Patients who are discharged after vascular surgeries to treat a wide range of ailments involving heart and blood flow issues are far more likely to be readmitted to the hospital for a preventable ...

Bethsaida Hospital Serang has been recently validated at Stage 6 of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM). During its validation, the hospital demonstrated its accelerated patient ...

Every day, millions of people are discharged after extended hospital stays, but matching these patients with appropriate care facilities can be arduous, often reliant on months-old, inaccurate data.

“I didn’t know what to do, so I came back,” said my in-the-dark patient. He was calling me from the emergency department (ED), 5 days after I had discharged him from the hospital for an abdominal ...

The Pennsylvania health system has eliminated redundant processes and reduced the time and number of people involved in a discharge while boosting patient satisfaction scores. Patient discharge can be ...

Health First is a nonprofit, Central Florida health system consisting of more than 900 beds across four hospitals, with the only Level II trauma center in the county. Streamlining and automating the ...

Integrating an elderly patient’s informal caregivers — family members, friends, partners, neighbors and other loved ones — into the discharge process may potentially reduce the patient’s likelihood of ...

Patients who have had vascular surgeries are often readmitted to the hospital for a variety of reasons — often preventable — more often than patients who undergo different types of surgeries. These ...

The hospital discharge summary—a document that outlines a patient's hospital stay for their outpatient providers—can take up ...

Approximately 1,200 patients are spending unnecessary time in Massachusetts hospitals while waiting for discharge to other facilities, according to a new report from the Massachusetts Health & ...

Healthcare: try to name a sector in which the importance of process excellence is higher. You’ll struggle. Every decision, every action, every allocation of personnel or resources has a direct impact ...