MCG Releases the 19th Edition of the Industry's Leading Care Guidelines and the Latest Versions of Its Interactive Solutions
Annual Update Cites More Than 7,000 New References -- An Unprecedented 30,000 in Total
SEATTLE, March 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- MCG (part of the Hearst Health network) has just released the 19th edition of the industry's leading evidence-based care guidelines as well as the latest versions of its interactive solutions for health plans and providers.
This year's update to the clinical care guidelines — Ambulatory Care, Inpatient & Surgical Care, General Recovery Care, Home Care, Recovery Facility Care, Behavioral Health Care, Chronic Care, and Patient Information — reflects another extensive review of the latest published research by MCG's world-class editorial team. In preparing the 19th edition, MCG physician and nurse editors evaluated an unprecedented 140,000 unique references, incorporating more than 7,000 of them into the guidelines, which cite nearly 30,000 references in total.
"Each year, MCG editors identify the most important clinical evidence and use it to refine and expand care guidance," says Jon Shreve, President of MCG. "Evidence-based standards of medical necessity and best practice care are constantly evolving. Having the latest research and data at their fingertips helps healthcare professionals improve patient care while managing costs."
In addition to refreshing the cited evidence base and making refinements to the care guidelines, the MCG editorial team has also added valuable new content and tools. Among these include new Ambulatory Care guidelines, strength of recommendation grading for all Ambulatory Care guidelines, more than 70 new patient handouts in Patient Information, Applied Behavioral Analysis guidance in Behavioral Health Care, and a host of additions to Chronic Care, including start-of-care assessments, care transition tools, clinical interventions, symptom-specific information, and a redesigned table of contents.
The latest versions of MCG interactive solutions for health plans (Cite®) and providers (Indicia®) offer new features designed to improve workflow efficiency and usability. CareWebQI® 7.0 and Indicia for Case Management 7.0, for example, both include a Report Scheduler that will give users greater control over the tracking of utilization data. Indicia for Case Management also now makes it easier to customize views of guideline content and patient encounters to accommodate varying needs of large hospital systems.
MCG continues to research the emerging needs of its customers and develop solutions to meet them. For more information about evidence-based care guidelines and interactive solutions from MCG, visit www.mcg.com.
About MCG
MCG, now part of the Hearst Health network, independently develops and produces evidence-based clinical guidelines and software used by more than 2,200 clients, including 1,300 hospitals and eight of the ten largest U.S. health plans. Updated annually by an experienced team of clinicians, the care guidelines support the care management of a majority of Americans. For more information, visit www.mcg.com.
MCG is part of the Hearst Health network, which also includes FDB (First Databank), Zynx Health and Homecare Homebase. The mission of the Hearst Health network is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person's health journey. Each year in the U.S., care guidance from the Hearst Health network reaches 76% of discharged patients, 133 million insured individuals, 30 million home health visits, 1.88 billion retail pharmacy prescriptions and 3.26 billion prescription claims. Extensions of the Hearst Health network include Hearst Health Ventures and the Hearst Health Innovation Lab. www.hearsthealth.com
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