Assessing health literacy levels soon after hospital admission and adjusting discharge instructions accordingly helped reduce ...

Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for patients, providers, and businesses. You can ...

LAS VEGAS – Language barriers remain a persistent challenge in healthcare, often leading to misunderstandings in discharge instructions that can increase medical risk and contribute to avoidable ...

More than 500,000 patients leave US hospitals each year against medical advice (AMA), in the process facing risks for readmission and bad outcomes. Now, add the risk of feeling stigmatized to the list ...

In the last few years, rates of hospital readmissions have become a key indicator of care quality, and for good reason. When significant numbers of patients in post-acute care settings experience a ...

Hospital discharge readiness is an increasingly pivotal concept in modern healthcare, encapsulating the multifaceted preparation of patients for the transition from hospital to home. It involves ...

A large language model-based tool developed in South Korea has shown potential to halve the time emergency physicians spend writing discharge notes while improving documentation quality. Researchers ...

Discover how early home health intervention and targeted physical therapy can prevent hospital readmissions. Learn why the ...

A discharge lounge boom is on the horizon, yet many systems are struggling to find the best practices for implementation. Discharge lounges are specialized spaces that give patients a quiet place to ...