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Zulfiqar Rana, MD, MPH, FACP
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COVID 19 Telemedicine
Posted by on March 22, 2020
This post is for providers interested in telemedicine, especially in Alabama. Read more of this post
PatientKeeper on ACO draft
Posted by on June 20, 2011
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
Posted by on June 8, 2011
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/
