Articles Tagged With: hospitals
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Patients having trouble with registration? They’re ‘kicked out’ of kiosk for these reasons
If patients are having any type of trouble with kiosk registration at Naperville, IL-based Edward–Elmhurst Health, the kiosk instructs them to go to a registration person instead, without the patient having to ask for help.
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Justifying short inpatient stays just got easier — or did it?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has modified the controversial two-midnight rule to allow shorter stays to be billed as inpatient stays based on the physician’s judgment, but the change means that complete documentation is more important than ever before.
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Talk to each other to improve patient care, reduce readmissions
When hospital staff start examining the reasons patients are being readmitted, the famous line from the movie Cool Hand Luke may come to mind: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”
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Hospitals sued for excessive fees to obtain medical records
Two plaintiffs are suing two Washington, DC, hospitals for what they say are excessive and illegal charges for providing copies of their electronic medical records.
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IRB solutions for the age of health system growth
North Shore-LIJ Health System decided in July 2014 to restructure the local IRB into a flexible IRB model, and use videoconferencing instead of the typical board meetings in person.
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Hospital to Pay $72.4 Million over 'Secret Sweetheart Deals'
Secret sweetheart deals between hospitals and physicians? That’s how the Justice Department is describing a case settled with one healthcare system. -
Regulators: CMS issues infection control survey, OSHA drafts ID reg
Are you ready for a CMS unannounced visit using its new infection control survey? -
Hospice as continuation of care not just end of the road
Hospice evolved from the need to provide medical and social support to terminally ill patients in the last weeks of their lives. -
Telehealth helps hospital cut readmissions by 75%
Fuqua Heart Center of Atlanta (GA) at Piedmont Hospital has used telehealth technology to significantly reduce the rate of hospital readmissions for heart failure patients. -
News Briefs
The Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) devoted its June 2007 issue to a quality measurement program called the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP).