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Penn Medicine Goes Paperless for Credentials Review Process

The Medical Staff Office (MSO) for Penn Medicine uses Echo as the source of truth for all provider information related to credentialing and health plan enrollment. Recently, the Penn Medicine MSO made a strategic decision to streamline and automate their processes.

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Leadership Development is a Growing Concern in Healthcare

Healthcare providers are functioning in a landscape that seems to be reshaped on a daily basis. While attempting to adjust to the explosion of healthcare reform, new regulations, performance standards, payment structures, ever-changing technology, and myriad other requirements, there remains the need to provide care to patients – and to do it perfectly every time.

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The Growing importance of Performance Metrics Related to Care Transitions from Hospital to Skilled Nursing

Now, as never before, hospitals have a powerful incentive to work closely with nursing homes to improve patient care, control costs, and reduce readmissions.

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Measuring and Improving Skilled Nursing Facility Effectiveness

In today’s value-based payment environment, placing patients in the highest quality, least expensive setting the first time a patient is discharged is vital. Knowing the available options and the quality measures associated with each is crucial.

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How Can Your Healthcare Organization Create an Optimal Surgical Experience? Presentation

Overcoming challenges regarding communication and engagement in healthcare and especially surgical services can be daunting; however, it is not impossible. Engaging the surgical team strategically is key to the success of great perioperative experiences. Engaged teams are more productive, involved, committed, and accountable, and they contribute to the overall success of the patient experience. The benefits of engagement include a positive culture and lower staff turnover and result in retention of seasoned and skilled staff, enhanced recruitment of new talent. Correspondingly, physicians becomes partners and champions of the surgical process and of an elevated patient experience and organizational brand loyalty. Engagement drives institutional energy, resulting in as much as 60% fewer defects, 16% higher productivity, 37% less absenteeism and 49% fewer accidents.

April 1st, 2021

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How Physicians are Getting Ready for MIPS/MACRA

The next big change in the healthcare industry is the move to Value-Based Healthcare. Value-Based Healthcare (VBH) is the delivery of evidence-based treatments through which providers are compensated based on improved patient outcomes.

April 1st, 2021

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Leaders Take Note: Your Attention to Patients Can Improve Outcomes

Within healthcare, rounding is an effective way for staff to monitor patient recovery and assess fundamental components of the hospital stay. In addition, rounding is used for diverse functions, from auditing hospital equipment to gathering feedback from employees.

April 1st, 2021

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Common Challenges to Purposeful Leader Rounding

Perhaps the most obvious constraint to purposeful leader rounding is time. With the countless tasks that hospital leaders manage behind the scenes to improve care services, it can be challenging to find the time for frontline activities.

April 1st, 2021

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Changing Healthcare Delivery: A Look at Walgreens Healthcare Clinics

As the nation’s healthcare system enters a period of profound change, clinics in retail settings offer patient access, convenience, and cost.

April 1st, 2021

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Home Health is the Bridge between Patients, Hospitals, and Physicians

Home health has evolved to play a pivotal role in the care continuum. Payers have realized that home care is a cheaper alternative to both re-hospitalization and emergent care.

April 1st, 2021

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Understanding Compliance for ADA and Section 508 Regulations

Several years ago, we started getting inquiries for our billing, security, and workforce compliance courses to be made compliant with ADA and 508 regulations. In particular, customers were expressing interest in the standards set forth by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as well as by the ADA.

April 1st, 2021

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Improve Patient Outcomes with Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support

EBSCO Health provides users with a wide array of content covering over 50 nursing specialties, leadership, management, culturally competent care, and more.

April 1st, 2021

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Using Gamification to Improve Nurse Training & Career Development

Getting, and keeping, nurses is one of the major challenges in healthcare today. Can gamification help by providing an innovative platform that not only encourages growth and development but also fosters loyalty and teamwork?

April 1st, 2021

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Adopting a High-Potential Healthcare Leadership Model

Healthcare organizations can use research about leadership to identify and sustain a pipeline of leadership talent across leadership roles. This article contains practical applications for enhancing your organization’s talent management capabilities:

April 1st, 2021

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Advancing Nursing Practice in Care Coordination and Transition Management

The time has come to advance the practice of registered nurses to include care coordination and to manage the transition of patients between settings of care, from acute care to the many ambulatory settings and the community.

April 1st, 2021

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Focus on Physician Relationships to Achieve Better Patient and Financial Outcomes

Bethesda Health CFO Joanna Aquilina shares her belief that the key to achieving good patient and financial outcomes is strong physician relationships. She highlights the importance of every CFO’s commitment to this end.

April 1st, 2021

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Exploring Nursing Education Curriculum Changes: Why, What, and Best Practices

Millennial college students have many strengths thanks to their tech awareness, but can come up short in other areas Smart educators will assess their own programs to see where they can help bridge those gaps.

April 1st, 2021

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Six Key Ways to Provide Better Care for Frail Older Adults

One in five hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries is readmitted within 30 days of discharge from an acute care setting at a cost of $2.6 billion annually; three quarters of these readmissions are potentially avoidable. Here are sic recommendations for improving healthcare for frail seniors.

April 1st, 2021

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Resuscitation Best Practices for Staff with Arthritis or Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Here are six of our most common resuscitation practice and certification tips for staff members who are challenged by arthritis in their hands or wrists, or are afflicted with carpal tunnel syndrome.

April 1st, 2021

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