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Comprehensive Case Management Training for Healthcare Professionals

American Medical Compliance

American Medical Compliance is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians. Moreover, by creating individualized care plans, case managers play a key role in improving patient outcomes. AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

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Medicare Care Compare: Publicly reported performance measures

American Nurse

Takeaways: To help patients and their families make informed decisions about choosing health care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publicly reports quality performance measures. In addition to informing patients, public reporting can drive providers to improve performance.

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Leveling the Playing Field for Rural Health Providers

Health Leaders | Nursing

of full-time NPs seeing Medicare patients and 82% seeing Medicaid patients. NPs are well positioned for primary care roles because of their education and training, says Reisinger, who has helped obtain an advanced educational nursing workforce grant centered on educating nurse practitioners for rural practice.

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New Peripartum Depression Study Shows Gap Between Screening and Outcomes

Relias

However, the results also suggested that most respondents also said they could use more education. My colleagues and I work to help improve maternal health outcomes by providing the best education and competency evaluation solutions for the healthcare workforce. on referrals for behavioral health care.

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Nurses as Key Players in Telehealth

Daily Nurse

“For example, an analysis by McKinsey & Co found that telehealth accounted for less than 1% of Medicare services before the onset of the pandemic, but by July of 2021, telehealth services accounted for about 13-17% of claims submitted to Medicare.

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Meet the New President of the AANP: Stephen A. Ferrara

Minority Nurse

Ferrara is passionate about health information technology and integrating evidence-based practice into daily nursing practice. His doctoral work examined the impact of group medical visits for patients with Type 2 diabetes and whether this intervention led to better health outcomes. It was inspiring to me. So it’s been great.

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New Research Highlights Connection Between Hearing Loss Interventions and Cognitive Decline

Consult QD

This evidence suggests that hearing needs to be a health priority and intervention is necessary to improve other health outcomes.” We’re doing a lot of work to explore the best ways to help our primary care partners make hearing a priority and this includes educating them about these results,” she says.