By Sarianne Gruber – The Excess Factor and Penalty Impasse – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act created the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program and required CMS to penalize IPPS hospitals with high readmission rates.
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By Sarianne Gruber – What process is used to communicate the medication a patient should be taking? How do you verify that they understand the instructions? Can a healthcare professional provide the most effective communication when educating the Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) patient on medication?
Let’s start with a phenomenon known to statisticians called Simpson’s Paradox. In outcomes research, we are aggregating data from multiple sources (e.g., clinical, financial, workflow) and at the same time stratifying the data to achieve homogeneity. And there are times we get surprises.
By Sarianne Gruber – Kudos to HealthIMPACT for orchestrating a conference of exceptional Health IT leaders from across the country to shared their experiences and views in building a better and more robust healthcare system.
Reducing readmission is moving beyond the clinical metrics and starting to focus on health insurance coverage and patients’ health behaviors prior to hospitalization.
By Sarianne Gruber – With third party fee schedules diminishing, health providers face the pressure of an economy that is making it very difficult to collect fees and very important to identify charges for every legitimate service.
By Sarianne Gruber – Without interoperability of health technologies, a comprehensive exchange of health data does not exist. Yet, at the New York State Health Department meeting on December 11, 2014, state government officials, clinicians, executives and media gathered at NYU Langone Medical Center for a news breaking session…