As a senior healthcare executive managing a skilled team, you know how to keep your organization running smoothly.
But who do you turn to when you face obstacles to long-term growth? If you're looking to drive innovation and transform your operations from the ground up, you need deep expertise in digitization.
Download this guide to find knowledge and toolsets from experts to aid in digital transformation.
Advancing Hospital Medicine’s Response to the Opioid Crisis
Sponsored by
Elsevier
October 10, 2023
Bridging knowledge gaps, the Society of Hospital Medicine and Elsevier unite to promote current evidence-based treatments for those hospitalized with opioid use disorder.
The opioid crisis places immense pressure on hospitals, with over 2 million individuals affected by opioid use disorders (OUD) in the United States, as reported by the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM). Hospitalists and hospital-based clinicians are on the frontline of this epidemic, requiring the latest evidence-based approaches for managing OUD. It’s equally vital to equip hospitalists with patient-centered strategies for initiating conversations about the benefits of beginning treatment while in the hospital and how to access the needed treatment and psychosocial support after leaving the hospital.
Responding to this urgent need, SHM, supported by an Elsevier grant, has developed materials to navigate care for hospitalized patients with OUD. These educational resources include an in-depth primer on OUD treatment and a discussion guide that provides simulated patient cases, recommendations for how to talk to patients, and guidance on care transitions.
Download the whitepaper to learn more about the future of opioid treatment.
The RCM Maturity Framework: A 4-Stage Journey to Digital Transformation and Operational Excellence
Sponsored by
AGS Health
October 2, 2023
As a leader in healthcare leader, you understand the importance of optimizing your revenue cycle management (RCM) operations and maximizing revenue. However, with mounting financial pressures, labor shortages, and growing demands for efficiency, it can be challenging to know where to start.
In this guide, "The RCM Maturity Framework: A 4-Stage Journey to Digital Transformation and Operational Excellence," AGS Health offers a strategic roadmap to help you navigate your unique journey toward operational maturity and enhanced revenue cycle performance. Take your revenue cycle operations to the next level with this established framework and insights from some of the nation's foremost healthcare organizations.
Gain key insights into:
A framework outlining four stages of RCM maturity: emerging, foundational, advanced, and high performing.
Leveraging the framework to determine the maturity of your organization across three key pillars: service delivery, technology and interoperability, and analytics.
How to benchmark your current level of maturity compared to industry best practices of high-performing organizations.
Creating a customized roadmap to navigate your journey and accelerate the maturation process to enhance revenue cycle performance.
Nursing Home Case Study: Increasing Reimbursements
Sponsored by
IntelyCare
September 27, 2023
This case study showcases elevating clinical documentation and enhancing reimbursements for an Ohio skilled nursing facility. Facing documentation issues with Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs), the facility experienced a rise in "Do Not Returns" (DNRs), a problem pervasive among both full-time and agency staff.
The study reveals the core issue within the facility's data management system – glitches that led CNAs to miss crucial care documentation. Further investigation unearthed log-in problems, causing undocumented downtimes, and issues with assignment changes.
While CNA documentation doesn't directly determine reimbursement, it significantly impacts it.
Accurate documentation informs care levels and subsequent reimbursement. CNAs document Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and patient abilities, driving further assessments by the care team. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) strictly adhere to reimbursement rules, emphasizing documentation's billing importance.
Through collaboration, various systemic improvements were implemented that provided:
A 57% reduction in documentation related DNRs
Enhanced messaging capabilities, reminders, and training modules to prioritize documentation for nurses.
Efficient incident resolution, investigation, and prevention while helping to improve documentation and drive reimbursements for its partner facilities.
How to Use Analytics to Succeed Under Value-Based Care: A Strategic Guide
Sponsored by
MedeAnalytics
September 26, 2023
Post-pandemic pressures and pain points, including clinician burnout and massive health inequities, have accelerated the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care.
Despite the ultimate benefits, moving to a value-driven system can be challenging for healthcare organizations, so we've built a strategic guide to help payers and providers along the way.
In this ebook, you'll learn the top 5 ways to leverage analytics for a successful journey to value-based care.
Achieve Value, Efficiency, and Scale With Evidence-Based Clinical Content
Sponsored by
Wolters Kluwer
September 21, 2023
Payers are working to design, implement, and support benefits that meet business goals and make employer groups, providers, customers, and members happy. Doing so amid rapid changes like Artificial Intelligence, rising health costs, precision medicine, and new clinical information can make these efforts complex and arduous.
Teams with harmonized, evidence-based clinical information scaled across a complex matrixed organization are in a position to improve business processes, save costs, and improve their members’ experience and outcomes. Learn how access to UpToDate clinical decision support can support payers with the latest evidence-based information.