The Direct Dispatch
A Newsletter For Healthcare Providers
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Greetings!
This month's Direct Dispatch goes into more depth about our new partnership with ARMUS. It also gives you some important updates from CMS. Make sure to read below to find out the details!
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Direct Difference Inc Partnership With ARMUS
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Last month we introduced you to ARMUS, our technology partner. This month we wanted to go into depth on something that will provide a more complete view of the total health story of your patients.
We at Direct Difference and ARMUS believe that accurate and timely interpretation of clinical information can and will improve the quality of healthcare and patients’ lives. We know this can only be achieved through constant improvement of services, information technology, and reporting in an engaged collaborative partnership.
Hybrid is a patient-centric database, so all episodes for any and all registries are linked to a single patient record. This means that you can view any episode on your patient for STS General Thoracic STS Adult Cardiac, ACC CathPCI, ACC ICD, ACC Action, ACC AFib, OB, GWTG-CAD, PVI and other future registries.
Navigating the Hybrid system is very easy. The Tool Panel provides a search option that can be used to search by MRN, episode or demographic criteria. Once the patient is located you will open their record to see multiple episodes. You can quickly drill down to a very detailed level. Moving around from episode to episode is simple and does not require a cumbersome “log out/log in” technique.
Interested in more information about the Direct Difference-ARMUS partnership and how it can help you? Contact us today! Simply reply to this email for more information.
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Is Sepsis Hurting Your Bottom Line?
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Best practices are emerging that healthcare organizations can use to optimize care and reduce ICU utilization.
New research by Premier Inc. has pinpointed 10 diagnoses that spawn the most care variation within the ICU as well as unnecessary extensions in hospital stays. Cardiac procedures and sepsis top the list.
The analysis was published in Premier's latest Margin of Excellence report, and is based on an analysis of 20 million patient discharges across 786 hospitals in 45 states over a five-year period from 2011-2016.
Need help collecting data to use for improvement in any area? Contact us today - we can help.
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Quality Reporting Center Updates
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Attention ALL NHSN users! The timeline for the updated NHSN Agreement to Participate and Consent has been adjusted to now allow Facility Administrators the ability to review and agree to the new electronic Consent in addition to all primary contacts. For all current NHSN users, the updated Consent will be available for review and electronic signature on January 23, 2018. Primary Contacts or Facility Administrators should agree to this updated Consent form for each component by April 14, 2018, or risk losing access to NHSN. Once the Consent form is available on January 23, an alert will appear on all NHSN component home pages, and Primary Contacts and Facility Administrators will receive an email notification. Additional information, including Frequently Asked Questions, will be available online in the coming weeks.
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Need Additional Services?
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We can help!
Quality In Healthcare Made Easier With Smart Sourcing
Measuring quality is necessary for improving healthcare. We understand that when providers are overly consumed with measuring and reporting quality metrics, it is difficult to actually apply results and focus on actions that lead to real improvements.
Why not smart source all of your data abstraction needs so that it is done better, faster, more consistently, and at lower cost and with less risk? Did you know we provide abstraction services for core measures, non-core measures, registry, OPPE-FPPE, NHSN, peer review, pharmaceutical studies and others? If you have any data abstraction needs please contact us for more information. All you have to do is respond to this email to get started.
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Healthcare Trends in 2018
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With 2017 in the rear-view mirror, it is time to look forward to 2018 and how healthcare will evolve in this year. The last year has been an eventful one for healthcare, from the uproar in healthcare regulations to potential mega-mergers. Needless to say, it’s a time of transition, and healthcare is in a very fluid state- evolving and expanding.
Despite speculations, healthcare providers, as well as CMS have pushed for more value-based care and payments tied to quality, but it’s been going slow. Although providers have been slightly resistant to take on risk, they do recognize the potential to contain costs and improve quality of care over value-based contracts. And perhaps
as data assumes a central role in healthcare,
the increasing availability of data and
smarter integration
of disconnected data systems will make the transition easier and scalable.
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Hear what our abstractors say about working with us:
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Cervical Health Awareness Month
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Cervical Health Awareness Month is a chance to raise awareness about how women can protect themselves from HPV (human papillomavirus) and cervical cancer. HPV is a very common infection that spreads through sexual activity, and it causes almost all cases of cervical cancer.
About 79 million Americans currently have HPV. Many people with HPV don’t know they are infected. And each year, more than 11,000 women in the United States get cervical cancer.
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Cyber Security and Health IT
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At RSNA 2017, an expert warns that insecurity of medical devices, including imaging hardware, threatens patient safety.
Get the details here.
Listen to the Executive's Guide to Cybersecurity - Proactive Prevention and Reactive Remedies
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