An effective hospital discharge process created by Cleveland Clinic is pivotal in the handoff of patients to postacute-care providers. Hospital discharge is a complex process involving the primary ...

The insurer-hospitals’ meeting on October 9 put discharge delays under the spotlight. Can hospitals and insurers finally move ...

If she’s especially efficient, Hospitalist Gigi Liu, MD, can complete a discharge summary in 20 minutes for a patient she treated for a few days at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. But ...

Electronic health record (EHR) adoption was driven, in part, by a recognition of the power of data. Given the complexities of healthcare ...

Hospitals’ shortcomings in providing post-acute care providers with adequate discharge information prompted federal regulators to issue a special memo Tuesday. Nursing homes and home health providers ...

Frequent delays in insurance claim approvals at the time of hospital discharge have become a major source of frustration for ...

Medsphere Systems Corporation and Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Conn., introduced discharge summary software on Medsphere’s OpenVista EHR system designed specifically for behavioral health ...

A carefully crafted hospital discharge plan, shared with outpatient doctors, is essential to help your patients finish their recovery after they leave. Hopefully, it will prevent them from coming back ...

The most recent study by the Institute of Medicine of the reliability of hospital discharge data abstracted from patients' medical records documents the continuing presence of a substantial level of ...

Due to the COVID-19 health crisis, many nursing homes are seeing increased requests from residents and family for therapeutic leaves and resident-initiated discharges. This is a refresher on the ...

Revolutionary AI assistant RISA eliminates the pain of hunting for patient data across multiple systems, enabling clinicians to focus more on patient ...