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Hospital readmissions are costly and often preventable events. Yet intense efforts to decrease readmissions rates and avoid penalties under the 2010 federal healthcare reform law have yet to have a significant impact, as one in five hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries are still being readmitted within 30 days of discharge.

Government Health IT»

An Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is only as successful as the sum of its fundamental parts. Failure by just one participating provider to achieve a successful outcome on any of the 33 required quality measures could ultimately stand between the ACO and its eligibility for incentives under the Medicare Fee-for-Service Shared Savings Program.

HISTalk»

Allison Errickson, CPC-H, director of coding compliance for ProVation Medical, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, discusses the biggest challenges for ambulatory surgery centers with quality reporting for The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and what to watch for in the future.

Becker's Clinical Quality & Infection Control»

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Dec. 4, 2012— Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Covenant HealthCare has selected its ProVation^® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate^® Decision Support, software as its electronic order set solution.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — (Dec. 3, 2012) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah has selected its ProVation^® MultiCaregiver as the organization’s electronic health record and patient charting solution.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — (Nov. 30, 2012) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today general availability of its integration interface between Epic and ProVation^® Care Plans. Developed in collaboration with Duke University Health System, this interface enables hospitals to create and customize care plans via the ProVation software and then make finished care plans available in the Epic inpatient clinical platform.

s healthcare organizations plan their ICD-10 transition strategy, many are discovering that the effort will touch nearly every area of operations. It’s an overwhelming proposition for many providers in light of the sheer number of regulatory initiatives vying for staff resources and budget line items.

For the Record»

The recent death of 12-year-old Rory Stauton generated a firestorm of media coverage that thrust sepsis and the challenges it presents to the healthcare system into the national spotlight. The missed diagnosis in the emergency department that resulted in a fatal treatment delay served as a devastating reminder of the often tragic – and usually preventable – outcome of sepsis.

Health Management Technology»

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Oct. 24, 2012 — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Eugene Gastroenterology Consultants, P.C., has selected its ProVation^® Medical Software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding.

When hospitals are sharing information internally or externally, accurately linking patient records from multiple disparate databases and information systems is critical to ensuring clinicians are making decisions based on the correct and accurate patient records and avoiding the creation of system-clogging duplicates and overlays.

HealthData Management»

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Oct. 22, 2012— Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Beaufort Memorial Hospital has selected its ProVation^® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate^® Decision Support, software as the hospital’s electronic order set solution.

TAMPA, Fla. – Oct. 16, 2012 – HealthPlan Services (HPS), the nation’s leading technology and administrative services provider for the insurance and managed care markets, announced today that benefit crossroads has been named a 2012 W³ Gold Winner for creative website design in the insurance category. The site, a unique direct-to-consumer sales channel for top-rated individual insurance plans, was executed through a partnership with Tampa-based Bayshore Solutions.