that 900,000 nurses will permanently leave the industry by 2026. Twenty-nine states face a nursing talent shortage, and if current trends persist, they will be short by nearly 100,000 nurses in the next five years. Since February 2020, hospital workforces have been reduced by more than 105,000 employees.

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Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Nursing policy management is essential to ensuring quality patient care, yet creating and maintaining health policy presents a significant challenge for most healthcare facilities. Nursing policy protects the patient who receives care and the nurse who gives it. Let’s look at the construction of a nursing policy.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

“I am a health care executive who happens to be a patient, caregiver, and advocate,” Stacy Hurt explained to me in a Zoom chat we shared on 31 May. I asked her to meet with me to discuss her professional news update: being appointed Parexel’s first Patient Ambassador. for herself and for her son, Emmett. I like business and people.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Milam has served in leadership roles throughout his psychiatric career and spearheaded the telepsychiatry initiative at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute, where he still serves as an associate professor. how streamlined licensing and credentialing can help with the psychiatrist shortage.

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Dossier

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

While technology holds great promise to improve operational efficiencies, in turn improving staff satisfaction and retention, heavily manual processes need to be taken into consideration and prioritized. Here are six ways nurse educators benefit from shifting from paper-based competency management to digital.

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Dossier

JANUARY 12, 2022

Digitizing competencies improves operations, eases resource constraints and creates staff satisfaction & better patient care. Recruitment and retention of Registered Nurses (RNs) are among the biggest challenges in healthcare. The strain this nursing shortage will put on the U.S. Nurses are exhausted and overworked.

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Dossier

JANUARY 12, 2022

Digitizing competencies improves operations, eases resource constraints and creates staff satisfaction & better patient care. Recruitment and retention of Registered Nurses (RNs) are among the biggest challenges in healthcare. The strain this nursing shortage will put on the U.S. Nurses are exhausted and overworked.

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MedTrainer

APRIL 17, 2024

Let’s look at the industry’s unique credentialing process, challenges, and how telehealth practices are adopting technology to prepare for the future. Let’s look at the industry’s unique credentialing process, challenges, and how telehealth practices are adopting technology to prepare for the future.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This paper hopefully provides some insight to new managers on how to succeed in a competitive, challenging industry. Leadership, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary, states leadership is the action of leading a group of people or an organization. This can be extremely difficult for leaders in today’s health care environment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis put a laser focus on how apparent it is that data and advanced analytics can be powerful weapons in the fight against pandemics. And the CIOs in this tenth installment of our Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature series will explain these lessons and how they are going to apply them moving forward.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 24, 2022

Through a combination of policy, education, and technology, we can start to turn the tide on PAD and improve health outcomes for vulnerable communities. Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in the United States, with more than 34 million individuals living with the condition. What is peripheral artery disease? Officially, 6.5

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YouCompli

MARCH 29, 2023

PHE Waivers Ending in May 2023 The following waivers will end in May 2023: The waiver of the requirement for a medically necessary 3-day prior inpatient hospitalization for Medicare coverage of a skilled nursing stay. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) reports that 80% of the U.S.

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YouCompli

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In this article she looks at specific ways to engage and communicate with Nursing, Physicians, Sales & Marketing, Revenue Cycle, and IT. As a practical matter though, how do we make that a reality within our organizations? As a practical matter though, how do we make that a reality within our organizations? Physicians.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

So how do we improve? How do we make our sculpture be more realistic? To better understand ways that RCM can be optimized and how to best prepare for any needed adjustments, we reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights. The key lies in optimization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

Technology leaders at U.S. health systems have learned a lot this past year-plus. They've gotten better with adaptability and rapid implementation of new workflows. Some have learned that 24- to 72-hour downtime processes are inadequate to prepare for a 23-day outage. Working with new workflows. " Dr. Andrew W. Burchett, Avera Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

So how do we get out of this cycle? So how do we get out of this cycle? Those metrics leave leadership no alternative but to look to technology to augment the lack of staff. Predictive analytics enable easier and smarter staffing decisions that improve operational efficiency and workforce satisfaction.

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Healthcare Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Given recent trends, it is possible that those workers who remain in the healthcare sector, regardless of their roles, may use unionization and the resulting collective bargaining in an effort to improve their working conditions. Three Key Recommendations for Employer Preparedness.

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Dossier

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Our evidence-based ROI calculator demonstrates more than $1M savings for a 1,000-employee nursing department, which means more nurses seeing patients and significantly more confident staff. . 90% of nurses who participated in a recent HealthITNews survey said they are considering leaving the profession within the next year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

How can you minimize the effect of this trend on your healthcare organization? How can you recruit the best people, retain talent you have and ensure a diverse workforce that reflects the patients you serve? How can you recruit the best people, retain talent you have and ensure a diverse workforce that reflects the patients you serve?

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We recommend reading Leadership in a Value-Based Care (VBC) Environment in addition to this article. Previous attempts to improve care and reduce costs has failed, thus, health care in the United States is shifting to a Value-Based Care model. Why this Trend of Value-Based Care? A 2022 report from the Commonwealth Fund U.S.

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Healthcare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I work in a specialty field, and I am a newer nurse manager. How do I know what policies are required of my specialty? Our EMR is EPIC- how do the “Clinical Skills” in EPIC and order sets compare or work together with policies and procedures? Would that be from TJC or from our health system? Where do I begin??

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Thomas Shaffer, President, Campus Clinic If you ever visited the nurses’ office or had an eye exam at school as a child, you benefitted from campus healthcare initiatives. Let’s take a look at why on-campus healthcare in schools is so vital, how it’s changed over the years, and what schools can do today to improve their healthcare options.

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Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In late April this year, the Office of Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) announced that it would make changes to its existing body of healthcare compliance program guidance (CPGs) as part of its current Modernization Initiative. [1] On November 6, 2023, OIG finally published the GCPG on its website [3].

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We recommend reading Leadership in a Value-Based Care (VBC) Environment in addition to this article. Previous attempts to improve care and reduce costs has failed, thus, health care in the United States is shifting to a Value-Based Care model. Why this Trend of Value-Based Care? A 2022 report from the Commonwealth Fund U.S.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

And while she knows how to carry out these functions, she nonetheless remains fearful of inadvertently introducing bacteria into the line and the consequences that could result. Claudia Fine, LCSW, MPH, Chief Professional Officer at eFamilyCare. This woman is not alone. Who Cares for the Caregivers? Try Googling the word “caregiving.”

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

4 Health Systems Join Provider-Created Data Collective to Improve Care. On Average, Two Nurses Are Assaulted Every Hour, New Press Ganey Analysis Finds. Gift to Expand UAFS Nursing, Arts Programs. million by Windgate Foundation to expand nursing, art programs. Amazon wants to add payer strategy muscle. CALIFORNIA.

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Hall Render

JUNE 10, 2022

As skilled nursing ‘teeters,’ leaders look to DC for help on pay rule and more. Nurses lobby for ‘RaDonda’s Law’ Physician compensation now above pre-pandemic levels. How drones are innovating Alabama’s health care industry. 2 nurses, physician stabbed at California hospital. CALIFORNIA.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

He’s part of Philips’ leadership team, and as such design informs corporate strategy at the company. Have you heard the story about a boy born in Yorkshire, England, who studies art in Birmingham, finds his way to Finland to work with design maestro Alvar Aalto, and then crafts a printer that Steve Jobs loved?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 29, 2024

THE PROBLEM "Many of these challenges were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting us to seek new ways to provide additional resources and support to our patient care staff," said Cole Rogers, RN, nurse manager at St. Luke's. " PROPOSAL Knowing it couldn’t simply keep hiring more one-to-one sitters, St.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Danielle Bowie, Chief Nursing Officer, Trusted Health Artificial intelligence is transforming the way the healthcare industry operates, from clinical decision-making to front-office tasks to financial workflows. The pandemic exacerbated existing issues such as short staffing and created new ones like skyrocketing contingent labor costs.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Teri Ridge, RN, Clinical Operations Advisor, LeanTaaS Frontline nurses across the country remain in a state of constant crisis as they attempt to deliver patient care while facing tremendously stressful environments, untenable patient-to-nurse ratios, and frustrating process inefficiencies.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In a letter sent in March to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the American Hospital Association called the workforce shortage hospitals were experiencing a “national emergency,” projecting the overall shortage of nurses to reach 1.1 And it’s not just nurses: Professionals from medical lab workers to paramedics are in short supply.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

" "We are extremely fortunate to have physicians and nurses who are very engaged and eager to interact with IT. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the U.S. early last year, life slowed down, even ground to a halt in many circumstances. But for health IT, things sped up. They needed help fast. " A truly collaborative project.

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Jane Sarashon

APRIL 28, 2024

“If data is everywhere, how do you protect it?” This thought has been on my mind well before the Change Healthcare hacks (that’s plural) with which U.S. health care stakeholders are still dealing as this post goes live on the Health Populi blog. Finally, we’ll post the last third of our conversation. RK: I’ll go ahead and date myself here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

That's the theme of this ongoing feature story series, where Healthcare IT News talks with IT leaders to focus on new lessons learned and how the executives will be applying those lessons today and into the future. The circumstances required an agility that really changed how our organization delivers technology and system enhancements.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

Trinity Health would use RPM in two ways: RPM for Trinity Health at Home, called Home Care Connect, focused on skilled home care patients; and RPM for at-risk patients following a home-care episode of care, or who do not meet skilled home care eligibility, with support of Trinity Health's Virtual Care Center. THE PROBLEM.

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YouCompli

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The obstacles to good listening skills are many. In this article, we will examine four essential listening skills that help compliance officers be more effective within their organizations. Discriminative Listening According to betterup.com , discriminative listening is a skill all humans are born with.

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