Hospital Case Management – May 1, 2007
May 1, 2007
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For case managers, business isn't a dirty word; it's just part of the job
As a case manager, your job involves being an advocate for your patients as well as keeping your hospital's best interests in mind, and that means being informed about the business end of health care. -
Be good stewards of patients' health benefits
When B.K. Kizziar, RN, CCM, CLP, speaks to groups of case managers, she asks if they know how many home care visits their own health care will provide. Few raise their hands. -
Documentation project increases case mix
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. -
Critcal Path Network: Get creative in dealing with long-stay patients
Through the efforts on an interdisciplinary team, the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics has been able to shrink the number of patients who remain in the hospital for 30 days or longer from an average of 60 or 70 in-house each day to an average of 20 or fewer. -
Critcal Path Network: Case manager coordinates care for injured workers
When injured workers come into Detroit Receiving Hospital's Level 1 trauma center at the Detroit Medical Center, their care is coordinated by a dedicated occupational health case coordinator who acts as a liaison between the emergency department's medical care team, the employee, the employer, and the workers' compensation carrier. -
Critcal Path Network: Case continues: Was man discharged too soon?
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. -
After tornado, hospital able to place all in need
In the first weeks after a tornado destroyed Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, GA, the case management staff was at loose ends. -
Cost biggest barrier to health IT adoption
Hospitals continue to accelerate their use of health information technology, with 68% reporting that electronic health records had been fully or partially implemented as of fall 2006, according to the American Hospital Association's second annual survey of hospital health IT use. -
Access Management Quarterly: Access, CM functions overlap for patient needs
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. -
Access Management Quarterly: 'Cognitive load' increasing for health care workers
Something called "cognitive load" or "cognitive work" is the centerpoint of some of the latest thinking on the way people process information and do their jobs. -
Access Management Quarterly: 'Patient portal' designed for elderly patients
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.