Zulfiqar Rana, MD, MPH, FACP
Board Certified in Internal Medicine
Category Archives: Uncategorized
COVID 19 Telemedicine
March 22, 2020
Posted by on This post is for providers interested in telemedicine, especially in Alabama. Read more of this post
PatientKeeper on ACO draft
June 20, 2011
Posted by on PatientKeeper CEO Paul Brient comments on the ACO draft regulations and discusses the interaction between ACO activities and Meaningful Use requirements for health information technology…
http://www.patientkeeper.com/news_events/newsitem.html?id=415
Hospitals to patients: Go away and don’t come back soon
June 8, 2011
Posted by on The Wall Street Journal has a good summary of the situation in Don’t Come Back, Hospitals Say. Among the programs featured:
- An animated “virtual discharge advocate” named Louise who helps explain home care to departing patients
- Transition coaches who call patients 2 or 3 days after discharge
- Project RED (for Re-Engineered Discharge), which provides individualized instruction starting well before the patient leaves the hospital
Early results suggest these approaches can reduce readmissions by 20 to 30 percent, which is a shockingly high figure considering how basic such steps are…
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HealthBusinessBlog/~3/OY7mg_8jepE/
The Weekend Effect
June 8, 2011
Posted by on These physicians, who treat patients outside the emergency room, are seeking to reverse the “weekend effect,” or higher rates of death and complications.
http://feeds.kaiserhealthnews.org/~r/khn/~3/IH_NyyyY59M/nocturnist.aspx