Faced with broad and profound changes in the delivery of healthcare—including declining reimbursements and new mandates to deliver value-based, personalized, and evidence-based medicine—healthcare is benefiting from the growing contributions of medical physicists.
The agreement would guarantee payment of "cost-sharing reduction" subsidies for low-income policy holders. It would also restore $110 million in "outreach funding" cut by the Trump administration last week.
By integrating new communication technology with existing systems, achieving better patient satisfaction, patient safety, staff satisfaction, and operational efficiency is a real possibility.
Communication issues are receiving increased scrutiny from patients and the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) - and your hospital could lose money if fined or sued based on such issues.
Patient matching can be complicated by the presence of duplicate medical records and incorrectly merged medical records. These mismatched records can have serious consequences such as inappropriate patient care and costlier patient care.
Upcoming Webinar: Making drugs is risky business, even when it’s done in hospital pharmacies. From the person carrying the chemicals from the loading bay to the person doing the actual mixing, improper exposure to hazardous medication compounding substances can have lasting and devastating health effects.
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