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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With Medicare no longer reimbursing hospitals for certain preventable readmissions within 30 days of discharge, the onus now is on providers to improve transitions from acute to ambulatory and home ...

On June 6, 2023, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provided a Quality Safety & Oversight (QSO) memorandum outlining CMS-identified concerns with respect to the patient discharge ...

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 ...

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ninety-five percent of hospitals surveyed expressed concerns about communication inefficiencies during the patient discharge process, according to a new report ...