Doctors groups have raised safety concerns over plans to roll out an AI-Assisted Discharge Summary tool nationally through the FDP.

Sending complete, thorough discharge summaries to nursing homes when a person leaves a hospital promotes resident safety and lowers risk for readmissions, a new study finds. The Joint Commission, ...

Complete and timely discharge summaries can help prevent readmissions and improve patient safety, suggests a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Joint Commission-accredited ...

On November 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Proposed Rule that would revise the discharge planning conditions of participation (CoPs) for Hospitals, Critical Access ...

Hospitals can reduce readmissions and speed up recovery by promptly delivering a detailed discharge summary to patients' doctors, according to two new studies from Yale School of Medicine published in ...

NEW HAVEN >> Making sure a detailed discharge summary gets quickly from the hospital to a patient’s doctor can avoid readmission and aid in recovery, according to two Yale School of Medicine studies.

An effective hospital discharge process created by Cleveland Clinic is pivotal in the handoff of patients to postacute-care providers. Hospital discharge is a complex process involving the primary ...

The workshop’s second panel was structured with one presentation and three reactions to that presentation. In the main presentation, Mark Williams, director of the Center for Health Services Research ...