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Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine is deploying artificial intelligence to predict length of stay and streamline discharge workflows, which is freeing up inpatient beds and easing administrative workload ...

On September 26, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new Final Rule, Revisions to Discharge Planning Requirements (CMS-3317-F) in a bid to “improve engagement, choice ...

In a long anticipated regulation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently updated the hospital, critical access hospital (CAH) and home health agency (HHA) conditions of ...

Have you ever attended a discharge planning meeting, either as a patient or family caregiver? In this day and age, every healthcare consumer should know what these are. Discharge planning meetings are ...

Can artificial intelligence improve discharge planning? Has AI finally found a role in day-to-day healthcare? The answer is a tentative maybe. "Timely patient discharge requires a coordinated effort ...

The Trump administration issued a long-awaited final rule on how hospitals must handle discharge planning, introducing new requirements on records access. The rule released on Thursday by the Centers ...

But many organizations are falling short even though they have spent so much time running performance improvement projects and customizing their EHR. During a March webinar hosted by Becker’s Hospital ...

Mismatches between standard discharge and expert recommendations are linked to worse functional outcomes and higher 3-month ...

We all know that discharge planning is not a one-and-done checkbox. It’s an evolving process and one that is layered, collaborative and essential to getting it right for the individuals we serve.

A multi-disciplinary program implemented two years ago in an Ontario hospital allows patients to be discharged from an ambulatory hospital two days after hip or knee replacement surgery, according to ...

Discharge planning is a process that should begin as soon as patients are admitted to the hospital. In a perfect world, healthcare team members, patients, and families communicate and work together to ...