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Inpatient care is the care of patients whose condition requires admission to a hospital. Progress in modern medicine and the advent of comprehensive out-patient clinics ensure that patients are only admitted to a hospital when they are extremely ill or have severe physical trauma .
A hospital readmission is an episode when a patient who had been discharged from a hospital is admitted again within a specified time interval. Readmission rates have increasingly been used as an outcome measure in health services research and as a quality benchmark for health systems. Generally, higher readmission rate indicates ...
The generic model used in the United States is the chronic care model, which holds that health care does not only involve change in the patient and that high-quality disease care counts the community, the health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support, and clinical information systems as important elements in ...
Delays in transfers can put people at higher risk of complications and derail day-to-day life for patients. 'We're at a standstill': Patients can face agonizing waits for hospital transfers Skip ...
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Consolidation among IDNs in the United States has critics who say these networks may actually be trending the cost curve upward. An interview of health insurers regarding Partner's Healthcare proposed acquisition of the Care New England Health System, for example, exposed the trepidation insurers have regarding IDN leverage over payers. [9]
University of Pennsylvania Health System: 4 — Lancaster Rehabilitation Hospital: Lancaster Lancaster: 59: 0: For-profit: Rehabilitation: University of Pennsylvania Health System — — Lankenau Medical Center: Wynnewood: Montgomery: 370: 19: Non-profit: General acute: Main Line Health/Main Line Hospitals: 10 — LECOM Health - Corry Memorial ...
Health information exchange (HIE) is the mobilization of health care information electronically across organizations within a region, community or hospital system. Participants in data exchange are called in the aggregate Health Information Networks (HIN).