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By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Amazon has launched a virtual care clinic as a pilot for its Seattle employees called Amazon Care, including in-person followup doctor visits at an employee’s home or office, along with at-home prescription drug delivery. The e-commerce giant’s virtual offering includes an in-app telemedicine visit with a doctor,…
By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review In fiscal year 2020, CMS will penalize 2,583 hospitals for having too many Medicare patients readmitted within 30 days, according to federal data released Sept. 30 cited in a Kaiser Health News report. This is the eighth year of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. To determine penalties for…
By Melissa Malamut for NY Post When Danielle Brooks, 23, was diagnosed with narcolepsy at age 15, her peers taunted her with the nickname Bobblehead — how she looked nodding off. But since receiving her service dog, Rollo, in 2014, she can hold her head high. “He wakes me up to take my medication,” Brooks,…
By Andrea Park for Becker’s Hospital Review Though artificial intelligence algorithms require as much objective patient data as possible to be effective tools for healthcare delivery, it is equally important that they are trained on anecdotal patient evidence, according to Blake McKinney, MD. In an op-ed for STAT, Dr. McKinney, an emergency medicine physician and…
By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance Emergency department residents do what all physicians do: They document patient encounters into an electronic health record. But the information they’re entering may not be all that accurate. A study published in JAMA Network Open tasked 12 observers with following nine physician residents as they documented patient encounters into…
By Laura Dyrda for Becker’s Hospital Review Becker’s Hospital Review compiled 40 large health systems by number of hospitals and 60 large hospitals by bed count. This list was developed based on information as of July 2019. Largest Health Systems HCA Healthcare (Nashville, Tenn.): 185 hospitals. HCA Healthcare has more than 38,000 active physicians and…
By Mike Miliard for Healthcare IT News SANTA CLARA – At Health 2.0 on Monday, National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Don Rucker listed a litany of challenges faced daily by physicians and nurses, and contributing to the ongoing scourge of clinician burnout: onerous documentation requirements, boilerplate electronic health records and the “monster burdens” of…
By Jacqueline Thelian, CPC, CPC-I, CHCA, CPMA for For the Record Many health care organizations can relate to the following scenario: An insurance carrier, Medicare, or a Medicaid HMO requests medical records for the purpose of an audit. The provider believes it has forwarded all the necessary supporting documentation, but the results indicate a 90%…
By Bruce Japsen for Forbes Walmart is opening its first 10,000 square-foot “Walmart Health” center that features an array of primary medical services, dental care, and behavioral health services as part of a new model expected to eventually be replicated in other markets. The first such “Walmart Health” brand center opened Friday in Dallas, Georgia,…
By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review To alleviate EHR-induced burnout, clinicians should allot time when not seeing patients to learn system efficiencies to “tame the electronic beast,” according to family medicine physician R. Zorba Paster, MD, of SSM Health Dean Medical Group in Madison, Wis. In an op-ed column for the Wisconsin State Journal, Dr.…