The Medical Library: A Hospital’s Most Underappreciated Asset
Among healthcare professionals, the hunger for the most current knowledge requires constant feeding. Medical knowledge is always evolving. The latest research will always inform a hospital’s best practices, regardless of the type of medicine being practiced. Research bears this out.
Post-Acute Care Shortage: WellSky Report Looks at the Impact on Hospitals and Patients
Hospitals are finding it harder to place patients in home care and nursing homes. Referrals to skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and home health agencies (HHA) have increased 10% and 11%, respectively. At the same time, rejection rates to HHAs have skyrocketed 40%.
The Benefits of Interoperability Between Virtual and In-Person Care
According to a study on the unintended consequences of national EHR adoption, poor interoperability can lead to medical errors, fragmentation of patient data, redundant testing, and an overall increase in costs.
Trial Shows Benefits to Improved Remote Monitoring
Implicity, a developer of alert-based remote monitoring solutions, in collaboration with the Health Data Hub, looked at a database of over 68,000 patients linking real-world data from patients with cardiac-implantable electronic devices to remote monitoring methods and compared mortality rates, annual hospitalizations, and the cumulative duration of hospital stays.
How Medical Device Software Improves the Quality of Life for Oncology Patients
In addition to making medical devices more effective, applications that impact patients’ health can now qualify as medical devices. Such software as a medical device (SaMD) is certified within the same standards as physical gadgets to be safe and effective for patients.
ACHC Reapproved as Accrediting Organization for Another 4 Years
CMS approved ACHC as a hospital accrediting organization (AO) for another four years but only after a few adjustments to survey processes and standards, according to a notice set to be published in the Federal Register September 6.
Addressing the Health Equity Concerns Surrounding Obesity
The numbers aren’t getting better, either: The attrition rate for providers leaving healthcare increased along with burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic, and there simply are not enough of these highly trained professionals to keep up with the turnover.
Improving Equity of Care Through Understanding Bias
There are many reasons for this disparity in healthcare experiences, but it starts with social determinants of health, says Dr. Soo Rhee, vice president of medical board-certified solutions for Healthgrades and a board-certified physician in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism; internal medicine; and obesity medicine.
Report Examines Patient Trust, and Distrust, in Healthcare Data Sharing
Respondents also said that they are concerned about the possibility of a data breach impacting their medical records (95%), expressed distrust in Big Tech corporations storing their data (65%), and cited worry about security and privacy protections offered by vendors who handle their health data (54%).
Using Data and Patient Outreach to Improve Medication Adherence for the Most Frail Patients
Keeping individuals on track with their medications remains a challenge for many physician practices. Historically, this was the case for my practice as well. Much of our patient population has chronic conditions, with many having more than one.