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If patient access employees give incorrect information on a patient's out-of-pocket responsibility, the result will be dissatisfaction, refunds, and lost revenue.
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Telemedicine has been used to connect patients in rural areas with providers, and to obtain quick access to a neurologist when patients present with symptoms of stroke.
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Senior citizens are just like everyone else: They prefer living in their own homes where they feel secure and can do as they please, when they please, instead of being in an institution where they are at the mercy of the facility's routine.
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Although all of them qualify for a skilled nursing level of care, 86% of participants in Summit ElderCare are able to live in the community.
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Shift changes are a point of risk in hospital settings because as outgoing clinicians hand off patients to incoming staff, it is easy for important information to be missed or misunderstood. And this risk is heightened in the emergency setting, where providers are working under a constant state of urgency.
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Women with gestational diabetes who received telephone-based management from a nurse had a lower risk of high birth weight for newborns in a study conducted by the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research.
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As the country moves toward full implementation of the Affordable Care Act, one issue that many safety-net hospitals are grappling with for the first time is market competition. While it is still not clear how many states are going to go along with the reform laws expansion of Medicaid, the thinking is that in areas where newly insured patients have options for where to receive care, safety-net facilities are going to have to compete with other facilities to be the hospitals of choice.
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It is entirely understandable for emergency providers to question any new task or responsibility handed down by regulators or administrators. Busy providers are already stressed with burgeoning patient volumes and all the pressures associated with handling acute care crises.
