BY VALERIE LINZEY, DNP, APRN, FNP-C Primary care practices are faced with many challenges when their patients are admitted or visit an outside facility or hospital. One of the major problems is a breakdown of communication when patients are discharged from the health facility or hospital and need to follow with primary care. Evidence suggests …
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BY DR. COLLEEN MORLEY, DNP, RN, CCM, CMAC, CMCN, ACM-RN, FCM INTRODUCTION Are we there yet? As we come to the final installment of my Electronic Road Trip series, I hope you have found some great new resources and revisited familiar ones with new perspective. Continuing my review of some excellent repositories of knowledge dedicated to …
An Electronic Road Trip: Visiting Evidence-based Practice Resources, Part 3 Read More »
BY MARY PAQUETTE, RN, BSN, CCM, AND MELINDA BAXTER, RN, MSN, CCM Gene therapy is the latest high-cost challenge facing health plans and reinsurers alike. The need to understand issues associated with treatments, medical management, network management and contracting will evolve and persist. Take, for example, when organ transplantation networks first came on the scene. …
BY DR. COLLEEN MORLEY, DNP, RN, CCM, CMAC, CMCN, ACM-RN, FCM Digital technologies are electronic tools, systems, devices and resources that generate, store or process data. Social media, online games, multimedia, patient portals and “apps” are just a few examples on how healthcare has leveraged digital technologies. Digital technology links to digital learning, which is any …
BY DR. LISA PARKER-WILLIAMS DNP, MBA, RN, CCM, AND KATHLEEN PARRY, BSN, RN, CCM When one thinks about evidence-based practice (EBP), some of us in the healthcare world question whether it is a “buzz” word or if this is being implemented into practice (Ross, 2006). From a nursing perspective, it is best to investigate the history of …
The Value of Evidence-based Practice & Research in Case Management Read More »
The pandemic has changed so much of what we do and how we do it, but it has not stopped CMSA from advocating for case managers everywhere. The CMSA Public Policy Committee hosted the organization’s very first Virtual Hill Visits program earlier this year, and while many were skeptical about how effective this mode of …
