American Medical Compliance

MARCH 21, 2025

American Medical Compliance is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians. Effective communication is critical to patient safety and has been shown to improve health outcomes and increase patient trust and engagement.

Communication

Nursing Review

JULY 21, 2025

Digging into the data The BJOG paper examined the outcomes for 368,292 births selected out of a bigger data set of 867,334 women who gave birth in NSW, Queensland and Victoria between January 2016 and December 2019. These complexities are much more prevalent in the public system and impact on health outcomes.

Pharmaceutical

Daily Nurse

AUGUST 7, 2023

“For example, an analysis by McKinsey & Co found that telehealth accounted for less than 1% of Medicare services before the onset of the pandemic, but by July of 2021, telehealth services accounted for about 13-17% of claims submitted to Medicare.

APRN

Relias

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Key sources of IHS funding The IHS is primarily funded by federal appropriations, along with grants, Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements, and third-party billing. These funds help sustain essential healthcare services, maintain facilities, and enhance public health initiatives in tribal communities.

Medicaid

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Ferrara is passionate about health information technology and integrating evidence-based practice into daily nursing practice. His doctoral work examined the impact of group medical visits for patients with Type 2 diabetes and whether this intervention led to better health outcomes. It was inspiring to me. So it’s been great.

Nurse Practitioner

Consult QD

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This evidence suggests that hearing needs to be a health priority and intervention is necessary to improve other health outcomes.” We’re doing a lot of work to explore the best ways to help our primary care partners make hearing a priority and this includes educating them about these results,” she says.

Medicare

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Medicare, Medicaid, and many private insurers require the use of the National Provider Identifier (NPI) which is administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). NPIs are unique identifiers used by providers to bill Medicare and Medicaid for services they provide. Why should I obtain an NPI?

Medicare

American Nurse

JUNE 13, 2024

Medicare, Medicaid, and many private insurers require the use of the National Provider Identifier (NPI) which is administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). NPIs are unique identifiers used by providers to bill Medicare and Medicaid for services they provide. Why should I obtain an NPI?

Medicare

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

According to Ross, the 21st Century Cures Act , enacted by Congress in 2016, impacts many aspects of American healthcare, including mandating that patients access electronic health information (EHI). “This compliance enhances trust and supports better health outcomes by ensuring that critical health information is readily available.”

Care coordination

Capitol Beat

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

While not a new issue, we are seeing renewed focus on identifying and overcoming barriers that are leading to health inequities—especially with the COVID-19 pandemic magnifying underlying and persisting inequities. Educating nurses on how to reduce health disparities resulting from the pandemic was an area of focus for ANA.

Medicare

Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

Healthcare organizations receive scores from the HCAHPS survey , which according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is “the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients’ perspectives of hospital care.” Does patient satisfaction equal better health outcomes?

Patient Satisfaction

Capitol Beat

MARCH 15, 2022

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners Program – The bill includes $13 million, an increase of $4 million within the total for Advanced Education Nursing to expand training and certification of RNs, APRNs, and Forensic Nurses to practice as sexual assault nurse examiners. Agencies Health and Human Services : $108.3 billion, an increase of $1.4

Medicare

American Nurse

MARCH 6, 2024

They then provided telephonic education to those patients about polypharmacy, the benefits of a pharmacist-led medication review, and the AWC web application. Improve care, promote the profession Nurses play a key role in patient education, medication management, and prevention of negative health outcomes. 2020;368:m865.doi:10.1136/bmj.m865

Telemedicine

The Nurse Break

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Kate’s advocacy for nursing and midwifery as well as consumers has been crafted through roles which include her current position as the Chief Nursing and Midwifery Informatics Officer at Western Health and as a Clinical Reference Lead at the Australian Digital Health Agency.

Pharmaceutical

Relias

APRIL 18, 2025

Its a crucial component of patient satisfaction and can significantly influence health outcomes. Don Berwick, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services This quote encapsulates the essence of patient-centered care. Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it.

Patient Experience

American Nurse

MAY 8, 2023

Takeaways: To help patients and their families make informed decisions about choosing health care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publicly reports quality performance measures. In addition to informing patients, public reporting can drive providers to improve performance.

Medicare

Health Leaders | Nursing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

of full-time NPs seeing Medicare patients and 82% seeing Medicaid patients. NPs are well positioned for primary care roles because of their education and training, says Reisinger, who has helped obtain an advanced educational nursing workforce grant centered on educating nurse practitioners for rural practice.

Medicare

Relias

JANUARY 23, 2023

However, the results also suggested that most respondents also said they could use more education. My colleagues and I work to help improve maternal health outcomes by providing the best education and competency evaluation solutions for the healthcare workforce. on referrals for behavioral health care.

Mental Health

Amercan Journal of Nursing

OCTOBER 19, 2023

On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities. Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursing homes.

Long Term Care

American Nurse

JUNE 13, 2024

These were: Individual determinants Education Experience Nurses’ value Impact of role models Factors influencing individual determinants were age, gender, religion, satisfaction with the nursing major, personal values, and use of coping strategies. The essentials: Core competencies for professional nursing education. link] Dall, T.

Health Outcomes

Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), care coordination is “the deliberate organization of patient care activities between two or more participants (including the patient) involved in a patient’s care to facilitate the appropriate delivery of health care services.”

Care coordination

American Nurse

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Frailty frequently is defined as an aging-related syndrome of physiological decline, characterized by marked vulnerabilities to adverse health outcomes. As we age, our bodies become more subject to frailty, illness, weakness, and morbidity.

Long Term Care

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Health rankings demonstrate SC has the 4th highest rate of preterm births among all 50 U.S. 1,5 To date, 27 states, Washington DC and the Veterans Administration have full practice authority for APRNs which authorizes NPs, CNMs and CNSs to practice “to the fullest extent of their education” as recommended by the Institute of Medicine.

APRN

Relias

JULY 14, 2023

In some cases, mothers living just a few miles away from each other can have vastly different health outcomes due to variables such as income, education, race, and access to care. and nearly every other country has increased substantially since the WHO began tracking data on maternal health outcomes.

Mental Health

Relias

JULY 20, 2023

­The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule in August 2022 to improve maternal health outcomes and advance health equity — two of the Biden-Harris Administration’s key priorities. Both clinical and behavioral factors contribute to maternal health outcomes. Sadly, U.S.

Medicaid