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Reducing these administrative burdens to improve surgical care efficiency is a key opportunity for independent operators to stay competitive in their markets.
This white paper outlines five tips to decrease administrative burden and maximize surgical efficiency in orthopedic practices based on expert insights from a panel at the Becker’s Annual Spine & Ortho Conference.
In 2020, providers made 238 million claim status inquiries by phone, fax or email. Most payers still limit the number of inquiries allowed per call, which means more calls, more work for staff and more time wasted. And that’s before adding in the time it takes to update claim statuses in practice management or hospital information systems.
New financial performance demands are forcing revenue cycle, financial services and billing professionals to reevaluate their approach to claim monitoring. To unlock the cost savings and smarter workflows they need, it’s critical to deploy tech and tools that can easily automates the process. And not just any tech—you’ll need solutions efficient and flexible enough to meet the unique needs of your organization.
This whitepaper breaks down the most effective strategy for achieving smarter claim monitoring and shows you how to navigate the challenges you’ll face along the way.
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The leadership team at the Beaverton-based Oregon Surgical Institute and their JV partner, Regent Surgical Health, anticipated the future back in 2016 and embraced what at the time might have been considered a risky and uncertain strategy. Ever since, OSI has been making good on its bet.
This whitepaper provides a look into OSI's total joint journey. Learnings include:
This study reveals how advancements in nano-surface technology on spinal interbody devices influenced a reduction in the postoperative opioid usage when comparing the same implant design with and without Nanotechnology.
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Click here to find out how NorthStar Anesthesia transformed the health system's preoperative processes and improved patient experience, from the leading physician anesthesiologist’s perspective.
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Quick and effective antibiotic therapy in patients with sepsis can reduce the risk of death 8 percent per hour. Achieving both timely and optimal therapy hinges on a single variable — the speed at which organism identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing is produced by the clinical microbiology laboratory.
This whitepaper outlines how five health systems improved antibiotic stewardship metrics for patients with bloodstream infections and decreased length of stay by one day using rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing.
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National findings from the American Medical Association's recent survey of more than 1,000 residents illustrates the key stressors of today's residents and fellows. Download the summary report to learn more about these insights and discover organizational well-being resources available through the AMA Health System Program.
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Tactically deploying newer cleaning technology that supplements established methods, can assist in the task of keeping an ultra clean healthcare facility.
Download the whitepaper to learn how Disinfection Done Right (DDR) helps implement a clever adjunctive method that is safe, requires little-to-no down time, minimal human involvement, and relatively minimal investment for air and surface pathogen reduction in hospitals, surgery centers, nursing homes, and medical offices.
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This whitepaper explains how the ED improved the processes and tools used to gather a patient’s medication history to address these major sources of organizational pain.
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During a session at the Becker's Hospital Review 9th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable in November, Pat Basu, MD, president and CEO of Boca Raton, Fla.-based Cancer Treatment Centers of America, and Alberto Casellas, executive vice president and CEO of CareCredit, shared observations about current financial challenges in healthcare and the importance of making the patient payment experience more modern, frictionless and user friendly.
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This white paper outlines patients' and physicians' biggest pain points in primary care — based on a recent survey from MDVIP — and how health systems can address them through innovative primary care models.
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Increased patient loads combined with clinician burnout and severe supply chain disruption can erode your culture of safety for routine procedures, such as injections.
The Cardinal Health Monoject Sharps Safety product division, in collaboration with Becker’s, have created an eBook depository of articles to raise awareness and provide actionable insights to enhance the culture of safety within your facility during the pandemic, despite ongoing labor shortages and vaccination administration.
Cardinal Health strives to be an industry leader and trusted partner committed to proactively delivering education and awareness as it relates to promoting a culture of safety.
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North American Partners in Anesthesia worked with Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed Health to develop the nation's first ERAS cardiac program. In one year, the groundbreaking protocol has increased patient and surgeon satisfaction and saved the hospital nearly $2 million. Superior clinical outcomes achieved with the program also earned WakeMed Heart & Vascular the number one ranking in CMS' national outcomes listing for heart bypass surgery, and designation as the first U.S. ERAS Cardiac Center of Excellence.
This case study describes how NAPA's anesthesia leadership at WakeMed drove the clinical research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and education that inspired 100 percent participation by the medical staff and more.
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This report offers insights on the clinical and financial benefits of early reporting, based on an analysis of more than 31,000 national malpractice claims.
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Read how AI-driven CAPD solutions helped healthcare organizations, including Ardent Health Services and Halifax Health:
Arcadia worked with the COVID-19 Patient Recovery Alliance to analyze a massive real-world data set to identify potential drivers of the wide range of symptoms that make up long COVID-19.
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Find out how ServiceNow® can help provide the connectivity and flexibility providers need to improve patient experiences from end-to-end, work efficiently, and securely leverage data to create value.
Although it might seem counterintuitive to solve technology struggles with more technology, sometimes it’s exactly the right fix. For example, tools that can help organize the problem list or make it easier to find pertinent patient information can enhance the EHR and decrease the amount of time spent clicking around in search of the right data.
So, what are some solutions that can help? Download IMO's latest eBook, "An unlikely remedy: How technology can alleviate the clinician HIT burden" to learn more.
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In September 2021, Press Ganey surveyed 1,000+ consumers to unlock insights into how they approach their journey to care. The findings provide a roadmap for accelerating digital transformation in 2022 and converting more care seekers into happy, loyal patients.
See how organizations across the United States and United Kingdom have used this approach to achieve measurable results and fuel a commitment to improvement that never stops. Highlights include:
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Develop a strategy for getting shared devices to nurses and equip them with the tools needed for today’s healthcare organizations.
Many factors contribute to readmissions, but a common thread among them is the increasing complexity of healthcare. Providers are taking on additional patients. At the same time, documentation requirements are growing, as is the need to interact with more systems and tools. The average health system has multiple different EHR systems in place across their network.
The result is cumbersome data integration and access, which creates care coordination challenges.
Many readmissions occur when patients move between care settings. Given the fragmented healthcare landscape, information can fall through the cracks, leading to suboptimal care transitions that put patients at risk.
But readmissions can be reduced by using the right care coordination tools that enable real-time data sharing and care collaboration.
The solution lies in the adoption of technology and processes that help providers at the point of care make safe and appropriate treatment decisions while providing meaningful insights to care managers monitoring patients across the continuum.
During the 2021 Precision Health Virtual Summit, a diverse group of thought leaders from health systems, providers, payers, employers, universities and start-ups reflected on the core lessons they've learned on their journey to precision health. Organizations represented at the summit included Cleveland Clinic, Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger and Danbury, Conn.-based Nuvance Health.
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Halting HAPIs in American hospitals demands attention. Recent reports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality indicate that the incidence of many hospital-acquired conditions is falling. However, pressure injuries rates continue to rise despite being a top priority for health systems.
A recent survey conducted by Frost and Sullivan was designed to better understand the persistent rise of pressure injuries and examine potential solutions to the problem.
This report is based on those survey findings and in-depth interviews with 20 healthcare professionals.
This new C-suite toolkit includes role specific, actionable guides with steps to help CEO’s, CFO’s, and CMO’s better understand the strategic, financial, and clinical implications of implementing health equity initiatives including:
In this guide, discover how to empower your clinical staff to:
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While multimodal pain programs attempt to reduce opioids, their “one size fits all” approach is inefficient for physicians and may cause sentinel events or adverse side effects that prolong a patient’s recovery.
This case study describes how a new inpatient pain management protocol using pre-defined patient risk categories yields meaningful clinical, operational, and financial
results.
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Now, it's essential for organizations to take protective steps to diversify their PPE supply chain and mitigate the risk of potential disruptions in the future.
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Clinical confidence may be the antidote to clinical burnout. The team at Philips aims to design technologies that increase clinical confidence by providing correct and complete information, as well as support caregiver collaboration.
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Data was collected prospectively before the use of NAVIFY® Tumor Board (phase 1) through stable integration with the platform (phase 4). Data was collected across the breast, GI, hematopathology and ENT tumor boards looking at the following user groups across the institution: nurse navigators, pathology residents, radiologists and geneticists.
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To better understand what this shift means for healthcare supply chains, Becker's and Cardinal Health surveyed 100 C-suite and supply chain leaders from health systems nationwide in the first quarter of 2021. This research report outlines five key takeaways that emerged from leaders' responses.
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By augmenting patient care with technology services, healthcare providers can focus on treating their patients and rely on outside experts to provide reliable communication assistance and cultural brokerage.
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But many questions remain. In this report, Optum surveyed more than 161 health care leaders from health plans, providers and life sciences and asked:
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As our country’s healthcare labor shortage looms, the need to ensure the safety of residents of all states has never been more acute.
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In this E-Book, you’ll learn five key trends affecting how providers give care and gain an understanding of how technology is turning passive purchasers into active healthcare consumers.
This E-Book explores the benefits of:
The number of companies providing remote care software and services continues to grow, leaving hospitals with a myriad of options to consider as they navigate delivering acute care in the home. An AI-powered, FDA-cleared analytics engine capable of predicting clinical exacerbation is one platform component that many providers see as critical to effective remote patient management.
This insightful report outlines key success factors in developing a hospital at home program as well as how artificial intelligence and machine learning is accelerating the expansion of these programs.
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We put together this whitepaper to guide you through that process. It addresses:
Whether you’re revamping your existing program or building one from the ground up, these insights can help you successfully go through this process and alleviate pressure on your EDs.
In this whitepaper, two health systems share how they leveraged Cerner and Amwell's strategic collaboration to bring telehealth and the EHR together. At Fisher-Titus Medical Center in Norwalk, Ohio, embedding telehealth in the EHR helped the health system develop a virtual rooming process that strives to replicate the in-person care experience for its providers. University of Tennessee Medical Center recognized that an app-based program required separate patient logins. To circumvent this issue, in collaboration with Cerner and Amwell, UTMC implemented the embedded solution to streamline the patient experience — part of which included invites coming from text or email without additional app downloads or logins.
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There are some unique interoperability considerations for orthopedic practices, so practices must take care to ensure they are choosing the right solutions. Download this article to learn the four interoperability keys for orthopedics.
In this article you'll learn why orthopedic interoperability workflows must consider:
Discover how Midwest Health System transformed their care management strategy with Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring, centralized 24/7 care management teams, and streamlined workflows to reach more patients, faster, and with less resources. Over 35,000 patients participated and claims analyses showed a total medical cost reduction of over $30 million.
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When bolting on additional technologies, it becomes nearly impossible to serve as a single point of data-based truth to the organization. With a properly implemented EHR, hospitals will see clearly defined performance and insights that facilitate better, faster decisions in the organization, compared to the lengthy process of compilation, validation and data debate.
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But there’s a big difference between “cloud-based” and “cloud-native” platforms. For most healthcare organizations, a cloud-native solution provides superior benefits over tactics such as managed services or lift-and-shift to the cloud.
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Every competitive organization is on a mission to eliminate grunt work for their people. Onboarding, offboarding, name updates, user management and more: Most healthcare IT service desks spin their wheels when dealing with these procedural, repetitive tasks. Fortunately, it doesn’t need to stay this way.
A recent market study from InformationWeek and TeamDynamix took a pulse on the challenges and priorities IT professionals face right now, finding:
Only 8% of organizations operate with a level of maturity where their IT service management technology is fully optimized
The heavy reliance on IT to administer IT service management systems tops all challenges
A lack of automation was the second most challenge burdening teams, which was named by 41% of organizations
36% of organizations said one of their biggest challenges was in integration and workflow management.
Download this market study to read the full market report, benchmark against your peers, and to gain insight into how you can eliminate grunt work and reduce resource drain.
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Until now, disparate, and disconnected data created operational blind spots making cost control and efficiency unattainable.
If you want to reduce waste and recover resources, gaining 360-degree visibility is a good place to start. Software can help:
PINC AITM intelligence engine is a technology and services platform that leverages artificial intelligence, natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to produce evidence-based insights at the point of care. Premier's value-based care focuses on improving healthcare quality through technology tools, while PINC AITM's margin-improvement solutions find and eliminate unnecessary spending, waste and inefficiencies.
With PINC AITM, organizations face a more stable future through the optimization of data, technology, services and scale. Premier understands healthcare and has the tools, data and innovation to power the significant changes health systems need. PINC AITM solutions enable multiple technologies to work together to optimize performance and accelerate healthcare innovation.
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Download the whitepaper to learn more about these insights and the benefits of symptom checkers and triage tools for patients, providers and healthcare organizations.
The analyzed data and expert comments were compiled by Infermedica.
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This whitepaper will explain how the right safety and security management software can help healthcare organizations meet compliance standards and create a safer workplace.
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In December 2021, a diverse group of healthcare leaders from across the country met virtually at the Transform: Hospital Operations Virtual Summit to discuss how they are weathering the current storm by using technology to enhance capacity, streamline operations and provide outstanding care to patients.
This whitepaper offers key insights and best practices for these transformation efforts from leaders at Novant Health, Yale New Haven Health and Banner | Aetna. Learnings include:
This report outlines five key actions healthcare leaders must take to end the call center in its current form.
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The size and complexity of healthcare facilities often make it easy to lose organizational control over workflows, but location data can solve that for any facility.
Real Time Location Services and the Internet of Things (IoT) are powerful technologies enabling healthcare organizations to achieve new levels of operational efficiency while also improving the patient experience and clinical outcomes.
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The pandemic sped up the timeline.
Now, the most proactive healthcare organizations are exploring initiatives to mitigate the effects of a growing labor shortage. Learn how central video monitoring enabled "virtual nurses" to support bedside nurses and uphold high standards of patient care amid a COVID-19 surge across Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System.
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Many physicians have begun using virtual medical documentation specialists (MDS) in both hospitals and health systems as well as group practices. More than a scribe, an MDS is a tech-enabled assistant to the physician or nurse, leveraging automation technologies to capture real-time patient-provider conversations and convert them into precise medical documentation with appropriate context. Imagine how happy physicians could be if the documentation burden reduce time in the EHR and help manage:
The emergence (and resurgence) of technology solutions — such as EHRs, telehealth and digital front doors to — helped deliver necessary support to an industry in crisis.
These 10 must-read Becker's articles offer a look into this unprecedented transformation. Readings include:
Now is a pivotal moment for improving critical access management, which is a vital step in
monitoring and securing third-party access. In this white paper, you’ll not only learn why the risk posed by third parties is particularly high, but also how to protect your organization’s data.
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At the center of every hectic hospital emergency department are patients and their families, simply wanting to know what's going on. While caregivers do their best to provide new information as rapidly as possible, this can be a challenge.
Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital is working to improve communication and patient experience in the ED via the use of digital patient whiteboards. In a recent study conducted by the hospital, 96 percent of participants preferred a room with a digital whiteboard, saying that it improved communication throughout their stay and left them feeling more knowledgeable about what to do post-discharge.
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In recent years, multiple incidents at healthcare organizations have shown that ransomware attacks can bring down systems, interfere with patient care, damage reputation and interrupt the revenue earning capability of an organization.
Forward-thinking leaders understand that taking cyber risk into account when making investments and setting strategies is the most successful path to using data and technology in their healthcare business.
Cyber Risk is Everywhere, Make Sure it’s Part of Your Healthcare Business Strategy provides valuable context and detailed insights to help your organization:
Stagnant compliance budgets aren’t just a barrier to effective regulatory management, they can also pose regulatory risks. To ensure programs receive full leadership support and adequate resources, healthcare organizations must understand the value of their compliance programs in terms of return on investment.
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Enterprise-wide provider scheduling can help optimize your workforce, improve healthcare operations, drive efficiency and ROI, and increase provider satisfaction. Understand essential use cases for enterprise resource scheduling software and learn the key questions you should ask when considering technology vendors.
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A growing number of hospitals are evaluating the advantages of IT outsourcing as they look to ease financial pressures and free up internal resources while maintaining quality patient care.
This white paper highlights the benefits of an IT partner that offers speed, agility and flexibility, much like David exhibited when battling Goliath.
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Gain access to all the insights in the 2021 special report, and see why an overwhelming 98 percent of healthcare leaders say their organization either has or is planning to implement an AI strategy.
Get experts’ perspectives on how AI can deliver practical benefits, including:
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for greater interoperability in healthcare. The nation’s pandemic response required health systems, labs, public health entities and payers to share information rapidly. These efforts were effective to a degree, but in many swaths of the country, the public health information technology infrastructure fell short.
During a virtual roundtable at Becker's Sixth Annual Health IT + RCM conference, three revenue cycle experts attempted to answer that question. Download this 5-point report to get a breakdown of their insights.
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This whitepaper describes how typical approaches to prior authorization fall short and why intelligent automation enables revenue cycle leaders to address this challenge at scale.
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Through this white paper, we examine the Fidelum Partners research that explores the awareness, perceived value, and use of medical device management services by healthcare executives.
In a 2021 Healthcare Industry Trends Survey of more than 1,300 healthcare organizations, 61 percent of respondents said they still use paper fax to transmit patient data. More surprising is that 56 percent of them believe fax will remain a valuable, or even dominant communication method over the next 5 years.
While paper fax won't disappear overnight, once converted into digital documents, technologies can be applied to provide meaningful, analytics-ready data, which can then be submitted into an EHR and consumed within an efficient workflow, supporting true interoperability.
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Cybernetics forms a communication loop between humans and technology to elevate the work of healthcare professionals. Executives from systems around the country told Olive and Becker's Healthcare that tapping these technologies unlocks a path to a human-centric approach that uses cybernetics to enhance jobs, not eliminate them.
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By downloading this ebook, you’ll learn how automation can improve the healthcare revenue cycle. The ebook contains six must-reads that explain how automation can cut waste and which AI-driven tools are best for your organization.
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It’s time to open the door for care built for consumers.
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The clerical burden associated with clinical documentation often falls too heavily on individual physicians tasked with accurately documenting conditions at the point of care. This documentation occurs in the EHR, requires time and attention, and can undermine the human element of care delivery as clinicians’ focus is pulled away from the patient in front them toward a digital screen.
This white paper exams the current medical coding landscape and offers insights into how technology can simplify coding complexity.
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Consequently, care facilities are now prioritizing tech-based solutions.
In particular, artificial intelligence can be applied to the video recordings taken in most hospital patient rooms to better categorize alarms related to movement in those rooms. AI-assisted Augmented Video Analysis (AVA) systems can provide additional information and data to hospital decision-makers, resulting in more accurate warnings and alerts, among other benefits.
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Our analysis examines the challenges and available solutions in leveraging data analytics and business intelligence for three main organizational domains: Clinical, Operational/IT, and Administrative/Executive.
This case study covers how the health system:
We researched these emerging digital disruptors and analyzed them for the breadth of their offerings and presence in the consumer and/or business marketplace.
As leaders, you want to make the right decisions to secure your place in the competitive landscape regionally and globally. Achieving that level of digital dexterity provides an opportunity to delight customers and achieve provider objectives. In so doing, you’ll achieve your organization’s goals for market leadership, differentiation, clinical revenue and margin.
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The appointment workflow of old can't support the needs of today's patients and health systems. Download this guide to learn how to optimize patient appointments.
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This white paper outlines the opportunity for acute and post-acute care providers to leverage interventional analytics to risk-stratify patients, standardize care and embed best practices across the
network.
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This landscape leaves plenty of questions to be answered: How should healthcare organizations approach digital transformation? What should they consider when designing a next-generation consumer experience? How will they drive engagement? And how can they do it quickly?
Download this whitepaper for a closer look at why data normalization is needed, the downstream impact of data loss in healthcare, and how adding a robust terminology layer to the process can help solve data quality problems before they even arise.
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It's also elevating the efficiency and effectiveness of the workforce.
No, AI is not replacing humans. But it is easing administrative burdens and allowing staff to tackle higher-value work and collaborate with teams and patients.
What once was an option for convenience soon became a necessity, and the entire spectrum of healthcare has been affected. From adopting the technology platforms to strengthen virtual care best practices, to embracing clinicians’ “webside” manner, telehealth is calling for a new path forward and it is going to be increasingly important for all members of the healthcare industry to remain open and innovative in the face of these new challenges.
In this whitepaper, industry experts illuminate key components of adopting and deploying a telehealth strategy in the face of COVID-19, a strategy that will also reach patients where they are and deliver the care they expect as consumers. Regardless of how we combat the pandemic, telehealth has already proven to be a vital piece of many organizations’ care delivery models, and this whitepaper lays out how to develop the best strategy for achieving success in this new world of healthcare.
To support infection prevention efforts, the industry is now beginning to leverage tech to reduce the room for error. How? By adding in automated pathogen reduction technology as a supplement to existing cleaning protocols.
This whitepaper shares best practices for using automation and AI to increase telehealth self-pay collections and reimbursements and streamline manual virtual visit workflows, all while providing a delightful experience for patients.
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This whitepaper shares strategies and best practices from automation technology adopters like Intermountain Healthcare on maximizing ROI across patient, clinical, and RCM workflow automation.
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This quick-read report lays it out. It covers:
Over that time, they learned that integration between Interlace Health and Meditech is crucial to KDMC as the health system strives to eliminate human error, standardize processes, and accelerate consent completion.
While paper consents get lost or must be carried around in a paper chart until they are scanned into the EHR, Interlace Health’s eConsent forms are instantly archived into Meditech.
With Interlace Health, KDMC has decreased forms by 60 percent and now has more meaningful interactions with patients.
Emerging remote monitoring solutions are taking patient engagement to the next level while increasing provider access to essential clinical information.
These 9 must-reads examine the regulatory environment, emerging monitoring solutions and what hospital innovation chiefs want from health IT.
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Read this whitepaper to learn about the challenges uncovered in the recent HIMSS survey and how to address them including:
• What stands in the way of HIT interoperability success
• How to bridge interoperability gaps surfaced by the pandemic
• Solutions for healthcare content and images that improve interoperability
This whitepaper summarizes key findings from several of those studies, such as:
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In this white paper, you’ll learn how to integrate technology and equipment with the physical environment by:
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Fortunately, there is an innovative platform that integrates the complete implant lifecycle and provides enterprise analytics. The platform’s increased supply chain visibility can help hospitals and health systems enhance patient safety, regulatory compliance and operational efficiency while improving the economics of healthcare.
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The good news is that organizations that champion behavioral health integration — or BHI — can accomplish both goals.
In this new report from NeuroFlow, you’ll learn how tech-enabled BHI — or tBHI — can help your organization:
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During a February advisory call hosted by Becker's Dental + DSO Review, a group of DSO leaders — including several CEOs — discussed current pain points related to patient financing and potential solutions. This article contains five key takeaways from the conversation.
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Proper reimbursement depends on appropriate documentation and reporting.
AMN Healthcare Revenue Cycle Solutions delivers significant benefits. When AMN Healthcare partners with trauma centers, it leverages optimal reimbursement necessary for financial stability. A positive financial impact from a successful billing program can transform a trauma service from a cost center into a revenue generator.
This Allscripts whitepaper explores topics including:
Frequently mentioned is the idea that technology can help health systems operate more effectively and efficiently in this climate. One technology receiving a great deal of attention is robotic process automation (RPA).
To learn more about the adoption and use of RPA in the revenue cycle, Becker's Healthcare conducted a survey in November and December 2021 among U.S. health system leaders. This survey looked at adoption of RPA in the revenue cycle, how RPA is being used, expected benefits, expected ROI and considerations when selecting vendors and software solutions.
With about half of survey respondents having adopted RPA within their revenue cycle, RPA has progressed beyond the early adopters to the mainstream.
While finding the organizational resources and bandwidth to implement RPA will be challenging, the benefits and ROI likely provide a compelling business case.
During a Becker’s Hospital Review advisory call in December, VisitPay, an R1 company, hosted a session to explore the changing patient financial engagement landscape and what consumers perceive as a successful billing experience. This ebook details six key takeaways from that call.
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From this report, you will gain insight into the following key trends (and more):
Access our study to learn more about what financial executives, like yourself, are challenged with and how they are responding.
The takeaway? There has never been a more important time to modernize your patient payments workflows.
This whitepaper outlines the best practices and strategies to improve payment processes, increase front-end collections and give patients the modern, convenient financial experience they want.
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14 must-read articles on emerging challenges and opportunities
The last two years have challenged hospitals and health systems in unprecedented ways. Revenue cycle leaders have overseen shifts to a remote workforce, navigated staffing shortages, managed billing and collections in the face of mounting financial pressures, and adapted to changing patient expectations and rising consumerism. Leaders have achieved varying degrees of success amid this vast disruption and uncertainty. Now, they must look to the future and prepare for what's next.
This collection of articles explores the most consequential revenue cycle trends, challenges, and opportunities for the new year. Topics include process optimization through automation, what finance leaders need to know about recent CMS actions, financial benchmarks necessary to sharpen RCM, and more.
Your journey to revenue cycle success in 2022 starts here.
This measurement will come in the form of having real-time and immediate financial data. And this will create an evolution that will help healthcare finance teams get out of the back seat and steer the strategic direction of a healthcare organization.
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Hospitals are all too familiar with the patient affordability crisis. Patient responsibility has more than doubled in the past 20 years and is expected to double again within the next ten.
Still, too many hospitals rely on in-house teams and traditional patient financing solutions that simply don't work. Not only do these programs strain internal resources, but they produce a poor patient experience while bringing in only 15 to 35 cents on the dollar on average for patient responsibility after insurance. With the right solutions and financing options, hospitals can increase collections while at the same time taking debt off their books without recourse.
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In a June advisory call, finance executives from health systems like Banner Health, Methodist Health System and Spectrum Health discussed how they're prioritizing the patient's financial experience.
Key takeaways from the discussion were featured in a whitepaper. Which include:
The 2021 Retirement Survey Report provides detailed information and insights on how organizations responded to the impact of COVID-19, including:
This practical guide contains scheduling strategies that will empower staff, reduce turnover, boost productivity and cut costs.
This white paper synthesizes an advisory call that Becker's Hospital Review and Flywire hosted in April with CFOs and revenue cycle executives from organizations like Cleveland Clinic Florida, Ochsner Health and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. During the call, leaders discussed how they use technology to improve patients' financial experiences and how the shift to virtual care is affecting their operations.
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Download this e-book to learn why implementing a single, integrated digital patient access, intake and engagement platform is critical to improving patient and staff safety and satisfaction while increasing net revenue.
This whitepaper, developed from a three-part study conducted by HIMSS, and sponsored by Spectrum Enterprise, looks at:
Learn about the 10 criteria used to determine the efficacy and sophistication of your purchased services efforts, and how they compare with others in the market including:
This white paper explores how identifying and focusing on the members most likely to experience chronic disease complications in the next 12 months can deliver results.
In this case study, you will learn how one health plan:
Costly write-offs remain a problem for many hospitals and practices. This is especially the case with commercial claims, which are marked by denials and complicated, labor-intensive appeals.
ERISA Recovery's new white paper offers an in-depth look at this topic, with a focus on:
Highlights include:
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Additional insights from the advisory call, featured in an e-Book sponsored by Flywire, include:
Health plan leaders in the areas of quality, clinical, prevention, health engagement and population health will find this case study a helpful resource in determining the types of member benefits they should offer.
It walks through a successful chronic disease prevention program and how it used three member engagement strategies to meet its goals:
During a February roundtable discussion sponsored by IBM Watson Health, a panel of executives from healthcare payers shared how their organizations are using analytics and strategies to reduce disparities, lower costs and improve outcomes. This whitepaper reviews the 6 key takeaways from that discussion.
Download our whitepaper, "Beyond the pandemic: How virtual care leads to better outcomes," to discover how virtual care:
No longer a commodity, identity data management and EMPIs (Enterprise Master Person Index's) have been reinvigorated. EMPIs are not what they used to be — and that’s a good thing.
Learn how next-generation identity management technology has made leaps over legacy software in recent years to support health system and health plans’ goals of a clear, 360-degree view of patients and populations.
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Despite their challenges, many healthcare leaders remain optimistic about attracting talent in the future. Huron sponsored an advisory call in which a panel of executives shared their organizations’ strategies for winning the war for healthcare talent.
This whitepaper details 6 takeaways from that call. Download to learn:
Using Notable’s intelligent automation platform, Fort HealthCare is digitizing the front end of the patient experience and all areas where staff traditionally engage in manual processes. This includes prior authorizations, registration, and pre-visit planning.
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This case study outlines how UCHealth cut training time by 56 percent and saved millions of dollars in the process by harnessing the power of personalized learning.
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For all these reasons and more, it is critical that healthcare organizations tackle no-shows head-on. This whitepaper outlines how positive, consistent patient engagement can minimize no-shows and offers concrete steps that healthcare organizations can take to ensure patients feel prepared and informed about their upcoming visit.
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Beyond recruiting, retention is even more difficult with the increase in turnover and employee burnout. Healthcare workers are grappling with high levels of fear, fatigue and stress amid the pandemic, with widespread burnout fueling turnover as employees seek positions with fewer stressors.
By building a community and embracing a more human-centered approach, your organization can recruit and retain top talent, and put your people first. Download this guide for 10 tips on recruiting and hiring employees, addressing staff burnout and retaining top talent in your healthcare organization, including:
Take the opportunity to improve your understanding of your patients' experience navigating the entire system—from before they make an appointment, through the care they receive, to the final payment.
This guide provides valuable insight by allowing you to walk in your patients’ shoes. It also identifies places where the patient experience can be improved through better connections, digital interactions and empathy.
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During the Becker's Hospital Review 9th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable, experts from ServiceNow and senior healthcare leaders discussed how strategies like workforce automation can transform both the patient and clinician experience, and how to make the process simple.
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Physicians have been overburdened by clinical documentation for years. Many have had to rely on the support of medical scribes to accurately document care. However, recent surveys show that 44 percent of medical scribes have no prior experience, and only 22 percent have any form of certification. Scribes also aren't scalable and have high turnover rates, which lead to continuous training for accurate notes.
Emerging technology powered by artificial intelligence can support efficient clinical documentation that supports a better experience for providers and patients.
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During an AMA-led session at Becker's 9th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable in November, health system leaders from across the country shared their experiences addressing physician well-being and staff turnover amid the pandemic. This whitepaper offers a summary of the discussion, along with a look at emerging research on burnout from AMA.
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Like many providers, the registration process at ARC was highly manual. Staff had to manage multiple, often duplicative work queues for each patient at each stage of the process.
Using Notable's intelligent automation platform, ARC is powering a touchless patient registration experience, a critical step in patient financial clearance within the revenue cycle. This consists of automating various pre-visit workflows like new patient pre-visit registration, demographic verification, payer/plan matching, and real-time eligibility.
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Healthcare cost reduction is more important than ever, yet legacy accounts payable processes hold providers back, eating up time and inflating costs. Streamlining procure-to-pay in the healthcare industry is key to ensuring that organizations have what they need in order to offer the best, most effective patient care.
However, data from Premier Inc., an industry-leading healthcare improvement company, indicates that most invoices in this sector are still paper-based, with the vast majority of them still paid by paper check. Aside from the expense of doing things this way, manual processes slow down the healthcare P2P workflow and create opportunity for error.
Remitra™, a division of Premier Inc. partnered with the Institute of Finance Management (IOFM) to explore ways in which technology-enabled ordering, invoice processing and payment can help healthcare providers and suppliers do their jobs better. The whitepaper, “Ready, Set, Automate: 5 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Gain Efficiencies, Reduce Costs with Digitized AP Technology,” explores the benefits of using data to sync up buyers and sellers in order to streamline the supply chain and reduce errors, while minimizing cost and inefficiency.
"The most exciting part of the study is that we know our patients are having better outcomes," Dr. Schmidt said. "We know that our system is going to remain sustainable because we've been able to provide decreased cost of care, while at the same time improving our patient outcomes.”
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Providers rarely have the resources to see these types of broader patterns and opportunities. Oftentimes, claims data external to a provider network can help fill in the gaps to allow for more informed planning and decision support that can provide a much-needed edge in the healthcare marketplace.
In this case study, providers can learn from Lehigh Valley Health Network and how they addressed critical planning challenges including:
This whitepaper outlines 10 strategies to engage staff and boost retention, while also seizing this opportunity to improve efficiency, automate manual tasks and empower patients to take a more active role in their healthcare experience.
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This e-book is based on the 5th Annual Telehealth Benchmark Survey for Hospitals and Health Systems — conducted by Becker's Hospital Review in partnership with Teladoc Health. More than 150 healthcare leaders responded to the survey. Nearly half of respondents were C-suite executives.
The e-book contains analysis of five crucial telehealth insights identified by the survey:
This white paper—a culmination of data from over 1,800 patients, physicians and healthcare leaders in 13 countries—focuses on the challenges that arise within the earliest stages of the vascular patient journey.
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It’s a critical time for shaping how healthcare will be delivered and received in future years, and understanding drivers of patient experience is essential. Download the white paper to learn more about these issues and potential solutions related to coronary artery disease (CAD) and peripheral artery disease (PAD) patients around the world.
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Growing call volumes and worsening staffing shortages have led to call centers that are overworked and unable to meet patient expectations. As a result, today’s leading health systems are designing “digital front doors” that can offload call volume by replacing manual calls with automated digital services.
Leading health systems are leveraging AI, robotic process automation, and digital patient engagement to automate many of the workflows that previously ran through the call center. By streamlining cumbersome, manual processes with AI and robotic process automation, teams are increasing their capacity and better serving their patients, while reducing the overall cost of care.
Read this whitepaper to learn best practices from industry leaders on automating common call center workflows with a digital front door, including triage and scheduling, appointment reminders, registration, prior authorization, referral management and payment collection.
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In this eBook, we review hospital discharge processes and discuss the challenges. We also outline how intelligent automation is being used in hospitals and health systems of all sizes to achieve three simple steps for consistently managing patient discharges:
This white paper examines how eight healthcare executives are adjusting to meet the challenge and drive down labor costs. Through a combination of monitoring operations, leaning into digital care accessibility and leveraging partnerships to develop a robust digital infrastructure, leaders are not just easing labor strains, but creating more efficient workflows.
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To better understand the current state of cardiac care and how health systems can best respond to growing patient consumerism and value-based challenges, Becker’s Hospital Review and Siemens Healthineers conducted a survey of more than 100 cardiologists and health system leaders. Respondents identified key challenges faced by health system cardiology service lines and the means by which they are working to solve them.
This special report shares these industry leaders’ insights and perspectives to identify potential solutions that can help transform cardiac care delivery to benefit patients and health systems.
This white paper contains an overview of common M&A challenges and 10 best practices for overcoming these challenges.
To shine a light on how stakeholders across the industry are driving the evolution of virtual care, Amwell teamed up with HIMSS Analytics to ask senior executives at hospitals, health systems, and health plans across the country about their post-pandemic strategy and their planned investments in telehealth. To keep them honest, we also surveyed front-line clinicians caring for patients in a broad range of practice settings.
The findings suggest that telehealth is entering a critical new phase. As healthcare leaders take stock of the telehealth experience of the past year, the focus is shifting from pandemic-fueled expediency to a “smart-growth” mindset that prioritizes consolidation, integration and purposeful central planning. Based on their insights, we’ve identified three key themes that will define this new phase and the future of virtual care.
Growth in patient volume will continue to rise as the nation's population ages and chronic disease rates increase. As a result, hospitals need to be more efficient with their resources than ever before. This means capacity management must become one of the most important areas for hospitals to focus on.
In this whitepaper, you'll learn:Halting HAPIs in American hospitals demands attention. Recent reports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality indicate that the incidence of many hospital-acquired conditions is falling. However, pressure injuries rates continue to rise despite being a top priority for health systems.
A recent survey conducted by Frost and Sullivan was designed to better understand the persistent rise of pressure injuries and examine potential solutions to the problem.
This report is based on those survey findings and in-depth interviews with 20 healthcare professionals.
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Equitable care requires innovative solutions.
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Those adopting new patient engagement technologies report a better experience for both patients and staff members.
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These and many other topics were addressed in the survey, making this white paper a useful resource for strategy and planning beyond the pandemic.
This guide outlines how healthcare organizations can implement equitable and inclusive sourcing practices to support their diversity commitments.
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Utilizing Vizient's extensive pharmacy analytics, the Vizient Pharmacy Outlook is an industry-leading report providing drug price inflation projections over the next 18 months across multiple classes of trade and therapeutic areas. Health system and hospital financial and pharmacy leaders rely on this report to budget smarter and prepare for future trends that impact their delivery of care.
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1. Their IT staff had to be heavily involved.
2. There was no common method of tracking the remote access sessions.
3. It was impossible to implement a uniform security policy, making HIPAA compliance difficult to determine.
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From how to effectively use tracking technology to ensuring the supply chain is clinically integrated to how sustainability can reduce costs, there are key trends of which supply chain leaders must be aware.
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These eight articles are must-reads for supply chain leaders who want to stay ahead of the curve and position their ASC for success. They contain insights on topics such as improving surgery center efficiency, addressing burnout and long-term capital planning.
3M and Becker's Hospital Review recently surveyed dozens of hospital and health system executives about the ongoing obstacles in the way of those mission critical goals, and the technology they're relying on to make progress.
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In this whitepaper, you’ll learn how centralized monitoring systems like the one used at Ochsner Health can:
To better leverage the new healthcare ecosystem, healthcare leaders must take on four distinct imperatives. To do so, they should consider outside partners who can deliver more: data, access and improved patient experience.
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For many healthcare executives, cost concerns have made them hesitant to invest in surgical robots. However, when built right, a robotic surgery service line can enhance operational efficiencies and reduce the total cost to treat.
This ebook explores the value of robotic surgery in a value-based market, as well as the key considerations needed to shape a viable program.
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A supplier payment platform can help providers understand what's working well in their supply management processes and what could use improvement. While healthcare and hospitals systems have historically lagged in adopting automation for invoices and payment processing, those who have are able to strengthen their supply network and use their internal resources smarter.
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Health systems are striving to enhance the quality of patient experiences and outcomes, while simultaneously expanding and growing the business aspects of healthcare delivery. This white paper offers an overview of recent industry challenges and insights into new approaches to strategic planning.
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Earlier this spring, Becker’s Hospital Review and Cardinal Health convened a group of health system leaders to discuss how their organizations responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and how they’re adapting their strategies moving forward. This whitepaper summarizes insights from that discussion.
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Health systems’ chief digital officers, chief medical officers, chief quality officers, chief innovation officers and educational deans must reevaluate their digital resources and encourage the use of equitable evidence in medical education and within the exam room. And these actions are needed urgently.
This whitepaper offers a digital solution to the following three problems:
These eight articles are must-reads for healthcare leaders who want to pursue successful innovation programs. They contain insights on topics such as interoperability, artificial intelligence, how to build resilient clinical teams and how to prepare for future health crises.
When their experience in traditional, volume-based medicine falls short, they seek care elsewhere, often outside your hospital system. This is why investigating an innovative primary care model is a valuable strategy to address increasingly savvy patient needs in order to retain current customers and attract new ones.
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In January, Molnlycke assembled an advisory board of value analysis leaders to discuss how suppliers can achieve more meaningful relationships with healthcare organizations. This e-book provides an overview of the main themes that emerged from the discussion.
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How healthcare organizations can form meaningful relationships with suppliers
The qualities of a strong value-based partnership
The evidence value analysis committees seek to inform their decision-making process
Clinical knowledge is inherently dynamic, but the way healthcare leaders attain this knowledge can sometimes seem static. For hospital leaders, having the ability to track search data within reference tools to understand what clinical information their clinicians need and in what form they need it is crucial both during and after a crisis.
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This e-book highlights innovations and success factors across the consumer health experience, including:
This whitepaper outlines seven staffing strategies that value, protect and optimize nurses.
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In this ebook, we'll take a closer look at six significant facets of scheduling for 2021 to paint a clearer picture of what's in store for smart scheduling and healthcare operation. Trends include:
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