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A Physician Advisor’s Approach to Managing LOS
Length of stay is important for many reasons. Optimal LOS can improve patient safety, lower costs, and improve throughput, enabling doctors, nurses, and hospitals to serve more patients. Gain insight from Hank Selke, Sound Physician’s Medical Director of Advisory Services.
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Communication and Self-Awareness in the ICU
A recent study shows that deliberations between ICU doctors and families often lack in terms of treatment decisions versus patients’ values and preferences. Click here to learn more.
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Telemedicine Adoption and Success: Three Ways Leaders Can Set the Stage
As hospitals and health systems swiftly find their way to value-based care, telemedicine is one very practical solution towards success. Read how healthcare leaders can seamlessly deploy telemedicine as a clinical management tool across the acute episode of care.
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Customer Satisfaction: Changing Care Outcomes
Communication styles and interpersonal skills affect patient satisfaction scores, but they can also influence the healing process. Don’t miss Dr. Hesham Hassaballa’s insightful blog as he talks health outcomes, patient experience, and why being nice matters.
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How to Combat Increasing Commercial Payer Denials
Commercial payer scrutiny is on the rise and handling denials is costly and time-consuming. Here are a few steps you can take to combat denials and ensure your patients receive the care they need.
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Electronic Medical Records – Tips to Create Efficiencies and Reduce Stress
EMRs help improve healthcare delivery, but they can also be stressful. Here are some documentation tips to help streamline the process.
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Five Questions Every Hospital Administrator Should Ask in 2019
As we enter the new year, here are five questions every hospital administrator should ask to help navigate the changing healthcare landscape.
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Six Highly-Recommended Books for Last-Minute Gifts
Last minute shopping? Here are 6 fascinating books to ring in the New Year.
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Taming Tech to Unleash Ideas
Technology can expand our minds, but sometimes hinder our focus. Here’s a way to tame tech and prioritize your attention.
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Patience During End-Of-Life Discussions
What does patience have to do with the healing process and end-of-life discussions? Here’s a simple but powerful example.
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5 Tips for Being Receptive to Feedback
Most of us love hearing positive feedback. However, it’s common to be a little hesitant and even defensive when it comes to hearing constructive feedback. Here are 5 tips for being receptive to constructive feedback.
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Innovation is a Mindset
Innovation means many things to different people. Here are ten ways to make innovation a tangible company value, mindset, and culture.
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Detailed Documentation: Time Well Spent
Spending a little extra time to clearly outline medical necessity in documentation is vital.
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Sepsis Care Revisited
September is Sepsis Awareness Month, which is a perfect opportunity to revisit our approach to sepsis care.
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7 Tips for Growing Yourself as a Leader: Tried and True Ways to Embark on Your Leadership Journey
Professional development is not something reserved for formal programs, but rather a lifelong journey. Follow these 7 tips to grow and develop as a leader.
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Fostering a Culture of Innovation
Shortly after joining Sound Physicians, I received an email inviting submissions for the National Clinical Leadership Session (NCIS). This was the start of my experience with NCIS, helping create innovative projects that positively impact the care we provide to patients nationwide.
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From the Appeals Desk: Acute Respiratory Failure (Part 2/2)
Essential documentation is critical to support the work physicians do. It only takes a few seconds longer, and it can make all the difference.
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Webinar Highlights: Are You Optimizing the Performance of Your Emergency Department?
When it comes to improving the performance of your emergency department, engagement should be a top priority. Providers and hospital leaders need to be aligned and engaged to truly provide the best care and increase performance of your department.
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The Opioid Crisis
We are in the throes of the prescription opioid crisis. To understand how to solve the issue of opioid addiction, we must look to the cause of the crisis and identify additional methods for managing pain.
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From the Appeals Desk: Acute Respiratory Failure (Part 1/2)
If you want your claims to be approved, you must provide accurate and detailed documentation. Here are a few common reasons for denials of acute respiratory failure and why clear documentation is critical.