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Patient Identification Issues Start at Registration
Erroneous patient records can cause medical mistakes, problems with reimbursement, and even carry legal ramifications.
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Prior Auths Continue Delaying Care; Serious Adverse Events Reported
American Medical Association president laments lack of progress on an issue that may be putting lives at stake.
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Department Cuts Wait Times to Under 2 Minutes — With Fewer Registration Errors
A department won the day by finally embracing readily available software solutions.
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Patient Access Tracks Metrics Regarding Financial Experience
The patient’s financial experience has become extremely important to patient access departments, but data are not easy to collect. Learn about various tactics departments are using to close the gap.
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Tips to Help Collect Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data
This information collected at registration is for patients’ benefit. It is a way to identify the population the hospital serves, compare outcomes, and find areas that need improvement. When patients and registrars understand this, the process is easier.
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Easier to Ask for Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data if Registrars Know Why
Hospitals want to show care processes and outcomes are not different based on patient race or ethnicity. Facilities do that by collect the data, and then stratifying the whole range of hospital quality measures by race and ethnicity.
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Congress Considers Legislation Addressing Healthcare Provider Mental Health
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed historic burdens on already-taxed frontline clinicians.
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Stress Linked to STIs, Poor Sexual Health of Black Women
Black women with high levels of stress are more likely to experience sexually transmitted infections and poor sexual and reproductive health, according to the authors of new research.
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Disparities Found When Women Visit Reproductive Health Providers
Results of a new study revealed Black women are more likely to be asked about their sexual risk behavior and condom use than are white women in sexual health counseling settings.
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Engaging Young Males in Family Planning Settings
By the time most American adolescents reach the age of 13 they stop seeing a pediatrician. Young females most often transition seamlessly to a provider for gynecologic and contraceptive needs that connects them, even if loosely, to providers who can flag health issues beyond gynecological needs. However, young males often do not have a regular healthcare provider who serves as a gatekeeper for their ongoing health needs.