Successful Patient Centered Centered Medical Homes
What are the essential components that make for a successful patient-centered medical home as determined by those working with these models in the field?
Using Predictive Analytics to Identify and Treat Patients Before They Get Sick
Predictive analytics or the ability to anticipate clinical issues before they become major and result in unnecessary readmissions will be an essential part of the population health infrastructure. Learn how the University of Mississippi is utilizing predictive analytics to reduce both morbidity and mortality with acute myocardial infarction.
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act
Learn how the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) will hasten the demise of fee for service in a new blog by Dr. Jon Burroughs published by Hospital Impact
“Redesign the Medical Staff” Wins James A Hamilton Award
Redesign the Medical Staff Model: A Guide to Collaborative Change has been chosen the winner of the James A Hamilton award for healthcare book of the year, by Dr. Jonathan Burroughs.
The Ten Traits of a Great Healthcare Organization
Check out Dr. Jonathan Burroughs’ latest January 21, 2016 blog for Hospital Impact entitled, “The Ten Traits of a Great Healthcare Organization” in which he summarizes the key characteristics of high performing organizations, large and small, academic and non-academic that distinguishes them for the rest of the healthcare field.
5 steps to staging and integrating a population health program
Dr. Jonathan Burroughs explains how to stage and integrate a population health program as your organization moves from fee for service to alternative reimbursement methodologies under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).
The Supreme Court and the ACA contraception mandate: Déjà vu all over again
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s minority opinion in the 2014 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case was prescient. She predicted that the majority opinion–favoring the right of closely held corporations (a corporation in which five or fewer shareholders own more than 50 percent equity of the organization) to opt out of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s mandate to provide birth control coverage to employees on the basis of religious objection–would be a slippery slope.
ICD-10: Collaborative Ways to Reduce Operating Costs
With the introduction of ICD-10 on Oct. 1, there are now 132,500 new codes and new ways for healthcare organizations to be paid less based upon inadequate documentation or, worse, documentation that does not support the services rendered.
ICD-10 : What to do, and What Not to Do
The ICD-10 code set for reporting diagnoses and procedures to payers consists of 132,500 codes compared with 16,800 in ICD-9 set.
Strategies for Managing Alarm Fatigue on the Floor
Alarm fatigue has moved to the forefront of hazards on the hospital floor. Dr, Jonathan Burroughs offers strategies to manage alarm fatigue.