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Friday, July 17, 2015
Online CME learning has hidden benefits - Sherree Geyer, Healthcare IT News
Hospitals that leverage online learning to reduce the cost of continuing education requirements may experience a bonus: lower lengths of stay, reduced readmissions and improved quality indicators. So says Teresa Fugate, a case management consultant who credits online learning tools with lower lengths of stay at Knoxville, Tenn.-based Covenant Health, where she served as vice president of case management for five years.
"We saw a reduction in LOS by getting tidbits (of information) on how to handle a chronic case," she says – adding that informed case managers made informed decisions.
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/online-cme-learning-has-hidden-benefits