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Why Digital Engagement Is Critical to Navigating the Healthcare Labor Shortage
Healthcare providers today face an environment of extraordinary uncertainty. From the spread of the Delta variant to the growing labor shortage, the strains on the nation’s healthcare system are unlike anything we’ve seen in the past 50 years. During a time when so much is unknown, however, one thing is clear: in a volatile healthcare climate, it is vital to provide your patients and staff with a safe digital experience. -
Innovation and agility — The keys to managing surgical services amid uncertainty
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous influence on surgical services, which is one of the most critical financial engines for hospitals and ASC’s. -
Leaning into the slide. Coopetition can fix U.S. healthcare infrastructure
The past eighteen months has been evidence that, as a country, we have no connected health data infrastructure. -
How Automated Schedule Management Improves Patient Access
Filling unexpected open appointment slots left by sudden cancellations is critical to keeping practice schedules full and ensuring that patients quickly get the care they need. -
Improving ED and ACO collaboration through a common technology platform
The healthcare landscape is ever changing, and because of this, the role that Emergency Department (ED) providers play is also in a state of constant change. -
Addressing Medically Complex Patient Challenges: How LTACHs Help Health Systems Improve Care and Reduce Cost
Recent data shows that patients admitted to short-term acute care hospitals (STACHs) have increasingly complicated medical conditions. This has led many hospitals to seek support from experienced management partners in the long-term acute care hospital (LTACH) space to help address the unique needs of this critical population. While medically complex and critically ill patients make up only 5% of the U.S. patient population, they account for 50% of healthcare spending.1 -
Lessons learned: Addressing the pandemic through care collaboration
On May 20, 2020, HealthLeaders presented a webinar featuring a roundtable discussion of some of the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Reducing avoidable hospital readmissions with care coordination technology
Readmissions have and continue to serve as a key indicator of the quality of care patients receive from the US healthcare system. -
Enterprise imaging streamlines workflows: MetroHealth shares 5 lessons learned
Consolidating disparate imaging systems throughout a complex healthcare organization is a necessary yet challenging task. Bringing together key stakeholders and nurturing a collaborative culture are keys to success. -
How Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital are collaborating to transform patient care — 4 takeaways
Advanced genomic information has the potential to expand access to personalized medicine and generate better patient outcomes. Incorporating genomic-based insights into patient care, however, requires thoughtful processes and a system-wide strategy. -
Streamlining Utilization Management Through Care Collaboration
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are approximately 139 million emergency department (ED) visits every year in the United States. -
The Value of Point-of-Care MR Imaging: 5 Notes from UC Irvine Physicians
MR imaging widely follows up on CT exams, with demand for MRI capabilities only expected to grow. In response, more healthcare organizations are noticing the value of portable, point-of-care MRI. -
Reinventing Community-Based Healthcare Delivery in a Value-Based Landscape
The movement to community-based care had momentum even prior to the pandemic, but never has the opportunity for change been more primed than present day. At Chapters Health System, this change was really an expansion of the mission we’ve always served. -
Managing chronic kidney disease: Life saving technology learned from Native Americans
For years, hypertension has dominated the healthcare field, afflicting 45 percent of all adult Americans, inducing a number of lethal complications in patients across the country. Another disease that has gained renown in the world of healthcare is diabetes, afflicting 10.5 percent of the U.S. population with its own complications. -
How a Mississippi health system used an electronic consent process to cut through the chaos of 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic revolutionized healthcare and made critical the need for practices to ensure they could continue performing elective procedures without delay. -
The evolution of COVID-19 rapid testing: 4 quotes from Abbott Executive Vice President Andrea Wainer
Andrea Wainer, Abbott's Executive Vice President of Rapid and Molecular Diagnostics participated in a fireside chat during the Becker's Healthcare CEO and CFO Virtual Event in November. Ms. Wainer joined Abbott in 1997 and took her latest role in June 2019. -
Part II: Hospital providers should prepare for longer than they think
The COVID-19 pandemic started nearly eleven months ago and has resulted in worldwide human suffering, an economic meltdown, and increased healthcare inequities and disparities. It has also contributed to a highly contentious American presidential election and the social justice demonstrations throughout the United States. Since the discovery of the virus, no aspect of the American lifestyle has been spared from dramatic changes. 2020 is likely to go down in history — along with 1860, 1929 and 1968 — as one of the watershed years of the Great American Experiment. This once-in-a-generation pandemic has impacted the global population with a similar magnitude as past world wars. -
PointClickCare to buy Collective Medical for more data-driven care: 2 execs share plans
On Dec. 8, PointClickCare announced its intent to acquire Collective Medical, which would create the largest acute and post-acute network for care coordination in the nation. -
PointClickCare Technologies announces intent to acquire Collective Medical, creating the largest combined acute and post-acute care network in North America
In a press release today, PointClickCare Technologies, the leader in cloud-based software technology for the long-term and post-acute care market, announced its intent to acquire Collective Medical, the leading network-enabled platform for real-time cross-continuum care coordination. -
Why hygiene compliance must remain top of mind in patient care facilities
In 2020, the novel coronavirus has upended the world. In patient care facilities, staff are under tremendous pressure to contain COVID-19. Throughout this continued fight, maintaining effective hygiene practices in facilities has been an essential measure in slowing the spread of disease.
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