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Blood Pressure Management with Devices Improved Outcomes During the Pandemic
When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted case management, care coordination, transitions, and clinical monitoring of patients with chronic illness, the entire health industry switched to remote monitoring, virtual clinic visits, and virtual case management whenever feasible. A new study revealed that using self-measured blood pressure monitoring and telehealth were among the top ways healthcare professionals adapted to the pandemic’s forced limits on in-person clinic visits.
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Case Management Program Highlights Challenges of Working with High-Need Populations
Care coordinators and case managers know their work makes a positive difference in patients’ lives, but proving this is challenging. For example, the Camden Coalition Care Management Program demonstrated some positive outcomes related to high-cost, high-need patients, including increasing patients’ visits with providers within two weeks after their hospitalizations. However, it did not change their rate of readmissions.
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Care Transitions Break Down Due to Information Delays and Workflow Issues
An impediment to care transition occurs when primary care providers refer patients to specialty consultants and do not send enough information, the authors of a recent study found.
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Health System’s Case Managers Shorten Length of Stay for Complex Patients
Placing case managers in acute care and ambulatory settings to focus on transitions of complex patients could help shorten length of stay.
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Artificial Intelligence Could Help Case Managers Improve Efficiency and Outcomes
Artificial intelligence is poised to take over the fields of media and marketing, banking, legal services, and programming. It also is used in the healthcare field, including case management. That poses the question: Will artificial intelligence replace case managers?
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Working with Private Care Management Professionals to Help Aging Patients
While inflation continues to be a part of the economic landscape of 2024, aging healthcare consumers and their families are considering their options for managing care. With that, private care management, paid for by the consumer, is becoming more popular. These private care management professionals work with clients and their families to design a care plan to carry them through the various stages of aging.
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Navigating Elder Care and Long-Term Care
Elder care in the United States is increasingly a “major source of moral distress in the hospital case management and social work world,” according to Lisa Bednarz, LCSW, CMAC, ACM-SW, ASW-G, regional director of case management for Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health.
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Preventive Care During an Emergency Requires Effective Care Coordination
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted standard health system practices in a way that allowed healthcare researchers and professionals to learn how to improve their preparedness for emergencies and disasters. Case management leaders and others in health systems need to think about their workflow and how it was disrupted during the early months of the pandemic, as well as later in the crisis.
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Social Needs Data Are Useful, but Consistent Collection Needed
Case managers and researchers need data that can be used to improve care coordination and prevent hospitalizations and ED visits. But the challenge is deciding which patient data are useful and which are not.
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Novel Method Proposed to Optimize Care Coordination
Healthcare organizations need new methods to improve care coordination and patient-centered care. A co-author of a recent study proposes a method to determine whether a patient needs primary care or specialty care, naming the categories as “lifer” and “destination.”