Here’s What the Numbers Say: IBM Watson Top 100 Hospitals
IBM Watson released its Top 100 Hospitals of 2018 in May, evaluating 2,785 hospitals across the United States. The annual study looks for top-performing hospitals in the U.S. based on a balanced scorecard evaluating ‘publicly available clinical, operational, and patient satisfaction metrics and data’. The metrics include analysis of key performance measures including better survival…
Net Health Celebrates Anthony Sanzo’s Birthday
June 13th isn’t just the day that the Beatles’ “Let It Be” album went #1, or the longest recorded attack of hiccups began (and continued for 68 years), it’s most importantly the day that our humble leader and CEO, Anthony Sanzo, was born. Happy birthday Anthony, keep being incredible. Boom!
Benefits of Modular Certification
Heard of MIPS? The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is one of two tracks under the Quality Payment Program, which seeks to combine and streamline existing compliance programs with a goal of easing clinical burden while promoting quality care. In most cases, providers serving in Employee Health and Occupational Medicine don’t qualify to participate (click…
Survey Says: PDPM Is an Improvement Over RCS-1
When CMS replaced RCS-1 with the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) in April, we analyzed the proposed new payment model for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and concluded the following: PDPM offers important revisions and advantages over RCS-1, but the essence of the system is very much the same. In fact, PDPM could be aptly named RCS-1.1…
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Compliant Workflow Design: Tracking Procedures Performed
Last month’s column discussed the importance of workflows needing to be defined, reviewed, and refined. In this column, we will review how wound care regulations tie to your workflow. Within the wound care department, procedures are common. The type of procedure varies based on the patient’s wound chronicity and healing trajectory. In an outpatient wound…
Compliant Workflow Design: Engage, Define, Review, and Refine
Workflow design is a key step in your department’s clinical and operational efficiencies. Workflows enhance healthcare quality and safety, patient throughput, and care coordination. These steps occur from the moment the patient contacts the department through patient discharge. Workflows need to be defined, reviewed and refined as roles in the department change, medical record requirements…
Independence at Home: A Win for Patients, the Family, Payers and Providers
A significant win for home health care took place this year when Independence at Home (IAH), a demonstration project from the CMS Innovation Center, was extended in February for an additional two years. Created under the Affordable Care Act, IAH has been testing the effectiveness of providing primary care services in the home setting for…