A new study of 15,738 nurses and 5,312 physicians conducted by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Health Forum suggests that physicians and nurses practicing in United...Read More »
Q: I have a question about provider education and query escalations in a remote world. What is your provider education process? Are your frontline CDI staff facilitating regular provider education or do you have a designated CDI physician educator or team of CDI that facilitate on a...Read More »
Q: We are looking for ways to have our CDI and utilization management (UM)/utilization review (UR) teams work more closely and possibly cross-train the team members. Does anyone currently work closely with the utilization management department or have cross-trained employees? Does...Read More »
The “Saving Limbs, Saving Lives” (SL2) project, recently announced by the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA), aims to reduce the number of leg amputations in the United States through providing access to a number of digital health tools....Read More »
In March of this year, the median year-to-date operating margin index for hospitals was flat, though it did show a small improvement from February, according to data released by Kaufman Hall...Read More »
Leaders in human resources (HR) and chief nursing officers (CNO) view quality of care, the safety of patients, and employee retention as the most critical issues facing hospitals, according to...Read More »