What You Should Know: - Brigham is working with Biofourmis on a national rollout of their co-developed technology solution, which has been refined and scaled for use by other healthcare systems across the country seeking to establish and execute similar home hospital programs to alleviate COVID-related capacity issues and to receive 1:1 parity on payments from CMS. - The Hospital@HomeTM platform provides a turnkey, end-to-end ecosystem for any health system that wants to quickly launch
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DRGs
Nuance Expands AI-Powered Clinical Guidance for Dragon Medical Advisor
- Nuance Communications has expanded Clinical Guidance for Dragon Medical Advisor (DMA), an AI-powered documentation service accessible through Dragon Medical One, a voice assistant tool trusted by more than 500,000 clinicians worldwide and 90 percent of U.S. hospitals.- This expansion addresses the causes of burnout head-on by saving time and alleviating the administrative burden placed on physicians. - DMA enables doctors to focus on what they do best – care for patients – rather than fill out
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ChartWise Launches Risk Adjustment Factor Calculator to Help Hospitals Maintain Accurate Patient Risk Profile
ChartWise Medical Systems, a provider of computer-assisted clinical documentation improvement (CACDI) has announced the launch of its new Risk Adjustment Factor (RAF) Calculator which puts hospitals and medical centers in the best possible position to assess and maintain an accurate patient risk profile.For CACDI, the better a hospital or medical center can document HCCs, the higher the possible RAF scores and the higher the reimbursement. While similar to Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs), RAF
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Importance of Healthcare Providers Improving Their CDI Program
Guest post from Alice Zentner, Director of Auditing and Education for TrustHCS: Many providers have CDI programs. The belief is that more accurate, detailed clinical documentation is better for the patient, the institution, the government, researchers, and all aspects of quality of care. So why not have an improvement program for the improvement program?
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