In recent weeks, nurses in various health systems in NYC have gone on strike to put pressure on their employers to listen to their concerns and offer...
Posts by Erica Mitchell:
Language is by far the most astonishing difference between humans and all other life on Earth. The richness, diversity, prevalence and pervasiveness...
Medical researchers have recently placed more emphasis on the non-medical conditions that impact patient health and outcomes. Collectively known as...
The medical chart is set to become a thing of the past. Those thick folders containing your medical history are steadily being replaced by electronic...
Many healthcare concerns will follow us into the new year, some we have carried for decades and some that have become more threatening thanks to the...
In our previous posts about the Case-Mix Index (CMI), we explored what it conveys and how it is calculated. Today we will discuss who looks at that...
Last week, we looked at Diagnosis-Related Groups and how they receive codes based on cost and complexity. These numbers play a key role in the...
Did everyone notice the uptick in respiratory illnesses (including COVID) that started about a week and a half after Thanksgiving? Many of us might...
The Case-Mix Index (CMI) has been defined in many ways. One definition might read "a relative value assigned to a diagnostic-related group." Another...
Ambulatory health care facilities, such as outpatient surgery and diagnostic centers, face new regulations requiring the active presence of an...
No profession knows more about disease transmission than those working in infection control and prevention. And yet, due to a complex network of...
Among all tracked hospital-associated infections, the one that seems to have the lowest rates are surgical site infections. While this relative...