Looking for a new wound care EHR solution? Ask these questions first before you buy The increasing demand for quality wound care, the complexity of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), and new regulations such as the CURES Act are pushing providers to look for wound care EHR software solutions that are flexible, intuitive, scalable…
How data analytics can help SNFs improve operations and provide better care It’s a new dawn for data analytics. Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are gradually adopting data analytics technology that has long been commonplace in acute care settings. That shift has created a host of new opportunities for skilled nursing providers, including improved operations, better…
Five issues hospital teams must address to optimize their HAPI management program For busy hospital staff, caring for patients with pressure injuries (PIs) is difficult, complex, and often frustrating. Within a hospital setting, PIs are defined by the acronym HAPI, which stands for Hospital Acquired Pressure Injuries. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)…
10 questions that help turn data into actionable insights What’s one of the most widely used words in healthcare today? Chances are it’s “data.” It’s everywhere, from reporting performance and outcomes to exploring demographics and staffing patterns. The question for today is: are you using data to create actions that lead to meaningful change? Or…
How do I select the best physical therapy EMR? Between countless clinical challenges and many operational needs and hurdles, clinicians and PTs rely on the right physical therapy EMR solutions to align and optimize the components of a successful rehab therapy clinic. But what happens as the PT clinic grows and works with more patients,…
Impress your patients by building a practice based on simple methods and clear communication Managing a physical therapy clinic or office is hard work. There’s a laundry list of components that must work in tandem for everything to run properly: hiring staff, leasing an office, marketing, finances, and the list goes on. And those are…
Improve and your hospital’s rehab therapy operations, from outpatient therapy to acute care settings Hospital Directors of Rehab are medical jacks of all trades. We frequently manage care for a variety of settings and therapy departments from hospital outpatient physical therapy to acute care rehab. On the surface, the goals and requirements for acute care…
How Hospitals are Leveraging Predictive Analytics to Improve Clinical Outcomes In this blog post, we provide an overview of analytics that have been deployed in wound care in the past and examine how predictive analytics is now being applied to improve clinical and operational processes. We’ll review: While data and analytics are already playing a…
Make you, your leaders, and patients happy by avoiding HAPIs All clinicians strive to prevent hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs)…and for good reason. Stage III, Stage IV, and unstageable HAPIs are categorized as “never events” under the CMS Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) program1 and can lead to substantial penalties and lost reimbursement. About 2.5 million patients acquire…
Increase revenue and improve patient outcomes by following these steps While all top mountain climbers are likely to agree that scaling the world’s highest peaks can be perilous, most are quick to point out the descent can be much more deadly.1 The hard work is done, and during the descent, climbers are tired and perhaps…