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Thailand's first int'l private hospital goes 'all the way' with EMR

Healthcare It News

Then around 2011, it ran the Health Object program which had most doctors do outpatient diagnosis entry and medication orders for almost a decade. The BNH IT and medical records teams retrofitted the tool to the needs of the doctors and nurses. It was in 2016 when BNH started encouraging doctors to enter medical records into the HIS.

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Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage

Kaiser Health News

A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule that left hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without coverage for nursing home care, and no way to challenge a denial. But it can have serious repercussions. The trial took place in 2019.

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Australia ends support for 128 telehealth items

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth consultation items for nurse practitioners, midwifery, nursing and other allied health that were offered prior to the pandemic have also closed. Patient-end support items linked to pre-COVID telehealth services by GPs and other medical practitioners have ended as well. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Georgia Nursing Home Settles to Resolve Allegations of False Claims for Therapy Services

Healthcare Compliance Blog

In a March 11, 2022, release by the Northern District of Georgia’s Office of the Department of Justice, it was reported that an investigation determined a Georgia nursing home knowingly submitted claims for unreasonable, unnecessary, and unskilled services for Medicare patients. This amount was based on the nursing home’s ability to pay.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

Kelley Tucker, marketing leader and Ted Hill, vice president, would like to see the federal government standardize the collection and formatting of public health data, which is now up to each state and is done inconsistently. Some sophisticated organizations offer APIs for access to data, but others still fax or mail in a scanned document.

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The Value of an Enterprise Active Data Archive Begins with Patient Safety

HIT Consultant

Looking through lab values, vital signs, medications, provider notes, or nursing documentation, a clinician had to review each separate visitation folder and take notes on a separate piece of paper to compare them. March 2011). For new clinicians today, this probably seems ridiculous, but it was reality not long ago. References.

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Building a Culture of Patient Safety Starts with Reducing Staff Burnout

AIHC

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there is a 63% increase in the rate of injuries from violent attacks against medical professionals from 2011 to 2018. The rate for nursing and personal care facility workers was 21.8 per 100 nurses per year and at a rate of 38.8 per 100 nurses per year and at a rate of 38.8