COVID-19

New COVID-19 prediction model can help determine disease progression

Anuja Vaidya for Becker’s Hospital Review Researchers from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine have developed a prediction model to help clinicians forecast if a coronavirus patient’s conditions are likely to worsen. To develop the model, the researchers used data collected from 827 COVID-19 patients admitted to five Johns Hopkins hospitals between March 4 and April 24. They wrote about the…

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587 hospital CFOs, rev cycle leaders answer: How has the pandemic affected rev cycle?

By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many hospital CFOs and revenue cycle leaders are dealing with erratic and unpredictable claim volumes, confusion over complex billing requirements and staffing issues, according to a new survey. The HFMA-commissioned survey was released by revenue cycle management company Alpha Health. The survey included…

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ICD-10 codes don’t accurately capture COVID-19 symptoms, study shows

Kat Jercich for Healthcare IT News A study published this past week in JAMA Network Open suggests symptom-specific ICD-10 codes don’t always capture COVID-19-related symptoms. An electronic health record review of 2,201 patients who had been tested for COVID-19 found that ICD-10 codes had low sensitivity and negative predictive value for capturing cough, fever and…

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Wide nurse staffing variation across hospitals poses a threat to the public’s health

By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance Many hospitals in New York and Illinois were understaffed right before the first surge of critically ill COVID-19 patients, while New York City — an international gateway to the U.S. with three major international airports, and the early epicenter of the coronavirus surge in the U.S. — had the…

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States ranked by adults reporting anxiety, depression symptoms during pandemic

By Anuja Vaidya for Becker’s Hospital Review West Virginia had the highest percentage of adults reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression in the last week of June, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The data is from the Household Pulse Survey 2020, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau in partnership with the National Center for…

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Guest post: Most common COVID-19 respiratory manifestations

By Alba Kuqi, MD, CICA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CSMC for ACDIS CDI Blog In their review of the medical record, CDI professionals aim to reconstruct the patient story from admission to discharge by examining, understanding, and synthesizing many puzzle pieces from disparate systems and people. Many patients coming in with COVID-19 related pneumonia are demonstrating…

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Half of consumers avoid seeking care because it’s too difficult

By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance Finding, accessing, and paying for healthcare in America requires so much work that half of consumers have avoided seeking care altogether, a new survey has found. More than two-thirds of consumers said every step of the healthcare process is a chore. Most said they don’t know how much a…

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How Northwell Health treated acutely ill COVID-19 patients at home

By Mackenzie Bean for Becker’s Hospital Review Northwell Health rapidly developed a care program to treat more than 150 severely ill COVID-19 patients at home in response to the surge in COVID-19 cases in New York this spring, reports The New York Times. The home care program relies on a team of specialists who use telehealth…

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Nearly 40% of Americans misused cleaning products trying to kill COVID-19, CDC finds

By Anuja Vaidya for Becker’s Hospital Review About 39 percent of Americans report misusing cleaning supplies to prevent coronavirus transmission, including using bleach on food, a new survey shows. The survey, conducted by the CDC, polled 502 U.S. adults in May. Thirty-nine percent of respondents reported intentionally engaging in at least one high-risk practice not recommended…

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