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readmissions
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Interactive tools, new apps being used to improve health care #ahcj13
Using technology in health care to interact with people certainly opens up new avenues of communication and yields more data…
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Hospitals struggle to find ways to reduce avoidable readmissions #ahcj13
About one in five Medicare patients hospitalized for heart attacks, heart failure or pneumonia will be back in the hospital…
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Project addresses readmission concerns by focusing on the frail
A new project is addressing the special concerns of frail elderly hospital patients in an attempt to help prevent lengthy…
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Health care watchdog agency provides ideas for stories in coming year
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has unveiled its FY 2013 OIG Work Plan , a blueprint for the…
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Rau explains using data to write about hospital readmissions
Many health policy experts believe that hospital readmissions are symptomatic of the broad dysfunction of the health care system in…