How Covenant HealthCare Improved ITSM and Project Management Processes with TeamDynamix
IT leaders at Covenant HealthCare, located in Saginaw, Michigan, identified that their IT department needed a better way to manage tickets and projects.
Driving smarter care by embracing telehealth
Healthcare organizations around the world are facing enormous pressures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Positive Vibes Video – Thank you to our healthcare heroes!
Thank you to each and every person contributing to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and thank you to our healthcare leaders for sharing words of gratitude and hope.
Every day is Earth Day at Stericycle
Healthcare organizations with successful sustainability programs know that to have a comprehensive commitment to green initiatives they must partner with a medical waste disposal company that has sustainability at the forefront of its mission.
dbMotion Solution: Harnessing and Harmonizing Data from Disparate Systems
Most health systems own more clinical assets than needed to meet patient demand. Several factors contribute to inflated clinical asset inventories, including equipment replacement prior to the end of its true useful life.
Most health systems own more clinical assets than needed to meet patient demand. Several factors contribute to inflated clinical asset inventories, including equipment replacement prior to the end of its true useful life.
Improve care and boost financial outcomes for your community organization
Community Hospital Summit – See what hospital and IT leaders got up to at Becker’s 5th Annual Health IT + Revenue Cycle Conference.
Allscripts helps clients expand the possibilities for the health of their communities.
Learn how Allscripts CareInMotion™ is the population health management suite of solutions that can help your entire clinical and administrative staff harness all the necessary, actionable patient information—right at the point of care.
Community Hospital Turnarounds
Rural and community hospital leaders frequently encounter challenges that may significantly impact operations and an organization’s long-term financial viability.
Allscripts helps redefine what’s possible in healthcare
Here is a look at what Allscripts is all about.
Solutions for Life: Helping End America’s IV Fluid Shortages
See the full story behind B. Braun’s $1 billion Solutions for Life initiative.
Communication Where You Are: Spok Care Connect at Vail Health
Patient care doesn’t happen at a desk, or even in a static location: Care teams are always on the move and need to be able to communicate effectively on patient care from wherever they might be.
Patient Engagement beyond the portal—anytime, anywhere.
Providers continue to struggle with engaging their patients outside the walls of the hospital and clinic setting. They need a way to meaningfully engage their patient populations in a manner that is both simple and effective. In this video, two Allscripts FollowMyHealth® clients discuss how to make this a reality.
How remote pharmacy models are changing patient care for nursing
Remote pharmacy models provide numerous patient safety and efficiency benefits to the pharmacy by ensuring timely, 24/7 reviews of medication orders. Yet a remote pharmacy team also helps nursing spend more time with patients. From reducing medication overrides to providing immediate access to clinical pharmacists for medication questions, our remote order entry service enables nursing to focus on what’s important: quality patient care.
What supply chain issues are hospitals facing?
In a recent survey, clinicians report spending more than twice the amount of time they would like to on supply-chain related tasks, and as a result have less time with patients and increased stress levels. Cardinal Health surveyed 306 frontline providers, hospital administrators, supply chain decision makers and department managers about their organization’s supply chain. The results show risks to clinician satisfaction, productivity and patient care, while also uncovering opportunities for distributions to support positive outcomes.
Aligning lower cost, improved outcomes, a better patient experience, and improved provider satisfaction are the focus of Hospitals today. This summit provided Hospital Executives key insights into the future of Robotic Assisted Surgery and the content shared demonstrated the ability to create a strategic Robotics Multidisciplinary Service Line that aligns with the Quadruple Aim. This program included best practices on using data to engage your surgeons and to build a robotic maturity model which can be used to analyze the success of your Robotics Program.
2019 Patient Financial Health Summit
This interactive Summit, customized for CEOs, CFOs, COOs, VPs of Revenue Cycle, VPs of Finance, and Heads of Innovation & Patient Experience included conversations around the patient billing & payment experience.
The Right Radiologist. The Right Read. The Right Time.
Sponsored by Envision Physician Services
Envision Physician Services’ distributed radiology model is an innovative approach that sets the standard for radiology services across the nation. Their services combine on-site radiology and a dedicated medical director with a comprehensive network of off-site subspecialists to increase the overall quality and efficiency of delivering patient-centric care at your facility.
A 5-Point Communication Strategy to Help Reduce Clinicians’ Cognitive Load
Sponsored by Vocera
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer in the U.S., and more than a quarter of a million occur each year. Communication problems are the most common root cause of medical errors, and clinician cognitive overload has also been correlated with them.
The Right Radiologist. The Right Read. The Right Time.
Sponsored by Envision Physician Services
Envision Physician Services’ distributed radiology model is an innovative approach that sets the standard for radiology services across the nation. Their services combine on-site radiology and a dedicated medical director with a comprehensive network of off-site subspecialists to increase the overall quality and efficiency of delivering patient-centric care at your facility.
Ohio’s Mercy Health Saves Almost $13M through Better Healthcare Technology Management
Sponsored by GE Healthcare
In 2018, Mercy Health combined with Bon Secours Health System to form Bon Secours Mercy Health, creating the fifth largest Catholic health system in the country. More than a year prior to this, Mercy Health began a journey to drive out inefficiencies and waste from the support services across their organization, including clinical asset maintenance. A service relationship with GE Healthcare served as the foundation to a broader, more comprehensive solution focused on the system’s entire equipment lifecycle and technology infrastructure. Core components of the new program were integrated asset management, governance and data quality. The first year of Mercy Health’s comprehensive HTM program yielded measurable success, delivering an annual operational savings of $12.9M.
Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™)
Sponsored by Health Catalyst
Healthcare data is notoriously difficult to access, and, more often than not, the data is inaccurate. The Health Catalyst® Data Operating System (DOS™) is a next-generation data warehouse and application development platform that provides access to complete, actionable healthcare data. DOS was designed to express the knowledge of all healthcare data to enable truly informed decisions by patients and clinicians.
It’s time to go beyond the portal
Sponsored by Allscripts
Sometimes, healthcare can leave patients feeling helpless or that they don’t have control. What if you could change that? What if you could help your patients stay connected to their health plan? Stay on track to reach their health goals? With FollowMyHealth®, you can meet your patients where they are—literally. From the mobile devices they already use, FollowMyHealth keeps patients engaged and delivers them important information they need, on demand and specific to their needs. Empower your patients to be active members of their own care team. It’s time to go beyond the portal.
A trusted, enterprise communication platform improved our teamwork and patient care
Sponsored by Vocera
Every second counts when a patient is waiting in the emergency department or admitted to the hospital. So, when clinicians can connect quickly and coordinate care faster, every minute saved brings patients closer to the care they need and closer to going home. Efficient and effective communication is critical for us at South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, one of five trusts in Northern Ireland. During a hospital stay, 10 minutes saved here, and 10 minutes saved there can add up to one bed-day saved.
Patient Care Affordability Summit
Sponsored by Infor
Becker’s Hospital Review and Infor hosted an exclusive summit during the Becker’s 7th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable Conference. This event allowed Summit attendees and industry thought leaders from Infor and 4sight Health to discuss the shift toward value-base reimbursement models and plans to determine the true costs associated with the activities required to deliver quality care to patients.
Patient Payment and Engagement Summit
Sponsored by Cedar.
Becker’s Hospital Review and Cedar, the data-driven platform that simplifies the healthcare experience for patients, hosted an exclusive summit during the Becker’s Health IT + Revenue Cycle Conference. Cedar co-founders, industry experts and top executives across the provider space came together to discuss how we can transform the patient financial experience to resolve payment challenges.
Caring Means Putting People First
Sponsored by LHC Group.
At LHC Group, people are more than their medical conditions. Belinda’s mother needed specialized care after a stroke left her unable to speak or move her limbs. Home health was instrumental in helping her regain strength and start on the path to recovery. Her speech therapist was trained in the latest cutting-edge techniques, and always greeted her with a big smile. LHC Group’s home health professionals know – it’s all about helping people. That means knowing each patient we serve, understanding their needs, and tailoring healthcare to ensure a quality experience and the best possible outcome.
Operationalizing Population Health Management
Sponsored by Allscripts.
The nature of healthcare organizations’ goals is both clinical and operational. From facilitating smooth, effective transitions of care to preventing avoidable readmissions, organizations face many challenges that could hinder their ability to receive the benefits of population health management. Meeting these goals and gaining the benefits depends heavily on organizations’ ability to deploy the right IT strategy. It’s critical for key information to flow freely throughout the healthcare ecosystem so clinicians have the data they need—at the point of care—for better care delivery.
How University of Utah Health Provides Care Without Compromise
University of Utah Health Care’s (UUHC) IT and telecommunications teams were becoming overwhelmed with requests; many of their 1,300 physicians wanted to communicate with one another via their smartphones. In response, UUHC implemented a basic SMS-based communication system and saw tremendous results.
Reimbursement across the patient episodic care journey
To tackle value-based care, organizations must have complex analytical systems in place to track and manage patients and patient populations, as well as to understand who contributed to care and the quality of that care.
Patient as a payer is here – Is your hospital ready to prioritize financial health?
It’s no secret patients are facing higher out-of-pocket costs and demanding flexible, user-friendly financing options. Patient financing in healthcare has never been more ripe for consumer-centered innovation.
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Health System Adopts Epic’s Machine Learning Platform Powered by Microsoft Azure
Sponsored by Microsoft.
Louisiana’s largest health system, Ochsner Health System, used advanced machine learning algorithms to create a predictive model leveraging Epic’s machine learning platform powered by Microsoft Azure to accurately predict patient deterioration hours before an adverse event.
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How Peninsula Regional Medical Center reduced code blue rate by 70%
Sponsored by Spok.
As the only Level III Trauma Center along the eastern shore and with more than 21,000 admissions and 95,000 ED visits annually, Peninsula Regional Medical Center (PRMC) care teams are coordinating around the clock.
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Efficient Care Team Communication Improves Patient Safety and Experience
Sponsored by Vocera Communications.
Halifax Health simplifies workflows with secure texting and hands-free communication.
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MACRA – What healthcare executives need to know
Sponsored by Cardinal Health.
Physicians aren’t alone in their challenges with MACRA. Becker’s Healthcare also reported that more than a third of health systems are unprepared for MACRA’s changes.
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UUHC’s IT and telecommunications teams were becoming overwhelmed with requests; many of their 1,300 physicians wanted to communicate with one another via their smartphones