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The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston launched a new patient webportal that allows patients to participate in scheduling their first appointment, reports Connie Longuet, MBA, MHA, CHAM, director of patient access services.
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Occasionally, a patients name on the admission sheet jumps out at Linaka Kain, disability examiner/Medicaid specialist at Trinity Rock Island (IL) campus, because shes seen it many times in a short amount of time.
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If a registrar is in the middle of collecting demographic information from a patient, he or she might be suddenly interrupted by a clinician entering the room.
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Scores of people have died in an outbreak of fungal meningitis that has been linked to steroids compounded by the New England Compounding Center (NECC). The incident is shining a light on an area of business that many in the healthcare world use, but which has not been closely monitored in the past.
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We look at technology as a tool that has given us an edge over weather and darkness, over toil and disease. It is here to make our lives easier, better, safer.
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Patient flow and boarding have been recognized for some time as problems that hospitals need to address.
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In a concerted effort to improve patient care, payers and providers are collaborating to improve transitions of care and reduce read-missions.
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Good medication reconciliation is like the Holy Grail in healthcare. If only we could make sure that the old, sick, frail patients understand what they need to take, when and why, we could keep them from bouncing back to the hospital.
