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ReviewManagement How to Encourage Patients to Leave Reviews: Strategies for Healthcare Providers: As the growth in the number of healthcare centers becomes stiffer in the current world, patient reviews are proving to be very crucial. Today’s patient wants to read the comments other patients left before arriving to seek treatment at this hospital; therefore, online reviews are key to patient attraction, validation, and credibility. But as we […] The post How to Encourage Patients to Leave Reviews: Strategies for Healthcare Providers appeared first on RatingE. RatingE

The Importance of Prescription Audits in Healthcare :- Prescription audits are essential for maintaining high standards of patient care, ensuring the appropriate use of medications, reducing healthcare costs, and minimizing risks associated with medication errors. These audits play a vital role in continuous quality improvement within healthcare settings. A prescription audit is a thorough, systematic process designed to assess whether medical prescriptions align with established standards of care, guidelines, and regulations. The primary goals of these audits include:- - Improve the quality of prescribing practices. - Ensure patient safety. - Promote the rational use of medications. - Reduce the cost of the treatment. Regular prescription audits not only enhance the quality of care but also contribute to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare systems. By prioritizing these audits, healthcare organizations can better safeguard patient health and optimize resource utilization. Source : https://lnkd.in/gSN4di8H

Several things can be done to improve the effectiveness of quality measurement...   For one, we need to create more alignment across payers. Very busy delivery systems and provider organizations shouldn’t be asked to report measures in 10 different ways. Across organizations the same concept should be measured in the same way, based on the evidence that’s available to us. By aligning quality measures, we can reduce confusion and enhance improvement capability.   We also need to focus increasingly on outcome measures. We have a lot of process measures in the quality measurement mix. The more we focus on outcome measures, as well as outcome measures that patients understand and patients report, the better off we are going to be.   Thirdly, to reduce the burden of measurement, we need to shift from what today is essentially a very difficult, manual process of reporting towards what CMS is prioritizing, which are electronic clinical quality measurements. eCQMs, which draw information from EHRs, enable more accurate assessment of outcomes and reduce that burden of manual abstraction and reporting.   A handful of these changes would improve the efficiency of the quality measurement enterprise, would reduce redundancy across it, and would further improve the value dividend that quality measurement can offer. As Modern Healthcare noted in the article below, it’s my hope that we don’t eliminate or try to reduce quality measurement to the point at which it is meaningless, but rather that we take steps like these to make quality measurement even more effective, more efficient, and more useful.   #qualitymeasurement #patientsafety #ptsafety

Attention DPC providers! One of the most rewarding aspects of direct primary care is the personal relationship you form with your patients. You’re there to guide them through medical decisions and offer individualized care. But what about the financial side of the equation? With the increasing availability of hospital pricing data, patients are asking more questions about costs, and DPC physicians need to be prepared with answers. SumHealth's pricing transparency search platform is built to solve this problem. By transforming complicated and unreadable swathes of pricing transparency data files that are all publicly available, into an easy-to-use platform, we’re giving DPC providers a critical tool to enhance patient education. Our platform enables you to show patients clear, cash-based price comparisons between your practice and local hospitals. Imagine being able to sit down with a patient and not only discuss their treatment plan but also how much they’ll save by sticking with your practice for any anticipated healthcare needs. Informed patients make better decisions. Our solution helps you turn pricing transparency data into actionable insights, empowering both you and your patients to navigate the complex healthcare pricing landscape with ease. In today’s world, transparency has become an expectation. Let us help you make it a cornerstone of your practice. Start searching today instantly FOR FREE at www.sumhealth.org/. For $99/month, have access to a wide set of customized integrated tools, including pathways, and wider payer datasets to enrich your practice's healthcare pricing transparency ability and business models. #Directprimarycare #healthcare #doctors #medicare #medicaid #pricingtransparency #hospitals

Become a leader in healthcare by adopting CMS Hospital PRICE Transparency early. Understand why early adopters are setting the standard and how your organization can gain a competitive edge through proactive transparency initiatives. Check out how to gain a competitive edge with transparency. https://loom.ly/niSFkrI #HealthcareSavings #PriceTransparency #PatientEmpowerment #HealthcareLeaders #HospitalCompliance #ValueBasedCare

It is time for each of us to understand we all bring value to our patients. Worrying about "scope creep" and claiming the sky is falling in relation to high qaulity care, is an insult to the thousands of patients who are unable to access basic care because of the shortage of providers. This shortage is going to expand even further in the coming years. This stance is not based in fact but fear. Fear that the patients and pay will dry up, I have some realism here for you, it won't! Not by a long shot. What we will have is unneeded emergency room visits, a reduction in quality of life and deaths. We can do better, friends and we MUST! #healthequity #scopecreepisamyth #collaborate #highqualitycare #access #dotherightthing #wealladdvalue #patientcenteredcareFIRST

In the pursuit of value-based care, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are a strategy in healthcare where providers work together to offer coordinated care. Typically involving some financial risk, establishing an ACO requires the right mindset and capabilities among providers. In order to be a successful ACO, providers should align their goals, understand each others' missions, and integrate workflows effectively. It's important to consider patient experiences throughout the care continuum, addressing preventive services, social determinants of health, and medication adherence. Providers considering participating in an ACO need robust resources, including care management platforms, electronic medical records, and financial assessments for downside risk. While the transition to value-based care is inevitable, providers can start preparing now to develop the necessary capabilities. 💡 At Priority Practice Management, we can help relieve the administrative load weighing down your practice so you can focus on patient care. Contact us to get started: https://lnkd.in/gpYmTyzz #AccountableCareOrganization #ValueBasedCare #PracticeManagement 📖 Article Link: https://lnkd.in/gFPSbqPJ

  According to a 2022 US Dept. of Health and Human Services report, 25% of Medicare patients were harmed during hospital stays in October 2018, and 43% of those were preventable. "Serious Reportable Events (SRE)s" , defined by the National Quality Forum (affiliated with the Joint Commission), are harmful clinical events that are “serious, unambiguous, and largely preventable”. “Never Events” are the most egregious clinical events that should never occur in healthcare. The SRE list is used by national and state-based event reporting systems to increase accountability and improve patient safety. However, only 28 states and the District of Columbia use the SRE list.   There needs to be comprehensive and accurate data to track patient harm events  so that the root causes ( most often systemic failures) are identified and addressed in all states in all healthcare settings, including home care, ambulatory care, and telehealth.     Focus on HARM ( Harmonizing Accountability in Reporting and Monitoring ) is an initiative launched in April of this year by the National Quality Forum to enable systematic measurement and tracking of these events. The goal is to modernize the criteria for what constitutes an SRE and align standards for reporting such events across different accountability systems.   Hopefully, the enactment of this initiative will  bring a meaningful improvement in patient safety, everywhere.

Amid spikes in utilization and rising medical costs, payers are turning to specialty value-based care partners. In this article, learn how value-based care is transforming specialty medicine to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs. #OWHealth

Amid spikes in utilization and rising medical costs, payers are turning to specialty value-based care partners. In this article, learn how value-based care is transforming specialty medicine to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs. #OWHealth