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It's time to take that next step in your professional journey by becoming a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Here's a free webinar on the how and why. You got this!

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🚀 Transform Your Hospital with the CDI MasterClass! 🚀 Are you ready to elevate your hospital's Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) practices? Join the ultimate resource for adult acute inpatient care teams, including physicians, CDI specialists, coders, and all stakeholders! ☀️ What We Offer: Unlock a year-long subscription to 50 engaging 30-minute on-demand webinars, rolled out every week! These sessions are designed to ensure that all team members are on the same page while revolutionizing your approach to CDI. Regardless of your shift, take a moment to enhance your skills and knowledge -- just log in and learn at your convenience throughout the contract year! 🏥 Why Choose the CDI MasterClass? The CDI MasterClass program is tailored not only for CDI specialists but also for all stakeholders involved in the process, including medical staff, coders, the CDI team, quality assurance, utlization/case management, appeals/denials management, risk management and compliance. The success of a CDI program relies on collaboration and cohesive efforts among all these groups, as operating in silos rarely leads to effective outcomes. Our comprehensive curriculum empowers your teams to adopt a proactive approach to CDI, leading to: - Improved patient care - Optimized coding accuracy - Enhanced net financial outcomes for your organization 👌🏽 Don’t Miss This Opportunity! Transform your hospital's operations and elevate your CDI practices. Encourage your hospital or health system to sign up today! The path to financial success lies in effective and resilient revenue optimization.  How can you achieve revenue optimization? By accurately capturing the patient's story through concise documentation and precise coding. The key is to enhance revenue with integrity while reducing denials through authentic storytelling. A proactive approach is essential to mitigating risks associated with malpractice and payment denials. ℹ️ Ready to Learn More? For more information about our CDI MasterClass program and to receive a copy of the curriculum principles, email us at [email protected]. Take the first step towards a successful and cohesive CDI strategy! Join us today and make a lasting impact on your healthcare team’s performance! AHIMA American College of Physician Advisors (ACPA) American Medical Association American Hospital Association Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) American College of Healthcare Executives

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3 Key Takeaways from Dr. Debbie Conner, PhD, MSN, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, Holistic Health Advocate and Academic Leader 1️⃣ NPs as Holistic Health Leaders Dr. Conner emphasizes that nurse practitioners are uniquely positioned to champion holistic health by coaching patients toward wellness, focusing on lifestyle and behavioral modifications before pharmacological interventions. Instead of reaching for statins as a first-line treatment, NPs can empower patients with strategies like dietary changes, stress management, and supplementation to support natural healing. Her perspective aligns deeply with my own journey—particularly my work piloting a multisensory stimulation project at the VA that reduced restraints and transformed care for veterans. 2️⃣ The Future of Integrative Health Education As the new Associate Dean for Advanced and Specialty Nursing at Pacific College of Health and Science, Dr. Conner is leading programs that reflect a commitment to holistic and integrative care, including the Holistic Nurse Certificate. She sees tremendous potential in expanding these offerings to include more accessible pathways for RNs to adopt these modalities in their practice. These programs underscore a critical shift in healthcare: focusing on building health rather than just treating disease. 3️⃣ A Call to Action: Enhancing the NP Pipeline Dr. Conner and I share a concern for the challenges in the NP education pipeline, from insufficient preceptors to unethical practices that compromise clinical training. Her advocacy for integrity in clinical placements and her leadership in creating innovative, high-quality programs remind us of the importance of staying vigilant in protecting the future of our profession. This is an inspiration to our teams NPHub and NPHire. Dr. Conner's work inspires me to continue championing holistic approaches and supporting NP students in achieving their potential. Let's celebrate the leaders shaping the future of nursing! 👏 What resonates most with you about Dr. Conner's vision for holistic health? #NursingLeadership #HolisticHealth #NursePractitioners #IntegrativeCare #InnovationInNursing

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It's #NationalHospitalWeek which provides an opportunity to highlight the innovative ways that hospitals and health systems are supporting their communities. Take it from me, many pioneering and cutting edge hospitals are deploying geographic information systems (#GIS) in myriad ways to manage population health, understand accessibility issues, examine inequitable outcomes, improve the use of their brick and mortar facilities, and streamline their planning and operations. My paper shares several example use cases that are making hospitals stronger and communities more resilient. https://lnkd.in/euQ2xAha #HealthGIS #Hospitals #HealthSystems #DigitalTransformation

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"A one-year analysis of 21 Kaiser Permanente Northern California Oncology practices presented at the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting found that each of its oncologists respond to an average of 19 secure patient-physician portal messages per day, including weekends (Abstract 1503). The unseen value of these messages was estimated to be more than $11 million, including roughly $3.8 million in avoided out-of-pocket patent copayment costs and $7.7 million in missed billing. Major cancer centers are increasingly billing for some nonurgent patient portal messages, including Johns Hopkins Medicine, Michigan Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. In addressing the ethics of billing, Dr. Nazha said that health systems need to create an approach that, “1) is efficient and equitable, 2) ensures patients receive valuable and timely access to medical services, and 3) protects the well-being of healthcare providers.”" https://lnkd.in/eYgsKy_x

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Congratulations to Rhafia Bucoy, DBA, MSN, RN, RN-BC, Regional Clinical Practice Consultant, Perioperative Services, NCAL Kaiser Permanente, recipient of The DAISY Foundation DAISY Nurse Leader Award.   Rhafia Bucoy is NCAL Perioperative Services’ clinical practice and financial performance consultant. She serves as an OR nurse informaticist and analyst, and she is definitely everyone’s “go-to person” for everything Perioperative data, clinical staffing, OpTime build, and all other things. Rhafia is the nurse in the background who silently gets things done, from report build to data mining, analysis, and presentations. She is the clinical liaison to the national teams for KPHC, national product council, and revenue cycle. She is responsible for the clinical testing and auditing of electronic med record documentation.   Despite the overwhelming demand for reports and other competing priorities, Rhafia manages them well and always willingly helps others. She has collaborated with revenue cycle in closing out unposted surgical logs and ensuring accurate implant documentation. She has also recently agreed to close out records related to bedside procedure recovery to ensure accurate capture of workload and patient throughout in the post operative space.   Rhafia serves as the clinical lead and resource for all of NCAL’s surgical system administrators as she lends her expert consulting hat in the OpTime domain from case creation to case closure and posting. Rhafia partnered with supply chain on the implementation of Case Pick App in 19 NCAL facilities, 11 of which went live in 2023. This application helps accurate accounting of supplies used in each surgical case leading to cost valuation and eventual supply standardization. With a few more sites going live in 2024, procedure card maintenance is key and Rhafia recognized this gap in some locations. With this information, she took the initiative to reinvigorate and develop training modules on procedure card updates. She partnered with the national training team and launched the first facilitator-led training in January of 2024.   Another important work that Rhafia is leading is the implementation of the Preop and PACU bay assignment to capture both medical and surgical workload in the perioperative spaces to inform staffing decisions. Her collaboration with the workforce and finance teams is critical in this important work.   Rhafia is a self-directed and a silent nurse leader in the Perioperative space. Her contributions to KP NCAL nursing can easily go unnoticed but definitely worthy of a recognition. She is an asset to have in the team.   #DAISYaward #Kpnursing #Kpnurses #YouBelongHere   Janet Jule, DNP RN, NEA-BC, Jason David Unger

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Join the conversation with Katherine Power on this great topic of human centeredness https://lnkd.in/gtjXQYTx

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Join Us for a Cancer Registry Listening Session    ASTP/ONC and NCI invites you to participate in an upcoming listening session focused on the Cancer Registry use case and USCDI+ Cancer Registry data element list published on July 23rd. This session will provide an opportunity to discuss the importance and ease of collection of the data elements, the potential burden of sharing them electronically, and the impact on the future flow of data as we gather feedback from stakeholders like you.    Date:  August 29, 2024  Time:  2 – 3pm ET  Location: Online   Cancer Registry Overview    The scope of this use case includes the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Program of Cancer Registries (CDC/NPCR) state cancer registries, and the cancer registry standards organization, North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR). Together, these entities play a critical role in understanding the burden of cancer in the US related to cancer incidence, first course of treatment patterns, mortality, and survival.    Currently, there are delays in obtaining data from these sources, with available data often up to 3 years behind the current year. The objective of this use case is to enhance the efficiency and timeliness of the collection of cancer registry data by identifying standards (e.g., FHIR, mCODE, etc.) to efficiently extract and/or collect cancer registry data directly from EHRs and pathology labs at a sufficient level of granularity. This data must be interoperable with the cancer clinical, public health, and research communities. The USCDI+ Cancer use case will define the data standards and models needed for identifying and extracting required data, as well as support current data sharing and linkage approaches for cancer registry data via SEER and CDC/NPCR.    With the advent of real-time reporting, capturing a minimum dataset through a FHIR query as early as possible is crucial. This dataset must meet certain quality standards to make the information usable.    This listening session will cover the cancer registry data flow and the points of exchange of data, which are critical for understanding and optimizing the interoperability and timeliness of data sharing. We will review the published data element list and discuss the cancer registry framing questions related to data element completeness, implementation, and real-time reporting.    How to Participate:    To join the listening session, please register using the link below. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].     In the meantime, visit the USCDI+ platform (https://lnkd.in/escfySag) to review and provide feedback to the recently published cancer registry data element list during the 60-day comment period.  https://lnkd.in/eeErFiSq

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A 2021 report by the The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found that while more than 35% of health care visits in the U.S. are to primary care physicians, only about 5% of health spending is on primary care. That’s compared with about 13% for some other developed nations. #primarycare #prevention #publichealth #california https://lnkd.in/g37iugjS

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The following item provides additional insight into physician consolidation

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#Hospitals and health systems are facing mounting #AdministrativeCosts due to the growing #AdministrativeBurden of #PriorAuthorization and #Denials by commercial health insurers. If you don't believe me, the American Hospital Association reported that hospitals’ labor costs alone increased by more than $42.5 billion between 2021 and 2023. That's nearly $6M per hospital in additional costs. Additionally, the overall administrative costs in the U.S. healthcare system are estimated to be around $496 billion annually! This burden makes us the most wasteful healthcare system in the world. These rising administrative burdens are unsustainable. Period.

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This was a thought provoking article that I hope sparks more conversation. There were a lot of points, but these three points I walked away with coincide with conversations I have had regarding hospital-based nursing. 1. While not explicit, how we keep the nursing workforce prepared beyond orientation? 2. We should focus more on harm avoidance instead of mostly harm caused when quantifying nursing outcomes. 3. To deliver excellent care, nurses need a supportive practice environment. What are your thoughts?

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