Our Health Care Group analyzes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ long-awaited final rule on discharge planning, focused on data sharing and patient preferences. Focus on patient goals and ...

CMS has revised guidelines for the discharge planning condition of participation in the State Operations Manual. The revisions show the consolidation of 24 previous discharge planning tags into ...

Intelligent patient flow management reduces length of stay and boarding by integrating capacity, admission, and discharge planning with AI-driven insights.

Can artificial intelligence improve discharge planning? Has AI finally found a role in day-to-day healthcare? The answer is a tentative maybe. "Timely patient discharge requires a coordinated effort ...

How many times through the course of the day, doing what we do in healthcare, does communication between every member of the team prove itself to be critical to the success of almost everything we do ...

On September 26, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new Final Rule, Revisions to Discharge Planning Requirements (CMS-3317-F) in a bid to “improve engagement, choice ...

The Trump administration issued a long-awaited final rule on how hospitals must handle discharge planning, introducing new requirements on records access. The rule released on Thursday by the Centers ...

Medicare offers a free, downloadable tool designed to help patients and their caregivers plan for discharge. The tool, entitled Your Discharge Planning Checklist, lists action items patients should ...

(Boston)-- Being a parent of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) infant does not come with its own playbook of instructions. Preparing to care for a medically needy infant requires the mastery of ...