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Who Owns Transportation in a Health System?

Patient transportation in a healthcare system is essential for ensuring timely and appropriate care. While non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) might seem like a straightforward process, its coordination involves multiple roles across various departments. Case managers, social workers, unit desk clerks, EMS teams, and command centers all contribute to a seamless, patient-centered transportation system. Each plays […]

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Building Your Transportation Community: Evaluating Your Network Performance

Now that you have defined the components of a community, established your provider network, and selected a transportation model, it is time to put them together to form your personalized Transportation Community. But no community can function without help. Below, you will find some methods of evaluating and optimizing your performance. Measuring transportation is crucial

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Building Your Transportation Community: Selecting the Right Community Model

Now that you have defined the components of a community and established your provider network, let’s discuss how you can most effectively allocate rides within the community. It’s crucial to recognize that each hospital has unique requirements that will impact their approach to this process. Choosing a Transportation Community Model Within each Transportation Community, there

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Building Your Transportation Community: Establishing Your Provider Network

Now that we have established what a transportation community is, let’s discuss the first step required in building one. This page will highlight some key steps needed to establish your transportation provider network. 1. Identify Your Goals   Start by identifying the goals you would like to achieve with a transportation network. This step is

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Building Your Transportation Community: Defining the Components

To Successfully Build your Transportation Community, You First Need to Learn What It Is A transportation community, or transportation network, is a group of non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) providers that a hospital relies on to provide patients with rides from point A to B. Hospitals typically have formal agreements with these transportation providers, which outline

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NEMTAC Transform Recap Blog

Key Insights from the 2024 NEMTAC Transform Conference

3 Major Trends Shaping the NEMT Industry The 2024 Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Accreditation Commission (NEMTAC) Transform Conference, held in Glendale, Arizona, remains a pivotal event for the NEMT industry. As the leading annual gathering for professionals across the sector, it brings together healthcare providers, transportation organizations, technology innovators, and policymakers to share knowledge, foster partnerships,

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Patient Transportation: A Common Barrier to Discharge

Optimizing Patient Flow through Targeted Workflow Improvements: Recapping our CMSA Poster Presentation   Patient transportation often emerges as a hurdle to timely patient discharge. At St. Luke’s University Health System (SLUHN), this challenge loomed large, impeding the seamless flow of patients through the improved continuum of care. The Communication Center struggled to keep pace amidst

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Healthcare Tech 101: How to Excel in Security Reviews

Meet Roundtrip’s Guest Author – Sze Hui Sze Hui, CSPO has spent over 8 years in the healthcare industry, leading efforts to optimize workflows and eliminate copy/paste through data interoperability and integrations. As a Solutions Architect, Sze guides health systems through the technical implementation process, bringing data flow and business process together in a cohesive

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