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Before Mountain States Health Alliance began its documentation improvement project, an outside consulting firm reviewed the hospitals' records and estimated that the Johnson City, TN-based hospital system had the opportunity to increase reimbursement by $5 million to $6 million annually with a documentation improvement program.
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The Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) will continue to investigate charges that the Dubbo Base Hospital failed to follow up on blood test results in a patient who died a year ago from a heart infection.
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The clinical expertise of case management is increasingly being used in the access process; and in the next five years, many of the functions of the two disciplines will be consolidated, says Karen Zander, RN, MS, CMAC, FAAN, principal and co-owner at the Center for Case Management in South Natick, MA.
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A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) project that began with the Center on Aging identifying a need to communicate better with elderly patients has become an ambitious Internet initiative encompassing the entire campus.
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Emergency department physicians frequently assess and manage patients with potential hip fractures.
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Hospitals should provide ongoing training to staff on how and when to access language services, The Joint Commission recommends in a recent report.
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should define and implement an overall privacy approach identifying milestones for integrating the outcomes of its initiatives.
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Baylor Health Care has implemented an enterprise master patient index (EMPI) that will allow patients at a dozen hospitals scattered over four counties to be registered more easily and with greater assurance of accurate identification.
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Like many health care providers across the country, Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth is struggling with the challenge of ensuring accurate identification of patients.
