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For years, there have been studies showing that clinicians are decreasing time spent with patients due to competing demands. Nurses say that out of a 12-hour shift, only two hours are spent on direct patient care, and doctors spend only 27.5 percent of their daily working time with their patients. As providers look toward value-based care, they’re quickly realizing that having clinicians spend only a fraction of their days on patient care will no longer cut it. Smart providers are looking for ways to not only redesign their hospitals, but also re-engineer workflow so clinicians can spend more time on direct patient care and improve the patient journey through the hospital.
Through my varied experiences as a healthcare and hospital construction consultant and as a registered nurse and nurse practitioner, I’ve found a few areas within hospitals ripe for redesign.
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