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• Embracing Expanded Telehealth Options For Non-Physician Providers

  4/15/2020

  Remote healthcare is having a breakthrough moment across the nation. For years, the full implementation of telehealth has been stymied by insurance roadblocks and bureaucratic red tape. However, with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, many providers suddenly see telehealth as the most viable way to ensure care continuity and patient safety. As a result, telehealth options are expanding at an unprecedented pace—especially within the rehab therapy space.    

• Roadmap To Cost Savings By Improving Care Variation

  5/22/2017

  To improve margins, healthcare providers must bend the cost curve to reduce wasteful spending as the industry moves from fee-for-service to value-based payments, while facing the prospect of declining reimbursement. However, many provider organizations do not know or understand where they may be losing money due to deviation from commonly accepted clinical based guidelines. By Susan Kanvik and Mitzi Raaf, Point B Management Consultants

• Using The Cloud To Drive Doctor Productivity And Patient Engagement

  2/2/2018

  Health organizations are slowly wading into the cloud, drawn by the financial and business advantages and a growing sense that HIPPA and security concerns are being addressed. These are big questions that have to be addressed before investing the time and treasure into shifting to a cloud-based system.

• Optimizing EMRs To Lessen Administrative Burdens

  2/8/2019

  Despite the current emphasis on streamlining healthcare delivery, the administrative burdens placed on today’s healthcare providers—physicians, nurses, medical assistants and office staff—are heavier than they have ever been. Between managing diverse information coming into the organization, ensuring it ends up in the right place within the electronic medical record (EMR), correctly capturing every element of a patient encounter, and accurately coding it to support proactive and comprehensive care, providers have a lot of non-clinical tasks on their plates. Amid these competing priorities, they are also expected to deliver a consistent, compassionate patient experience and smoothly handle unexpected situations.

• Reducing Diagnostic Errors Through Clinical Decision Support

  5/20/2016

  Physicians have long approached diagnoses as a mixture of art and science. CDS is a means to bolster the science portion by providing a broader clinical view of the patient, including clinical details from ambulatory EMRs and the systems of labs, radiology departments, and more combined with evidence-based best practices. CDS systems operate mainly in the background of an EMR, monitoring clinical documentation as it is being entered, and issue alerts when information, often not available at the point of care, suggests a different course of action. In certain instances, these alerts can mean the difference between a timely and accurate diagnosis and a potentially dangerous diagnostic error. By Nancy Zimmerman RN, BSN, Chief Nursing Officer for medCPU

• Digital Paper For A Smarter Hospital: How Landmark Hospitals Upgraded The Patient Experience

  2/27/2020

  Now more than ever, it is critical for information across the care continuum to be accurate. Data plays a crucial role in patient care, from Electronic Health/Medical Records (EHR/EMR) to Predictive Analytics. Digitization has been widely adopted and successful in improving workflow efficiency, enhancing the accuracy of communications, mitigating risk and improving safety for the benefit of patients.