Deploying Bots in Healthcare to Find Revenue Cycle Improvements.

Doing more with less has been a business mantra for decades. Healthcare leaders have implemented flex scheduling and job sharing, streamlined workflows, committed to process improvement techniques such as Lean, hired retirees, gained efficiencies from remote work ..

Interprofessional collaboration and communication to facilitate implementation of cognitive rehabilitation in persons with brain injury.

Cognitive rehabilitation encompasses therapeutic services directed at improving cognitive functioning and functional abilities in individuals with brain injury. The term cognitive rehabilitation, however, is often broadly defined, and interventions delivered by individual disciplines may vary in their conceptualizations. This paper, written by an interprofessional collaborative group of speech-language pathologists and rehabilitation psychologists/ neuropsychologists identifies challenges in interprofessional rehabilitation of cognitive problems as well as solutions for addressing those challenges.

A delay-discounting measure of preference for racial/ethnic matching in psychotherapy.

In this study, we sought to compare racial/ethnic minority participants' preference for racial/ethnic matching in psychotherapy with preferences for other methods of addressing cultural factors in treatment. Using a delay-discounting method, college students (331 racial/ethnic minority students from 2 universities) and a nationwide sample of self-reported clients (n = 77) were asked to indicate their strength of preference for 4 different methods for addressing culturally related variables in psychotherapy, including a desire to (a) work with a therapist whose race/ethnicity matches their own, (b) work with a therapist with a high level of multicultural training and experience, (c) receive a culturally adapted treatment, and (d) receive a therapist who is also a member of a racial/ethnic minority group, but not the same as the participant (i.e.

A Multisite Pre/Post Study of Mindfulness Training for Therapists: The Impact on Session Presence and Effectiveness.

Background: To date, little research has tested whether the use of mindfulness by clinicians results in actual changes in psychotherapy sessions. The purpose of this multisite study was to test whether a brief 5-week mindfulness training program could lead to improved session presence and effectiveness for trainee clinicians ( = 31).

Methods: At the end of 85 pretraining and 132 posttraining sessions, clients completed the client version of the Therapist Presence Inventory (TPI-C; Geller, Greenberg, & Watson, 2010) and the Session Rating Scale (SRS; Johnson, Miller, & Duncan, 2000).

Mindfulness as a transtheoretical clinical process.

The use of mindfulness in psychotherapy has garnered the attention of both researchers and therapists over recent years. Based on established research, use of mindfulness with clients is recommended to improve awareness during sessions, reduce ruminative thinking patterns, and increase self-compassion regardless of theoretical orientation. In this article, de-identified clinical material is used to illustrate both informal and formal mindfulness training in session.

Effects of pre-session centering for therapists on session presence and effectiveness.

The present study tested whether engaging in a mindfulness centering exercise 5 minutes before a session could have a positive impact on therapy, in particular on the therapists' ability to remain present in session and on session outcomes. Results indicated that therapists perceived themselves as being more present in session when they prepared for their sessions by engaging in a mindfulness centering exercises (d=.45), while clients perceived their therapists as being highly present regardless of whether their therapist completed the mindfulness centering exercise.

Release of information.

Release of information will get easier as health IT advances. But for now, it can be a labor-intensive effort requiring more expenses than many outside the process may realize.

Improving cash flow in a down economy. How HIM can help reduce denials.

Maybe HIM professionals can't ease tight credit or reduce bad debt, but they can make sure their organizations get full, correct reimbursement on the first submission. HIM professionals help improve cash flow by contributing to revenue cycle management n these tough economic times-when increases in bad

HIPAA copy charges for medical records.

The HIPAA privacy rule allows providers to charge for providing copies of medical records to patients and their representatives. Providers need to know which activities in the retrieval and handling of such information can be included in the medical record copy charges. State-mandated fees for copies vary and may be preempted by HIPAA, requiring careful review by providers.

Turning production data into management tools.

Staring down another backlog in your HIM department? Use routine data collection activities to strengthen your case for additional staff, increased budget dollars, or an incentive program.