Whitepapers & E-Books
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This report outlines a clear strategy healthcare organizations can implement to improve patients' financial literacy and retain them amid an increasingly competitive marketplace.
You'll learn:
- Ways to lead with open and honest communication to provide compassionate financial care
- Strategies to create better connections with patients
- How to improve patients' knowledge about payments

Based on increasing revenue cycle work and a shortage of skilled workers, it is impossible to hire enough people or ask current employees to work harder.
It’s time to work smarter, not harder. What does working smarter in the revenue cycle mean? It means finding innovative ways to do more with less.
Download for best practices on:
- Developing a smarter revenue cycle and administrative strategy
- Cutting down on outdated manual processes
- Streamlining existing processes with intelligent automation

Key findings examined in the white paper include:
- New porous PEEK technology produced higher osseointegration capability when compared to solid PEEK, solid titanium and porous titanium in cell culture.
- New technology possessed higher fusion and quality of fusion grades at 12- and 26-weeks post-op when compared to solid PEEK.
- New technology Proved to obtain new bone formation throughout porous structure.

To date, kidney care has focused on diagnosis and treatment. But 1 in 4 patients "crash" into dialysis, where dialysis must be initiated urgently with no opportunity for patients and providers to discuss treatment alternatives or make optimal decisions.
What’s needed is "crash prevention" by using predictive intelligence to identify patients likely to need future dialysis, leading to earlier intervention.
Download this white paper on The Kidney Care Paradigm Shift. It focuses on:
- Predicting & preventing advanced CKD
- Identifying at-risk patients earlier through predictive intelligence
- Benefits of avoiding emergent dialysis
Treating CKD is costly and inefficient, but doesn’t have to be. Discover a new paradigm that leverages predictive intelligence for earlier intervention.

Based on these challenges, a virtual care solution that only caters to the tech-savvy hoping to shed a few pounds isn't going to cut it. This report shares how a SDOH-attuned, virtual solution can offer your members access to:
- Personalized eating plans that fall within their budget and food accessibility
- Accessible, human-led care — even with limited access to technology
- Cognitive behavioral therapy-based coaching to address underlying causes
- Health literacy skills to sustain future success

Supply chain leaders have an urgent need to better understand product availability. To address these challenges, create more resilient supply chains and reduce product shortages, leaders don't need another dashboard. They need actionable data and insights.
A new white paper outlines three key strategies to increase supply chain visibility and decrease product shortages.
Key focus areas include:
- Leveraging the data in your ERP system
- Using a supply chain data model with prospective information
- Streamlining pharmacy operations
- How Renown Health is using data to reduce product shortages

This research report gathers perspectives from 150 healthcare leaders from providers, health plans and government agencies.
Key focus areas include:
- Workforce disruptions and their impact on performance
- Obstacles to workforce progress
- Keys to finding and keeping talent
- Top 5 qualities of a sustainable workforce
- Workforce investment priorities in 2023
- The role of partnerships
- How technology empowers a more human workforce
Leaders today are forced to make decisions without a playbook. Find out how C-suite leaders are responding to today’s workforce threats and are investing in a new path forward.

To achieve call center transformation, health systems need to pivot their focus from marginal improvement of agent efficiency to reducing the number of calls that agents need to manage. A digital front door, powered by intelligent automation, can address the reason for most calls upstream – freeing up staff capacity for higher-value and more meaningful work.
In this whitepaper, you will learn:
- Why the call center must be reimagined to meet today’s needs
- New approaches to optimizing patient access, while eliminating downstream work for staff
- Best practices for transforming the call center into a competitive differentiator that complements a world-class patient experience, including the highest ROI workflows to automate

These 10 must-read articles collectively examine healthcare's workforce crisis and offer insights into the kind of leadership necessary to nurture high-performing teams. Articles examine:
- Why healthcare employees are increasingly less engaged
- How six health systems are battling labor shortages
- The 15 states affected most, least by the "Great Resignation"

Read the case study to learn how using EngageCare self-service technology to transition administrative and financial tasks to patients helped Wayne improve patient safety, reduce no-shows and increase staff efficiency.
Download a copy of the case study to learn how Wayne:
- Reduced denials 80 percent
- Decreased no-shows and cancellations, saving revenue
- Reallocated staff and eliminated need to fill 5 vacant positions

But, 28 percent of health system human resources decision-makers say they are "very unfamiliar" with these networks.
It is time to close the gap of awareness and ensure that health system human resources decision-makers fully understand wrap networks, their costs and their benefits.
In this whitepaper, you will learn:
- The most important attributes of a wrap network
- Today's wrap network gaps and the opportunity for better solutions
- Opinions of out-of-network wraps from health system human resources decision makers' and provider-sponsored heath plan executives.

The crisis is pushing leaders to rethink long-term strategies related to training, education, recruitment and contingency planning. In the near-term, health systems must make immediate adjustments to staffing models and learn how to utilize new technology to better support care teams, especially in the operating room.
This e-book offers an inside look at how Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus and Methodist Healthcare System in San Antonio are leveraging an ecosystem of technology to alleviate staff burden and optimize OR performance.

At the Becker's Supply Chain Leadership Virtual Forum, six healthcare supply chain experts discussed their systems' supply chain transformation efforts and shared how supply chains can become a strategic asset when bolstered by the power of data, standardization and process efficiency. This report offers seven takeaways from the discussion.
Key learnings:
- How labor challenges are affecting supply chain teams
- Top priorities for healthcare supply chain leaders in 2022
- The key to successful supply chain transformations

Key Takeaways:
- Health systems can support medical device availability through optimized preventative maintenance schedules and standardized workflows.
- Dedicated monitoring and remediation of OEM-reported FDA alerts and recalls can minimize the potential impact on device availability and patient safety.
- Patient safety should be a key consideration throughout a health system's capital planning process

Results include:
- A coordinated experience across conditions for people living with both diabetes and hypertension Multiyear impact on clinical diabetes measures, including reduced HbA1c levels and a fewer hypoglycemic readings
- Measurable impact on systolic and diastolic blood pressure rates among those with uncontrolled hypertension
- Reduced spending incurred through medical care, emergency room visits and pharmacy costs associated with managing chronic conditions, resulting in a positive ROI

Learn how eight organizations across the country have used technology and collaboration to achieve the following:
- 61 percent reduction in opioid prescriptions
- 32 percent reduction in opioid deaths
- 50 percent decrease in emergency department visits for patients with high utilization patterns
- $34 million in cost savings
This downloadable whitepaper will cover:
- Four proven strategies for addressing the opioid epidemic on an organizational and community level
- Statewide efforts to reduce opioid prescribing and use, including implementation of seven best practices for prescription opioids
- How collaboration helped achieve measurable results outside opioids — including decreased ED visits and significant cost savings

So why is it so difficult to create a patient's "digital twin?"
In this insight brief, we explore some of the common obstacles to gathering, integrating and leveraging clinical data, such as:
- Siloed information within the EHR and between health IT systems
- Varied data accessibility
- Inadequate capture of detail or specificity
- Inconsistent data structure; and
- Variations in clinical terminology

This e-book highlights findings from Becker's-Teladoc Health's 6th annual telehealth benchmark survey, which elicited responses from healthcare CEOs, CFOs, virtual care leaders, directors, CIOs and other decision-makers about their organizations' stance on virtual care and plans for it going forward.
Key learnings include:
- What the survey findings reveal about the future of virtual care and health systems
- Some of the barriers holding back telehealth expansion and the resources healthcare organizations need to surmount those barriers
- How staffing models need to evolve to continue delivering the benefits of telehealth adoption amid persistent workforce shortages

However, with advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning and insights gleaned from other industries, hospitals and health systems are now better equipped than ever to more efficiently manage scarce resources.
This report outlines how health systems –including Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health and Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health — are using technology to tackle staffing shortages and optimize capacity and resources management, resulting in:
- Increased access to care for patients
- Higher revenues for provider organizations
- Improved clinician satisfaction

With the help of Tecsys’ Elite™ Healthcare POU technology, Sanford Health has automated and systemized data capture, closed the data loop on preference card picking cycles, eliminated redundant processes and driven down on-hand inventory value.
This success story documents their journey at each step of the way.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand how an ongoing commitment to continuous improvement can increase cost savings, drive operational efficiency and reduce waste.
- Measure inventory performance with accurate analytics and analyze real-time data using the right technology.
- Identify the financial impact of unused materials resulting from out-of-date surgeon preference cards.

Technology can enable health plans to deliver true omni-channel engagement. In this new white paper, discover how leading plans are leveraging data and technology to turbocharge the member experience, transform member interactions and boost engagement.
Download to learn how health plans can:
- Create a holistic view of members, leading to personalization
- Use data for insights and to drive action
- Build greater trust with members
- Turbocharge the contact center and transform the member experience
- Overcome barriers to technology adoption

Maintaining, growing and securing on-premises data storage presents major challenges for hospitals and health systems in such an environment. This white paper examines why cloud storage and computing will become essential supports for hospitals and health systems keen to make the most of medical imaging technology advancements.
In this eBook, you will learn:
- How health systems are reaping the benefits of cloud technology for medical imaging
- The four pillars for optimized medical imaging data use and storage

A lack of access, ease, empathy, and partnership have real impacts on individual and
organizational wellbeing. Addressing these issues will require healthcare leaders to
listen, understand, and act. In other words, to adopt a holistic approach to empathy.
The reasons to operationalize empathy at scale are compelling. Not only is it the moral
approach, it makes business sense. Organizations across industries have seen
improved financial performance, increased patient and employee satisfaction, higher net
promoter scores…etc.. With so much at stake, empathy in healthcare is imperative.
In this guide you’ll learn:
- The cost of empathy deficiencies – and how to avoid them
- Three ways to foster human-centred experiences throughout your organization
- How to leverage real-time data, closed-loop processes, and AI to modernize your experience programs

As hospitals and health systems navigate these events, their primary goal of improving patients' health remains unchanged. Organizations must keep downtime to an absolute minimum and ensure continuity of care.
Becker's Healthcare recently spoke with Hector Rodriguez, executive security advisor, WWPS health and life sciences at AWS, about how enterprise resilience and immutable IT infrastructures can reduce risks for patients and organizations.
Download this brief report to learn:
- How enterprise resilience protects patient safety and cuts costly organizational downtime
- What enterprise resilience plans should cover & key considerations for where to focus initial efforts
- The value of immutable IT infrastructures & how employee training fits into enterprise resilience

See how these leaders are improving their teams' workloads and quality of life while making patient care more efficient.
Download the brief to see the strategies and tactics healthcare leaders are using to address:
- Repetitive tasks within EHR workflows
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Nursing shortage and the rising cost of contract staff
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Recent resignation and retirement trends

This three-page case study explains how the hospital improved ED processes for patients and clinicians with a combination of new tools and strategy.
Download the report to learn about:
- The hospital's three-step approach to managing high-risk patients
- How to prevent medication errors and readmissions among ED patients
- How to achieve greater staff satisfaction with technology

Health plans are overwhelmed by fraudulent activity. Unfortunately, the pandemic opened the door for even more cybercriminals to find new schemes to submit improper, fraudulent claims.
Given the sheer volume, it’s impossible to pursue every instance of fraud. Health plans have launched special investigation units, with high-dollar cases as their top priority. While many lower-value cases fall by the wayside, these cases can have a broad impact on patients, quality of care and financial results.
A new white paper from Becker’s Hospital Review looks at the fraud landscape, drawbacks of current approaches to fight fraud and the role of AI in preventing fraud. This white paper details:
- The magnitude of fraud in healthcare
- Drawbacks of the rules-based approach used by many organizations
- Why leading healthcare organizations are turning to AI for data protection and fraud prevention
- Specific solutions that can reduce fraud, waste and abuse
Fraud in healthcare is only getting worse. Learn how your organization can use AI to more effectively manage this costly problem.

Learn how top healthcare organizations met these challenges with a new healthcare integration engine and experienced:
- 78 percent faster legacy interface conversion
- Deployment of 2,000 interfaces in less than two years
- Zero hours of unscheduled downtime
- Millions of dollars in savings

This eGuide will help you understand:
- The key concepts behind ML and common applications
- How it’s becoming more useful to people at all levels of organizations

Healthcare delivery is experiencing a profound transformation. And as hospital and health system leaders work to balance in-person and remote care while navigating crisis-level staffing shortages and integrating new technology solutions, they must not overlook one facet of healthcare that has long been ripe for improvement — the patient experience.
These 10 articles comprise actionable insights for hospital and health system leaders committed to delivering a better patient experience.
Articles headlines include:
- 5 leaders on their system’s most valuable patient experience strategy this year
- NewYork-Presbyterian CXO Rick Evans: Patient experience is rebounding, but our work is not over
- A powerful way to start a medical appointment? With non-medical questions

Innovative new technology solutions are rapidly turning the vision for connected healthcare into reality.
A new white paper from Becker’s Hospital Review looks at the current state of connected healthcare and details:
- The goals, promise and benefits of connected healthcare
- Opportunities for connected ecosystems to improve patient and provider experiences
- Barriers that must be addressed to achieve truly connected healthcare
- Tips for communicating with and engaging patients in using connected digital tools Learn the benefits to your organization and patients from realizing the vision of connected healthcare and discover what it will take to get there.

In this eBook from Keysight Technologies, you will discover
- How automation can improve workflow management to help physicians and patients alike
- How AI-driven test automation helps your EMR become more interoperable and user-friendly
- Six critical tasks that can be optimized with robotic process automation
- The importance of testing both on-site and wearable medical devices
Please fill out the form to download the eBook.

Fortunately, advances in artificial intelligence and automation can enable you to break out of the status quo and accelerate growth.
By using six strategies implemented at leading health systems across the country, you can harness these capabilities to improve operating room access, increase strategic case volumes and capture more market share.
In this whitepaper, learn how to:
- Boost operating room and resource utilization
- Automate manual work to reduce staff workload
- Drive immediate bottom-line improvements
- Optimize referrals and prevent leakage
- Improve surgeon satisfaction

Other asset-intensive industries like airlines or package delivery services face similar challenges. However, through sophisticated modeling and simulations, organizations in these industries can predict and match supply to demand with considerable accuracy. Every day, millions of packages are delivered on time and scores of travelers safely reach their destinations. The healthcare sector needs the same types of capacity-optimization tools.
These were the overarching themes that emerged during a hospital operations summit as part of Becker's Hospital Review's 12th Annual Meeting in Chicago. Dozens of hospital executives participated in the summit. This white paper is based on their conversations and includes specific learnings from:
- Rush University Medical Center in Chicago
- UCHealth in Aurora, Colo.
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tenn.

You'll learn:
- How changes in the VA influence Veteran benefits today
- Pitfalls that make it challenging to work with the VA
- Effective ways to capture reimbursement for services rendered to Veterans

But there are different reasons for pursuing RCM partnerships and very different approaches to partnership. Which approach and partners are best for your organization?
Here are insights from new research conducted with the Health Management Academy:
- 4 key reasons health systems pursue RCM partnerships
- 2 primary approaches to RCM partnership, and the key differences between them
- Factors to consider when vetting and evaluating RCM partnerships
- Why so many leading health systems are considering enterprise RCM partnerships
The key takeaway: RCM partnerships are necessary but they're not all alike. Understand the differences to make the best RCM decision for your health system.

To succeed, revenue cycle leaders need to transform the first interaction many patients have in their care experience into a competitive differentiator, manage ever-changing payer rules, and navigate an exacerbated workforce shortage. Leading health systems are automating front-end processes to eliminate back-end administrative burden – removing patient and staff hassles that compromise quality, impact reliability, and escalate cost.
In this whitepaper, you will learn:
- Why common approaches to revenue cycle improvement fall short
- The role of intelligent automation in strengthening the front end of revenue cycles with higher accuracy and faster payment, without additional headcount
- How a leading health system decreased authorization-related write-offs by 55% and saved nearly 3,000 staff hours

Enterprise resource planning software can increase efficiency by providing quick access to a wide range of information, which can also allow the organization to reduce its operational costs.
Explore how enterprise resource planning software can help decrease the need for manual tasks and save on overhead costs while still delivering quality care.
Key takeaways:
- Defining healthcare finance KPIs
- The importance of tracking healthcare finance KPIs
- The challenges of legacy software in healthcare

KeyBank and Cain Brothers are helping healthcare organizations remain flexible and agile. Hear from three industry leaders to learn how your organization can be prepared for upcoming challenges.
- Agapito “Aga” Morgan, commercial healthcare leader, Key Corporate and Commercial Bank
- Dave Morlock, managing director, head of health systems practice, Cain Brothers, a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets
- Kellen Williams, senior manager of business development, Laurel Road, a brand of KeyBank
In this whitepaper you will learn how:
- The healthcare landscape is expected to shift in the coming years
- Value-based care will reshape the industry
- Organizations can be forward-thinking in multiple dimensions

Patient financial obligation reached $491 billion in 2021, and the self-pay portion for patients with insurance now accounts for nearly 60 percent of bad debt. The standard model for patient payments is no longer sufficient.
This is why leading health systems like Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, St. Louis-based Ascension and Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare have embraced a bold new approach for patient payment and more effective revenue capture. This ebook highlights four ways to bolster patient engagement and drive a 40 percent increase in net-new cash.
In this ebook you'll learn:
- How health systems can achieve substantial returns with an integrated technology and services approach
- The components of a bold new patient payment model
- How to create a seamless patient experience that drives higher revenue performance

What can providers do?
Take proactive steps to find hidden insurance coverage among patients who present as self-pay. Results include increased collections from patients and payers, decreased bad debt and improved financials.
A new white paper contains insights on maximizing self-pay revenue through better coverage detection.
Key learnings in the whitepaper focus on:
- Why you’re missing billable insurance coverage
- The impact of missing or hidden coverage – which includes writing off bad debt
- 4 ways to find insurance for self-pay patients
- Selecting the right coverage detection technology to meet your organization’s needs
- How coverage detection works

Based on increasing revenue cycle work and a shortage of skilled workers, it is impossible to hire enough people or ask current employees to work harder.
It’s time to work smarter, not harder. What does working smarter in the revenue cycle mean? It means finding innovative ways to do more with less.
Download for best practices on:
- Developing a smarter revenue cycle and administrative strategy
- Cutting down on outdated manual processes
- Streamlining existing processes with intelligent automation

This whitepaper covers how to best support CFOs today, and how organizations can implement these five steps to improve financial health:

90 percent of respondents to a recent Becker’s/Multiview survey said data analysis is important to achieving their organization’s financial goals, yet only 25 percent have access to robust real-time information to drive better financial performance.
As a result, finance teams are often caught up doing time-consuming “Excel gymnastics.” Many finance teams are more focused on preparing financial statements or getting through audits than making data-driven decisions.
Gain insights from this recent survey among financial leaders which include:
- Why “liquid” data and real-time data are so important
- The unique challenges faced by finance teams at small hospitals
- Effective solutions that enable finance teams to make real-time, data-driven decisions
- Why vendor partnerships are key to data-driven decisions and increased operational efficiencies
Learn what it takes to go from manual, Excel-based processes to real-time, data-driven decisions.

Consumers, on the one hand, need increased support to understand their bills and figure out how to pay them. On the other hand, patients with more skin in the game are becoming more demanding about the quality of their customer experience.
These changes necessitate a new patient payment model that focuses on delivering convenience and clear communication to patients, driving both quicker payments and increased patient satisfaction.
Download this whitepaper to learn:
- The current state of patient collections, with data
- How to help patients take charge of their new responsibility
- How to identify hidden coverage
- How to increase the likelihood of quick, easy payment

Download the e-book to learn more about how health leaders can ready their organization for growth with forward-thinking strategies that include:
- Meeting the consumer on their terms
- Adapting to new competition
- The growing role of strategic partnerships
- Mastering the new indicators of growth
- Tracking the spend of the health care dollar

We asked physician management and healthcare organization leaders to share their strategies for overcoming the considerable challenges of this altered landscape. They offer 10 strategies for using data and analytics to better manage capacity, coordinate care and optimize revenues, including:
- Tracking real-time practice COVID-19 volumes
- Managing productivity and modifying physician incentive compensation
- Capturing charges efficiently and accurately at the point of care
- Improving throughput across the continuum
The white paper features expert views from:
- Dennis Deruelle, MD – Executive Director of Hospital Medicine, American Physician Partners
- Andrea Funk, RN, MEd, CPHQ – Vice President of Integrated Acute Care Operations, US Acute Care Solutions
- Derick D. Perkins – Founder and Managing Partner, Metis Advisors LLC

Before the arrival of COVID-19, specific environmental trends were challenging the healthcare industry, such as acquisitions of smaller health systems by larger health systems, clinician shortages and burnout. These trends had already created an urgent demand for clinical communication platforms (CCP) that would work securely across growing networks of diverse care provider organizations. The arrival of COVID-19 has applied untold new pressures to already strained systems.
In this white paper, you will learn about:
- The impact and cost of COVID-19 on healthcare
- How clinical collaboration platforms improved communication during COVID-19
- Where you will see cost savings from leveraging clinical collaboration platforms
- What to look for in a clinical collaboration platform in order to achieve savings
- How clinical collaboration platforms can help your organization increase efficiency and achieve return on investment

In this whitepaper, Quest Diagnostics outlines the benefits of TB blood tests, including cost-savings, patient experience and more.
Key learning points:
- How TB blood tests reduce patient visits
- The objective, accurate results provided by blood tests
- How blood tests yield cost savings for both patients and providers

This whitepaper summarizes five clinical studies that reveal how the KangarooTM feed/flush pumps with automatic flushing technology from Cardinal HealthTM are benefiting patients and hospitals.
Key learning points:
- Potential cost-savings from automated flushing
- The benefits of automated flushing vs. manual syringe flushing
- Solving for dehydration with automated flushing

Now, Gundersen is using an AI solution to automatically transcribe data in its renewal requests. This solution cuts down on manual clicks and keystrokes that can lead to medication errors and contribute to clinician burnout.
Download to learn how Gundersen has used this AI solution to:
- Improve "clean sigs" by 202 percent
- Automatically import 84 percent of prescription renewal data
- Save 100 hours of clinician data entry time
- Improve safety and decrease risk of errors

To get to a place where patients feel the level of convenience in their healthcare experience is on par with what they're used to from other industries, organizations need to craft a strategy that offers digital front doors, digital practices and personalized experiences.
This whitepaper features insights from Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health and Oracle Cerner on:
- Overcoming barriers in implementing digital solutions
- The features of a strong digital front door
- The difference between digital front doors and digital practices
- Building organizational culture into digital transformation

Is your hospital and health system’s TB screening strategy up-to-date?
Learn how leading health systems are using TB blood tests for pre-employment screens in the hiring process and to prevent post-exposure contagion.
In this new white paper, discover how new testing provide hospitals and health systems with shorter test times and lower false-positivity rates.
Key takeaways:
- Latest CDC guidance on workplace TB testing
- Benefits of IGRAs vs. traditional TSTs
- Best practices for pre-employment TB screening & post-exposure testing

This white paper discusses seven ways that mobile technology improves the intake experience for patients, providers and staff, and demonstrates why healthcare organizations that employ a mobile-first intake strategy are well-positioned to succeed in a rapidly changing healthcare system.
Read the white paper to learn:
- How embracing mobile communication helps healthcare organizations improve patient satisfaction
- Why embracing a mobile-first patient intake strategy helps providers save time and boost staff efficiency
- Tips about how to use mobile technologies to deliver the convenience and flexibility patients expect

Unfortunately, outdated interfaces turn customers away, which means more work for providers and administrators.
Health systems must look beyond basic EHR forms and cookie-cutter processes to get patients on board. The user experience is what matters. Winning organizations are using consumer-grade tech solutions that patients can navigate easily. As a result, they’re seeing fewer no-shows and higher patient satisfaction.
How do health systems with limited resources create user-friendly experiences?
In a new whitepaper, we look at how three health systems leverage intelligent automation to save time and increase revenue. Discover ways to reduce workloads by building intelligent automation into your existing EHR system.
We share how intelligent automation is helping health systems achieve:
- 8 percent reduction in no-shows
- 74 percent digital conversion rate
- 51 percent increase in co-payment
- 96 percent patient satisfaction rating

Conway (Ark.) Regional Medical Center gained more visibility into patients' status and timely, accurate alerts by partnering with Wolters Kluwer. This led to big improvements in the hospital's SEP-1 compliance rates and cost savings.
Read this Sentri7® Sepsis Monitor case study to learn how Conway Regional is:
- Identifying patients with sepsis earlier with real-time alerts and reminders that guide care
- Improving SEP-1 bundle compliance by more than 20 percent over four months
- Achieved cumulative savings of $384,000 in the four months since adopting Sentri7® Sepsis Monitor

However, despite a collective commitment to do better, organizations have lacked the technological infrastructure to enable detecting and addressing these inequities.
To shine a light on the technological infrastructure that is needed, Becker's Hospital Review spoke with David Feinberg, MD, chairman of Oracle Health, and two Indiana University Health leaders — Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MD, vice president and chief equity officer, and Nichole Wilson, vice president for community health operations — about the technology solutions required to addressing health inequities.
This white paper examines the:
- Foundational technological infrastructure needed to make progress on inequities – including data platforms and frameworks
- Datasets and analytics capabilities organizations need
- Talent and human capabilities required to turn data into insights and action
Achieving health equity will take more than good intentions – it requires data and a technological underpinning. Discover the technology infrastructure needed to move the needle on health inequities.

- Amanda Loney, BScN, RN, wound, ostomy and continence consultant, Bayshore Home Care Solutions, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Abbé Benoit, BSN, RN, clinical resource specialist, Smith+Nephew
- How pain has a direct effect on the healing process
- How to determine when negative pressure wound therapy is appropriate
- How negative pressure wound therapy solutions can help to improve the patient experience
- How best practices can include use of both traditional and single use negative pressure wound therapy

Key points that readers will learn include:
- The clinical and financial impact of alarm fatigue and these adverse patient conditions
- How continuous clinical surveillance is different from patient monitoring and alarm management and focuses on mitigating non-clinically actionable alerts and notifications
- Published results that hospitals have achieved with continuous clinical surveillance

Through remote monitoring, orthodontists can detect and manage patient aligner emergencies and decrease the need for an in-person visit.
In this study, you will learn how remote monitoring can be used to benefit both patients and staff by cutting down on in-person appointments and getting patients the care they need in a timely manner.
Key learnings:
- How DentalMonitoring can help improve the remote detection and management of emergencies related to complex aligner treatments
- Understand potential impacts on practice efficiency regarding treatment control and appointment saving

One multispecialty DSO with more than 180 locations was able to save about $3 million annually by executing a strategic procurement initiative that drove savings towards their bottom line and increased ordering efficiencies among their practices in the process. This was all done while maintaining physicians' and clinicians' autonomy regarding clinically sensitive items they have access to.
Download the case study below to learn how SourceClub helped this multispecialty DSO save millions and achieve success

Regardless of how you built the processes in your DSO, MSO, or Group, DentalRobot provides a custom-fit automation solution that matches your current context and vision for operations and growth. We understand each specialty and its journey. We impact your organization's outcomes by rapidly automating every process from insurance verification or EOB posting to Accelerated Patient Scheduling or Customized Treatment Plan Follow-Ups.