The following whitepapers have been made available to readers of Becker's Hospital Review. Click on a category below to see the whitepapers available on that topic.
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.
At least 1.6 million U.S. adults seek treatment for spinal deformities every year.
The Rationale for Personalized Interbody Devices is a literature review of published research about the potential benefits of patient specific interbody devices. Over 30 studies describe the benefits related to personalized geometry and endplate fit, which may help surgeons achieve sagittal and coronal alignment goals more reliably.
1. Personalized geometry and fit may help surgeons more reliably achieve optimal alignment, which is the most significant predictor of improved clinical outcomes in surgery to correct spinal malalignment.
2. Compared to non-personalized cage designs, personalized interbody cages reduced endplate stress, increased contact area for bone graft loading, lowered stress on posterior rods and caused a lower stress increase on adjacent levels.
3. Endplate conforming cages provided comparable clinical results and fusion rates in comparison to the traditional cage but with decreased postoperative subsidence and a lower severity of subsidence-related neck pain in follow-up.
Discover how you can transform your own supply chain strategy with these non-acute best practices and key learnings, including the use of data and increased visibility. Read this case study to learn more.
The opportunity for greater surgical volumes is ripe for minimally invasive procedures performed in ASCs.
Although robotic surgeries are a costly investment, the migration of procedures to the outpatient setting can ensure a return on investment.
This white paper from Intuitive Surgical, manufacturer of the da Vinci robotic surgery platform, will offer best practices in adding a robotic surgery line to your ASC.
While the OR is “ground zero” for recent financial problems, it also represents the best opportunity to rebuild hospital margins. In fact, better-performing hospitals are now leveraging surgical services to launch a sustainable financial recovery.
Disruptions in the OR workforce, changes in the surgery market and other factors have complicated the path to recovery. To rebuild surgical services revenue, hospital executives need to plan and execute a complete OR reset.
This report details for hospital executives how to lead a post-pandemic financial recovery by reinvigorating OR performance and reworking OR strategy.
This whitepaper offers quick insights into how one surgery center with 12,000 cases annually achieved $100,000 in savings through simple changes to their pack program.
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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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And because of that, personalized experiences are what consumers expect.
But as of 2023, receiving a personalized experience from a healthcare provider is an anomaly.
Because of this, patients are increasingly disappointed with the experience their providers deliver (and are starting to look at alternatives).
This whitepaper explores the personalization journey of two leading health systems and provides steps you can take to implement at your organization.
Discover how:
In this interview, hear from Cardinal Health’s specialty drug inventory expert about inventory technology that enables providers to better manage specialty drug inventory and ensure these expensive products aren't going to waste.
Learning points:
This guide offers a collection of updated, evidence-based guidelines for hand hygiene and surface disinfection to support your team as you navigate forward. You'll find actionable tips and insights on:
In this white paper, you'll see insights gleaned from an executive roundtable at Becker's Hospital Review's 2023 Annual Meeting in Chicago, where leaders discussed the role of automated intelligence and platform-based tech in these areas. Read more to learn about:
In an advisory call, leaders from NYC Health + Hospitals in New York City, Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh and Baptist Memorial Health in Memphis, Tenn., discussed the patient payment landscape, and shared strategies to improve payment processes and the patient experience.
In this e-book, you'll learn what these healthcare organizations and others are doing to create a culture that fosters positive financial conversations with patients.
Key learnings:
Becker's Healthcare recently spoke with four physicians about how pain management protocols in ASCs have evolved as more patients and procedures have shifted to outpatient settings and as the opioid crisis persists. Experts also shared the core components of a successful multimodal pain management program. The ASC surgical and pain management experts tapped for their insights included:
In this guide, you'll learn the key steps to properly select, store and use exam gloves to ensure the optimal health and well-being of your patients and clinicians.
You'll have access to resources including:
In healthcare, transformational leadership yields numerous benefits, including employee engagement and retention, patient safety and organizational achievement.
The key question is: how to develop truly transformational leaders?
This new white paper lays out exactly what transformational leadership is, what the benefits are and most importantly – how to become a transformational leader.
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Understanding who is most likely to no-show for an appointment — and why — is important to determining how to best tackle the issue.
In this whitepaper, you'll learn:
But whether it’s navigating patients' post-pandemic perceptions or concerns about diversity, equity and inclusion, health system and pharma marketers can help female patients prioritize wellness and make confident healthcare decisions.
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Point-of-care blood management systems can help reduce transfusion errors while improving efficiency and lowering costs. Discover how the implementation of this system helped one hospital save $436,000 annually.
In this whitepaper, you'll learn:
This white paper outlines how one health system successfully reduced readmissions for chronically ill patients by utilizing remote patient monitoring.
In this whitepaper, you'll learn:
In this whitepaper, you'll learn how community health center leaders and their organizations are adapting to the rise in demand for contraceptive care and how they're addressing barriers to providing services for patients.
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In this white paper, Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope shares five key lessons learned from building their precision oncology program, as well as the success they're seeing in patient engagement and earlier detection.
You'll also learn:
In this white paper, you'll learn how clinical decision support tools can augment physicians' reasoning and enable them to visualize patient data, access specialist knowledge and identify trends to improve efficiency, accuracy and quality of care. You'll also find insights on:
Key Learning Objectives:
The so-called "superclinic" houses hundreds of physicians in nearly three dozen specialties and represents one of the busiest outpatient centers in the U.S.
During this webinar, leaders will share how the Kirklin Clinic implemented an intelligent room scheduling system to address these challenges and grow patient volume without expanding physical space. Learn how the hospital achieved:
CHIME's 2022 Digital Health Most Wired survey assessed healthcare organization's digital health capabilities and usage across eight key categories, including patient engagement. This report offers a summary of the survey's patient engagement key findings, including a look at how organizations have improved patient engagement and what the intersection of patient empowerment and digital health will look like in the future.
In this report, you'll learn:
In this whitepaper, Quest Diagnostics outlines the benefits of TB blood tests, including cost-savings, patient experience and more.
Key learning points:
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:
To learn more about how health systems are working to support veteran nurses and upskill new nurses, Becker's Hospital Review recently hosted an advisory call with several chief nursing officers and other clinical leaders. This report is based on that conversation. The topics covered included:
Learn how leading organizations are improving nurse retention and preparing the next generation of high-performing nurses.
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.
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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:
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:
What did this survey find? A newly published ebook summarizes insights and analysis on the First Annual Health Equity Benchmarking Survey. This ebook focuses on:
Ascom's Challenges on The Job for U.S. Nurses survey includes responses from more than 500 nurses to give hospitals a closer look at the needs of today's nursing workforce and the main actions hospitals can take to attract and retain nursing talent.
Here's what you’ll learn:
These eight must-read Becker's articles offer the latest updates on masking in the era of COVID-19, from both an infection control and supply chain perspective. Readings include:
The value of wearing a mask when others don’t
Why did flu, COVID-19 ‘twindemic’ never happen? 1 explanation
How 4 systems keep supply issues from affecting care
To unlock the power of personalized medicine, stakeholders such as health systems, industry leaders, payers, and policymakers must work together to streamline system workflow processes and empower patients and providers. Discover how health systems can collaborate with industry to continue improving cancer diagnostics and seamlessly integrate these advancements into patient care protocols.
The LEAF System combines wearable patient sensors with a user interface, offering:
This guide, from Mobile Heartbeat, will take you step-by-step through the finer points of the implementation process so your clinical and operational teams are fully prepared and equipped with the necessary information for a successful deployment.
Guide topics include:
Understand the phases of implementation
How to align goals and objectives for successful implementation
Finding the right clinical communication and collaboration solution to meet your organizations needs
In the last three years, the FDA has released several updated safety recommendations regarding the potential for cross-contamination in endoscopy — first addressing duodenoscopes but now including other endoscopes.
A new, highly anticipated update to standards for reprocessing reusable endoscopic medical devices classifies flexible endoscopes as "high-risk," necessitating sterilization rather than high-level disinfection to rid the scopes of contaminants.
As increased attention is paid to infection control in hospitals, investments in single-use technology have surged. In this new report from Ambu, you will learn how sterile, single-use flexible endoscopes offer hospital systems the opportunity to provide every patient with the safest solution possible for routine, therapeutic, and emergency care.
From the ED’s unique vantage point, it is clear there is an unaddressed Care Gap costing the U.S. health care system, and all its stakeholders, dearly. Many return ED visits are preventable and involve patients who may struggle to fill new prescriptions or follow a new care plan. A recent analysis of more than 1 million patient encounters at 300 EDs nationwide found that 50 percent of hospitalizations occurred within 7.5 days of an ED discharge.
In this white paper, Randy Pilgrim, MD, FACEP, FAAFP, enterprise chief medical officer of SCP Health, identifies solutions and enumerates the benefits of narrowing and filling the Care Gap, including:
Improved patient outcomes
Decreased cost and risk
Increased capacity and optimized resources
Better performance in value-based models
With surgical site infections (SSIs) accounting for about 20% of HAIs1, it is vital to prophylactically use products that can help prevent SSIs. In this article, we’ll explore:
The prevalence of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs)
Why infections occur
Current trends in infection prevention
Iodophor vs. chlorohexidine gluconate (CHG) use cases
In healthcare, the stakes are high. Workforce shortages can translate into poor outcomes patients and intense psychological duress for nurses. Unless health system leaders find better ways to support clinicians, employee dissatisfaction, patient length of stay and the risk of missed care will increase. Leaders must pull all available strategic levers to help address these challenges. Technology can help.
This whitepaper examines strategies and tools to help mitigate the harm of critical staffing shortages. Key learnings include:
Without a whole-person approach, population health will never reach its full potential of better targeting health interventions and preventing care episodes in the first place. A panel of senior healthcare executives recently convened to discuss how their organizations are considering the whole-person and opportunities to advance population health and equity goals.
This brief whitepaper presents three key takeaways from their discussion.
Key learning points:
How organizations are going beyond claims data to enhance preventive care
Improving risk stratification to address social determinants of health
Role for genomics in population health beyond cancer centers
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Using AccuReg EngageCare Provider for automated quality assurance, real-time eligibility and benefits verification, and price estimation and payments, KSB did the following:
Virtual nursing poses a variety of benefits for both clinicians and patients. This paper provides analysis and first-hand insight from prominent hospital systems that have successfully implemented this model. While these programs currently take place in an inpatient setting, opportunity exists to expand to outpatient and eventually home care as well, as research indicates sites of care will continue to shift toward these settings into the future.
This clinical whitepaper covers:
Survey results identify current and future trends in reimagining care delivery
The rise of the virtual nurse and how two hospitals implemented it differently
Shifts in site of care with growth in outpatient and hospital at home
Leveraging technology to reimagine who delivers care and how they deliver it
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MedHxSM, an AI-powered solution, allows pharmacists and other clinicians to spend more time providing care and less time manually gathering, entering and confirming medications.
Read the case study to see how Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health is using MedHxSM to:
This report examines ~3.4 million provider ordering transactions to offer healthcare leaders a unique glimpse into laboratory utilization trends and opportunities to decrease clinically inappropriate laboratory ordering and unnecessary spend:
These challenges threaten hospital finances, the patient experience, and quality of care. However, an often overlooked factor that plays a crucial role in ensuring success in each of these areas is the effective management of medical devices. This white paper outlines five approaches to medical device management that can positively impact patient safety and clinician satisfaction.
You will learn:
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.
You will learn:
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.
In this whitepaper, you'll learn about six key trends in patient experience, as well as how data that is already housed within your organization can be used to enhance patients' experiences, improve quality scores and increase revenue.
Download the whitepaper to learn more about the following trends:
Download this white paper and learn how to sustain successful hospital medicine programs. Discover:
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.
Key learnings:
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.
Key learnings:
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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.
Key learnings:
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.
Key learning points:
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.
Dive into the data to learn:
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.
Key learnings:
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:
In this white paper, you’ll learn how to:
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:
Learn how Carle Health and Change Healthcare:
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.
Key learning points:
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.
In this white paper, you will learn:
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.
In this whitepaper you’ll learn:
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.
Here are key takeaways from this report:
But many questions remain. In this report, Optum surveyed more than 161 health care leaders from health plans, providers and life sciences and asked:
In this whitepaper, you’ll learn:
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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Becker's Healthcare and AWS Marketplace collaboratively surveyed 115 healthcare leaders on their organizations' journeys to better technology offerings and capabilities, as well as where key barriers and opportunities lie.
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In this vein, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and other technologies are showing promise. To successfully transform their organizations, however, healthcare leaders must also identify the right sources of data, get key stakeholders excited about the possibilities and identify projects that will deliver quick wins. This white paper explores how systems such as CommonSpirit Health and Intermountain Health are doing just that.
Key learnings:
In this e-book, you'll learn key findings from the Becker's-TigerConnect 2023 medical and nursing leadership survey, which captured perspectives from more than 100 clinical leaders on the current state of clinical communications and how communication tools impact day-to-day clinical workflows.
You'll learn:
In this Zoom white paper, you'll learn how collaborative platforms are increasingly supporting clinical and business operations at life sciences organizations, including how one pharmaceutical company is seeing success in staff engagement and physician education.
Read more to discover how this technology:
Enables organizations to fast-track vaccine and drug development
Addresses some of the biggest challenges that life sciences organizations face, like connectivity, data sharing, clinical trials and staffing
Promotes innovation and go-to-market, and advances research
However, HIPAA isn't static, and maintaining compliance requires staying up to date with changes in the law, which creates an additional burden for providers who should be focusing on patient care.
A secure cloud communications platform is key to fostering collaborative communication between providers without fear of violating HIPAA. Download the white paper to learn how to:
This whitepaper explores how leading health systems are leveraging intelligent automation, large language models (LLMs), and generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) technologies to finally realize the potential of patient data.
Discover how:
This white paper recaps an exclusive discussion between nine healthcare executives from systems like Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.), Baptist Health South Florida (Coral Gables, Fla.) and Sentara Healthcare (Norfolk, Va.), who shared their thoughts on the promise of digital and automated care tools for closing care gaps and how-to's for successfully implementing them.
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During a recent peer-to-peer discussion hosted by Becker's Hospital Review, healthcare information and technology leaders shared their own experiences and common challenges they've faced in adopting cloud strategies. Download the white paper to see their insights on best practices, goals, criteria and metrics for integrating cloud technology.
Learn how to:
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incorporate cloud into healthcare operations in the most effective way.
Key Points:
Explore further possible uses for telehealth such as:
The growing complexity of care increases the communication and documentation burden on staff. This is why clinical workflow automation is gaining momentum — and why its adoption is expected to double from 2022 to 2024.
In collaboration with Becker's Healthcare, OmniLife Health conducted its inaugural clinical workflow automation benchmark survey, which elicited responses from 99 C-suite, clinical, transplant leaders and other decision-makers about where their organizations stand on implementing this critical technology.
Key learnings:
While ambulatory care is an important strategic move to expand patient access, increase revenue and improve margins, there are critical challenges to navigate.
This eBook – based on an advisory call of health system leaders from across the country with significant ambulatory care expertise – covers keys to successful ambulatory care expansion, such as:
Why understanding the local market is critical
Prioritizing the patient experience when designing sites of care
Different management skills needed for ASCs vs. inpatient care
The need to focus on ambulatory reimbursement models
As the market rapidly shifts to more ambulatory care, it is essential to understand and act on the keys to ambulatory success.
In times of tight budgets and staffing challenges, technology such as artificial intelligence empower hospitals to run more sustainably.
AI patient monitoring helps hospitals minimize falls, cut costs and reduce the need for full time employees. Now it's time to bring digital nursing into the acute environment for truly flexible nursing teams.
Explore how AI and other digital care tools are making care more efficient in this white paper.
Key learnings:
Get ready for next-level growth, productivity, and patient engagement with Health Cloud and Tableau CRM. The solution helped MIMIT get a holistic view of patient data with a single source of truth — and a 459% ROI in less than three months.
According to Nucleus Research, MIMIT Health:
Boosted productivity by 30%
Raised patient engagement
Reduced procedure scheduling from two weeks to two to five days
Cut inventory costs by 15%, or $150,000 a year
This white paper explores the steps health systems can take to upgrade manual patient engagement to digital processes for closing referral gaps.
Read more to learn about:
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:
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:
Key Takeaways:
In this new white paper, discover how leading plans are leveraging data and artificial intelligence to turbocharge the member experience, transform member interactions and drive engagement across all channels.
Use existing data and AI to turbocharge the contact center
Create a holistic view of members to transform their experience
Drive personalization with existing member data
Overcome barriers to technology adoption and build greater trust with members
That’s a key takeaway from Becker’s survey of 102 hospital and health system leaders. This survey revealed lessons from the pandemic about increased resilience for future health crises. Among the key lessons is an increased focus on technology to improve clinical efficiency and staff effectiveness.
Gain insights from this survey on how coping with the last crisis (COVID-19) can help organizations be better prepared for the next one. Learn how health systems leaders are addressing points of failure and building on successful technology-driven strategies from the pandemic.
Key takeaways include:
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:
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:
Nursing shortage and the rising cost of contract staff
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.
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Learn how top healthcare organizations met these challenges with a new healthcare integration engine and experienced:
Becker’s Hospital Review recently collaborated with Zoom to survey 255 healthcare workers. Respondents were asked about their current level of burnout (teaser: it remains exceedingly high) as well as their use of telehealth technology and applications of video communication technology other than telehealth.
Download this two-page survey summary to discover:
This survey identifies actionable ways that video and other communications
technologies can help improve employee satisfaction, reduce burnout and boost productivity.
Key findings examined in the white paper include:
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:
New fall prevention technology powered artificial intelligence can help eliminate false alarms and gets nurses back to the bedside. The technology offloads additional tasks for nurses by reducing false alarms by 95 percent. It also provides effective patient safety and nursing support at a fraction of the cost of telesitters.
Key learnings:
How many nursing hours are wasted due to false alarms
How AI technology reduces tasks from nursing workloads, reducing burnout
How AI solutions deliver 1:1 patient fall monitoring
But there are ways to mitigate these limits. With CipherHealth's unified platform, healthcare organizations can successfully engage patients throughout the care process to provide a reliable, digital and retail-like experience.
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Increasing demand for care at home programs, at all levels of acuity, is one of the many reasons more health systems are deploying remote care programs.
Care-at-home programs support improved outcomes across staffing, readmissions and patient satisfaction. Download this whitepaper to learn how health systems are utilizing remote care to deliver better care:
Old ways of working simply aren’t up to the challenges of today. They are too expensive, too inflexible and too hard to scale. The network is key to changing how healthcare operates. It enables providers to leverage the latest technologies — including artificial intelligence, machine learning and the internet of medical things — to generate unprecedented insight and make decision making smarter and faster.
In this whitepaper, we walk through the evolving challenges and opportunities for achieving enterprise intelligence across an increasingly decentralized care ecosystem.
What you’ll learn:
What barriers to innovation continue to challenge healthcare’s focus
How infrastructure transformation with network capabilities like private 5G, edge compute and network-as-a-Service will support the evolution of inpatient care
How rearchitecting connectivity, security and collaboration will build the innovation healthcare needs
Today, true care transformation can't be achieved without effective digital health solutions. According to Gartner, the digital health platforms approach guides organizations down "a path to faster value realization when responding to strategic imperatives and external uncertainties." The right digital health platform partnership will help healthcare organizations differentiate themselves and advance care delivery.
Learn more about digital health platforms and access insights from Gartner's "Market Guide for Digital Health Platform for Healthcare Providers."
Having real-time insights into every experience that matters allows healthcare organizations to understand the patient journey from end-to-end, connect feedback from multiple data channels, make data-driven business decisions that improve their bottom line and drive action at every level to deliver on patient and employee expectations.
Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica is one of 11,000 healthcare organizations globally reaping the benefits of this strategy, known as experience management.
In this guide, readers will learn how to use experience management to:
Approximately 45 to 60 percent of a hospital’s revenue and expenses are related to perioperative services, and bundled payment models demand standardization and reliability to be successful. Yet at many hospitals, high variability in outcomes and costs produces a misalignment of goals among physicians, staff and administrators.
Besides delayed cases, slow operating room throughput, dissatisfied surgeons and significant deviations between same procedures performed by different surgeons inhibit organizations from offering competitive pricing or assuming the financial risk of managing community health.
At Wilmington, N.C.-based New Hanover Regional Medical Center, North American Partners in Anesthesia's team led by Rob Shakar, MD, chief of anesthesia, worked collaboratively with clinical colleagues to improve standardization in the total joint program by piloting a perioperative surgical home program in orthopedics.
The program generated outstanding clinical and operational outcomes and saved the hospital $4.2 million in the first year, prompting the hospital to scale perioperative surgical home across 16 service lines that produced an annual return on investment of up to $12 million.
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A surgeon-authored report of patient-specific planning and placement of aprevo® interbody devices is available to spine surgeons, PAs, nurses and C-suite members.
Examples include single and multi-level fusions in patients diagnosed with stenosis, spondylolisthesis and adult deformity.
Planned versus achieved spinal alignment is shown for personalized surgical procedures utilizing aprevo® for:
That shifted in July 2017 when they began using Bamboo Health’s Pings solution to help monitor patient events in real time, improve care coordination efforts and succeed under MSSP.
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In this whitepaper you'll learn how to make informed prior authorization decisions quickly, reduce time spent dealing with phone calls and faxes, lower your overall expenditures and improve your members' care outcomes.
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Download this one-page summary to learn why nursing leaders consistently turn to CareRev's technology to post shifts, manage float pools and maintain flexible staffing.
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To attract and retain those patients, providers need to offer the modern, convenient features they’re accustomed to using elsewhere.
Phreesia recently surveyed more than 4,000 patients about their digital expectations for their care, including how they want to check in, manage appointments, make payments and engage with providers. We dive deep into the survey results and explore their implications for providers in our new white paper, How consumerism is reshaping the healthcare landscape—and how provider organizations should respond.
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Read this white paper by SCP Health Chief Operating Officer Rob Reilly, to learn proven strategies for integrating artificial intelligence for better care and cost, including:
Download this two-page report to get a grasp of the why and how behind incorporating human-centered design into health tech solutions.
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While many leaders have turned to intelligent automation to expand staff capacity and reduce costs, it is increasingly becoming the basis of sustainable topline revenue growth. To drive growth, healthcare organizations need to go beyond acquiring referral channels to securing patient access across the patient journey via a variety of digital doors.
Using intelligent automation, healthcare organizations can deliver hassle-free primary and specialty care access points. They can also hardwire care progression by guiding patients to stay in-network along their care journeys.
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Learn how to improve patient acquisition, retention, and loyalty. In this guide, we’ll walk you through:
This white paper outlines various ways hospitals and health systems can mitigate the harms of healthcare's workforce crisis by better supporting nurses. Learnings include.
How generate a renewed focus on caregiver well-being
How to improve both the physical and emotional working environment
How to create a culture of psychological support
The insights in this ebook can empower finance and supply chain managers to reduce spend and improve compliance every day.
Learnings include:
This migration can relieve the financial burden of EHR investment, while also making it simpler for providers to adapt to new challenges.
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How much faster upgrade cycles are completed with cloud-based EHR
How quicker response times are when using cloud-based EHR
How to cure EHR update hiccups
How is change managed in your organization, and which processes could be more effective?
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Improve visibility into projects, processes and resources
Better communicate change plans across teams
Gain buy-in from key stakeholders
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.
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Still, too many hospitals' safety efforts are hindered by outdated tech infrastructures that make implementing solutions far more costly than they have to be, resulting in budget considerations canceling safety concerns. It is unacceptable for the physical well-being of nurses and others to become unaffordable.
This guide includes:
The importance of staff safety solutions, featuring a case study from a healthcare facility
An overview of the immediate benefits of staff safety how
5 steps to improve staff safety in your hospital
With synthetic data:
Conduct research 10x faster
Explore data independent of IRB process
Access broad datasets instantly and dynamically
Share research and insights worldwide
The eBook from MDClone will offer an in-depth guide to synthetic data for healthcare and how unlocking data access can drive innovation across the organization.
Leaders from Ochsner Health, RWJBarnabas Health, Banner Health and more recently participated in an advisory call hosted by Becker's Hospital Review and RevSpring to discuss why digital must be a top priority in healthcare organizations' strategy to improve the patient experience.
Key learning points:
How providers are getting to know their patients' preferences
Ways to improve cost transparency
Enhancing self-service options for scheduling and payments
By implementing e-signature technology beyond the EHR, organizations can improve the patient intake and consent process saving patients and providers alike time and money–and reduce the burden upon staff.
This report highlights the challenges, opportunities and costs associated with improving the patient intake and consent process, including:
- 63% of providers say their consent process contains risks as a result of poor document storage and retrieval capabilities.
- 88% of healthcare respondents say e-signature is crucial for their organization — and that number is projected to climb to 93% within the next few years.
Seven oncology leaders from across the U.S. recently participated in a roundtable sponsored by Elsevier and hosted by Becker's Hospital Review to discuss how COVID-19 reshaped the oncology field and how they are preparing for a pandemic-adjacent future. Download the two-page report to read the main insights from the discussion.
Key learning points:
The changes organizations are making to prioritize cancer care delivery
The unique role of health educators and support staff
What future oncology care models will incorporate
The outlook on the cost of oncology drugs
Healthcare is on the verge of the interconnected, intelligent future patients and clinicians deserve. This report examines the emerging technologies transforming healthcare and outlines the infrastructure necessary to support the coming connectivity revolution.
Key learnings include:
• The future of remote patient monitoring and device interconnectivity
• Why AI + 5G will transform healthcare technology development
• How an in-house innovation lab is transforming home care
However, there are simple steps healthcare organizations can take to make preferred-language communication easier for patients and providers. When organizations use patients’ language of preference, staff can be more efficient and feel more supported while patients receive more personalized care and have better experiences.
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The impact of communicating with patients in their preferred language
How preferred-language communication improves patients’ access to care
How technology breaks down language barriers to improve care and meet patients where they are
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:
This report provides insight on how to stay ahead of attacks, how to get better at restoring data after an attack and tips to secure cyber insurance coverage.
Key learning points:
The wider organizational impact of a ransomware attack on healthcare
Different methods used to recover encrypted data
The amount of ransom paid by health care organizations
Changes healthcare organizations are making to better position themselves for cyber insurance coverage
Leadership, staff and skillset
With 15 years of experience in asynchronous care behind us, we've found it to be the solution to the biggest challenges facing healthcare:
Health systems that are serious about solving these problems must venture outside traditional modes of care to prioritize patients and providers.
This guide also includes COVID-19: The Largest Case Study on Async.
Learning Objectives:
To better understand how healthcare leaders are thinking about leveraging technology and CX platforms to solve their most critical challenges, Becker’s Hospital Review conducted roundtables and interviews with several healthcare leaders from both provider and payer organizations. Participants included the chief digital officer for Columbia, S.C.-based Prisma Health and Aetna's former chief innovation and digital officer. This report is based on those conversations.
Key learnings include:
4 digital experience trends identified across patients and members
An overview of the technology infrastructure necessary to support greater convenience in the patient experience
A 3-point assessment of a platform approach to healthcare consumer engagement
Recent advancements in technology and telehealth protocols have the potential to transform traditional maternity care. With proper integration, virtual care can start immediately addressing the leading factors in maternal deaths as identified by the CDC.
As we conducted research to bring together the ideas and concepts for this whitepaper, our team pulled information from recent healthcare news as well as interviewed a series of telehealth specialists, maternity care providers, and women who recently experienced high-risk pregnancies. As a telehealth solution provider, we are actively looking for ways to increase access to care, improve patient outcomes, manage healthcare costs and address gaps that have long created barriers in healthcare. Together we have created the potential for solutions that can almost immediately address the challenges facing present and future families in the U.S.
Augmenting Traditional Maternity Care with Virtual Care:
Close gaps in the care cycle from prenatal to postnatal and newborn care
Increase collaboration between healthcare providers to help identify and mitigate high-risk pregnancy conditions
Streamline provider collaboration while reducing cost of care for patients and providers
MU Health Care, an academic medical center in Columbia, Mo., recently completed an enterprisewide rollout of Amwell’s Converge platform to help achieve its vision of a centralized virtual care model. Through this rollout, the health system improved the patient, provider, and staff experience through features like build-in interpreter services, and the ability to launch a visit directly from the EHR.
In this case study, learn how MU Health Care:
Streamlined and centralized virtual care and deployed it across 35 primary and specialty care locations
Prioritized program features critical to patient, provider, and staff success
Simplified the patient experience by eliminating the need for app downloads and logins
Replicated in-person workflows using a virtual rooming workflow
Real-time location services (RTLS) are an important component of smart hospitals. RTLS technology powered by internet-of-things connectivity can accurately determine the location of people and assets throughout a hospital facility. The benefits of this technology extend from the obvious to the inconspicuous. While asset tracking may be the most common use case, RTLS can also address environmental monitoring, staff safety, hand hygiene compliance and wayfinding challenges as well.
By providing hyper-accurate tracking and monitoring solutions, RTLS technology can help mitigate these challenges.
This report covers:
Integrating RTLS into existing systems
The cost of maintaining legacy RTLS systems
How RTLS can improve the patient experience
Choosing the right platform
In the healthcare industry, the problem of employee burnout has been a major challenge for years. Addressing this challenge has only become more urgent amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The boom of systems and technology has helped the healthcare industry improve efficiency but also has been a major contributor to provider stress and exhaustion. Siloed information systems and limited connectivity mean clinicians have become human data routers, searching for
relevant information to conduct their work and manually moving information from one system to another.
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Olive is creating the Internet of Healthcare to connect disjointed systems, reduce administrative burden and unleash $1 trillion in healthcare costs.
Olive is providing health systems with state-of-the-art automation technology, growing its partner network to further connected solutions and investing in the enhancement of interoperability and intelligence.
The platform provides leaders at health systems and hospitals with critical tools and capabilities to realize their success, including automations, services, APIs, intelligence through an extensive graph database, semantic interoperability and many more.
The platform provides healthcare technology partners with tools to accelerate build times while reducing the cost of customer acquisition and increasing speed to market.
Recently, Becker’s Hospital Review gathered health system leaders for panel discussions on the current state of the healthcare supply chain as part of a Supply Chain Forum, which was sponsored by Cardinal Health. Learn how Unity Point Health, Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic turned to new technology and a solid new strategy to identify and solve supply chain issues. It all centers on reimagining the supply chain and optimizing competing priorities such as safety, quality, cost and access to products.
Healthcare innovation is advancing by leaps and bounds, even as much of that innovation happens faster at the conceptual and technology levels than at the actual implementation level.
During a May advisory call hosted by Becker’s Hospital Review and sponsored by T-Mobile for Business, Baron Kuehlewind, healthcare industry solutions advisor at T-Mobile, and a group of strategy, operations and telehealth leaders discussed how new care delivery models, technology and connectivity are colliding to reimagine the continuum of health services.
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1. Care delivery outside of the hospital is forging ahead under different modalities.
2. Legacy systems are a major roadblock to advancing integration of remote and in-person care.
3. Connectivity is essential to extending care and supporting staff, with a caveat.
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Reducing length of stay and moving patients to alternative care settings such as ambulatory care clinics and home-based care is a top priority for many health systems. As care shifts to these settings, medication safety and robust inventory management are critical considerations, especially considering that drug shortages aren't expected to go away anytime soon.
During a May 2 panel at Becker's Virtual Annual Meeting, pharmacy leaders from Avera Health, UC San Diego Health and the University of Rochester Medical Center discussed key challenges surrounding medication inventory management and how they're working to address them. This whitepaper offers a summary of the discussion.
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Tools and techniques to improve inventory visibility and reporting
How inventory analytics can support organizational growth
Becker's Hospital Review conducted an online survey among practitioners to learn more about the current state of kit and tray management.
Here are five key takeaways:
1. Kit Check is overwhelmingly seen as the industry-leading vendor for kit and tray management.
2. Respondents see multiple opportunities for technologies to improve medication management.
3. A minority of health systems represented in the survey are currently using kit and tray management vendors.
4. The primary reasons that a hospital system would consider a new vendor are system standardization and problems with a current vendor.
5. When researching new vendors, traditional methods remain most important.
During a roundtable session sponsored by West Monroe at Becker’s Hospital Review’s 12th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Hugh Ma, partner at West Monroe, facilitated a discussion among healthcare executives about how digital health's advancement depends on organizations’ abilities to reinvent their operating models. This report is based on their conversation.
IDC Research reveals the rollout of Health Cloud in Latin America and Canada saw:
3x faster setup for new care plan templates
10% gain in territorial reach
20% drop in enrollment time
Several new loyalty programs, up from just one
However, a wide range of technical, operational and regulatory challenges make it difficult for many healthcare organizations to properly implement home-care models. In this whitepaper by NTT DATA, you will learn:
Why hospital at home is a fast-rising model for value-based healthcare
The benefits and obstacles of a hospital at home system
The best way to implement a hospital at home solution within your organization
Patient self-scheduling can be a strategic lever for organizations to move from patient leakage to keepage at any point in the patient journey. However, the ROI for previous scheduling investments has been constrained by a myopic focus on the experience of one stakeholder group – be it patients, providers, or staff – and the exclusion of others.
It’s time for leaders to take a closer look at why their status quo scheduling processes have fallen short of expectations – and how they can unlock growth goals with self-scheduling.
Readers will learn:
How to empower providers to open their schedules with confidence, free staff from the administrative burden of managing scheduling requests, and proactively nudge patients to schedule recommended care
How to accurately assess the real benefits and potential pitfalls of self-scheduling solutions
Why a leading health system replaced their patient portal with self-scheduling, garnering a 96% patient satisfaction rating
Get this report and discover the top five use cases for digital healthcare staffing.
Applicant tracking systems (ATS)
Offer letters
Credentialing
Contracts
Onboarding
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As this shift occurs, many physicians are seeking new innovations to reduce costs, perform at a higher level and offer care to larger numbers of patients.
This whitepaper features insights from three leading otolaryngologists about the challenges
facing their practices and how they're adopting a new, single-use approach to microdebridement to create a positive clinician and patient experience.
Key takeaways:
Combining in-person, virtual and automated care to not only strengthen the patient experience but deliver better care with improved outcomes. Take a walk through a patient journey and see how care modalities are combined to create a seamless user experience within acute and outpatient settings, all the way to automated and virtual care in the home.
In this infographic you will walk through one patient’s behavioral health journey as they:
• Receive acute psychiatry care in the emergency department and in-patient unit
• Are entered into a virtual outpatient program
• Enter maintenance mode, including therapy at home, coaching, and self-directed care
• Trigger an escalation from automated to virtual care
However, data integration is more important than ever in healthcare, especially for marketers, who are looking to move away from relying on second- and third-party aggregated data to select target audiences. In the age of personalized, organic customer experiences, healthcare marketers are aiming to make their outreach strategies more individualized.
During a Becker’s webinar held in January and sponsored by Salesforce, data integration experts discussed the importance of having a HIPAA/GDPR-compliant customer data platform for driving more personalized engagement.
Download the whitepaper to learn how customer data platforms help meet evolving marketing and user engagement needs by:
As this already massive volume of data is expected to more than double in the next three years, many wonder how they will keep up.
Download this ebook, authored by IDC, for a powerful, visual look at trends, surveyed data, predictions and benefits.
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These 10 articles examine current challenges and opportunities in the healthcare experience. Collectively, they amount to actionable guidance for digital health investment. Articles include:
Specifically, health plans are currently spending valuable time and resources manually reviewing authorizations, which is a time-consuming process that can delay treatments — or worse, be an obstacle to care. Not only this, but with manual reviews estimated costs between $20 to $50 per prior authorization clinical review.
This white paper outlines how payers can automate the prior authorization process to lower administrative burden and operational costs while enabling the delivery of faster, more efficient care.
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.
Key learning points:
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.
Key learning points:
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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.
Key learning points:
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.
Topics covered include:
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.
In this white paper you’ll learn:
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.
Learnings include:
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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Download this whitepaper to learn why interoperability and cybersecurity are critical health system investments. You’ll learn:
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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.
Learning points:
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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What does this mean for the future of care? Download this whitepaper to learn:
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.
Ready to learn how no-code tools can help your hospital or medical practice work smarter? In this guide, you will learn:
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.
In this white paper, you’ll learn how:
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:
Key points include:
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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A patient's first and last interactions are often financial. And market research shows that their satisfaction and your financial sustainability are impacted by these interactions. This whitepaper outlines the latest market research and insights from 35 leading health systems on the current state of the patient financial experience.
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Overcome the pressure of shrinking margins by increasing workforce efficiency with lessons in this e-book from Proliance Surgeons and Prosthetic & Orthotics Group.
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Optimizing revenue opportunities and maximizing reimbursements are imperative for financial stability, and contract performance is critical to those efforts. This e-book details concrete steps hospitals and health systems can take to maximize revenue through better insurance contract management, and how having the right data can help them get there.
You'll gain key insights including:
Gain insights on the state of patient access and learn what you can do to improve it.
Three things you'll learn in this report:
So how are leading health plans responding to these headwinds? That is exactly what Becker’s asked senior leaders from top health plans in a recent Advisory Call.
This Advisory Call recap summarizes specific actions leading health plans are taking, which include:
Today’s economic headwinds aren’t going away anytime soon. Get ideas for your plan by hearing what top health plans said in this Advisory Call.
That’s because RCM today is fraught with challenges. It is labor intensive, exists in silos, burdens employees, lacks data and results in revenue leakage.
A new whitepaper lays out a recipe for better RCM. Key elements of better RCM include making it holistic and more automated, using prescriptive analytics and payer performance management. Results include better communication, improved employee satisfaction, decreased revenue leakage and more data to use when engaging in negotiations with payers.
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Trends in healthcare payments will shift as the industry weathers financial instability, scarce resources, and staff burnout.
But even amid changing competitive and regulatory landscapes, many healthcare providers are thriving. They’re finding ways to do more with less, improve patient outcomes, and drive innovation.
Download this report to unlock current trends in healthcare payments for 2023, as well as proven strategies to help revenue cycle teams succeed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This whitepaper covers how to best support CFOs today, and how organizations can implement these five steps to improve financial health:
Learn what it takes to go from manual, Excel-based processes to real-time, data-driven decisions.
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:
This e-book comprises three case studies featuring large health systems — Cincinnati-based Mercy Health, Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare and Aurora, Colorado-based UCHealth. These organizations reduced costs and increased collections by delivering better patient financial care. Read this eBook to learn how your organization can:
These themes are further broken down based on survey answers to aide revenue cycle leaders with near- and long-term strategy and planning.
Read this report to learn how to retain patients in a competitive marketplace and keep your organization running smoothly.
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This e-book examines the future of healthcare finance and is informed by the real-world experience of hospital leaders and financial experts.
Key learnings include:
The tenets of agile financial planning
The keys to great financial partnerships
How a lean five-member finance team at a nonprofit provider transformed fiscal operations
Leaders are now exploring the need for scalable, innovative alternatives to succeed. But they also must contain costs. With data from more than 150 health plan, provider, employer, life science and government leaders, plus insights from industry experts, this research report checks in on:
Healthcare technology leaders must take action to modernize fraud protection. If they don't, the industry will continue to fall prey to many more of these schemes.
This two-part guide offers insights into emerging best practices in fraud protection. Key learnings include:
This white paper from R1 RCM will offer best practices to help health systems jump-start their financial recovery efforts. You will learn how implementing standardized processes, automation-driven technology and transparency allows hospitals to thrive financially.
To drive better payment results , healthcare organizations must shift to thinking of patients as travelers. Instead of viewing a fully paid balance as the fastest way to a destination, data analytics enable organizations to identify patients that may need to take a slower route, or payment plans, to pay their bills. Effective use of analytics can also pinpoint patients who would benefit most from financial assistance.
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This e-book will help get you started prioritizing the path toward a sounder financial footing. Seize the opportunity to truly meet the needs of everyone in your community by mastering the five fundamentals for financial performance in a new era of health care.
In this e-book, you'll learn how successful healthcare organizations handle their:
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.
Learnings include:
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.
Learning points:
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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:
Three learning points from the eBook:
Additional insights from the advisory call, featured in an e-Book sponsored by Flywire, include:
Every year, cardiometabolic conditions, including diabetes, cost employers and health plans upwards of $500 billion dollars. Continuing to treat these conditions in silos simply won't cut it: To realize better member outcomes and health plan savings, the full spectrum of these conditions needs to be addressed, and a single platform is supporting organizations to do it.
Read about a virtual care solution that can increase your health plan's ROI by:
Instead, health plans must work to identify an all-inclusive remedy that offers members a realistic and effective approach to diabetes management. This guide discusses the problems with "diabetes reversal," the connection between diabetes and mental health, and more.
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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.
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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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It includes perspectives on staff burnout, turnover, artificial intelligence and other topics capturing a holistic view of well-being in the industry.
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Four key findings:
Access this short case study to learn more about creating efficient processes and automation that can result in a savings of 20 percent on your labor spend.
This report spells out how to:
In this changing landscape, old processes like manually scanning and filing credentialing information can overwhelm staff and leave more room for errors and delays. A standardized online process can eliminate many of these issues — yet only 33 percent of healthcare organizations are using digital credentialing, according to a 2023 poll.
This white paper breaks down the digital credentialing process and explains how it increases speed and accuracy to keep your revenue intact.
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In the face of a provider shortage, disrupters are adding even more complexity to the already-challenging provider recruitment environment. This white paper from Provider Solutions & Development explores healthcare delivery disrupters, how they are making their mark and impacting the provider pipeline and what you can do to stay competitive.
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This groundbreaking work has placed the health system in a national leadership position for building an end-to-end, automated and digital supply chain across its network.
Read about Parkview Health's success in driving down costs, improving efficiencies and capitalizing on savings opportunities.
Key takeaways:
To better control costs and ensure access to flexible staffing options, some health systems have opted to establish internal agencies.
This whitepaper walks through the key components of establishing an internal agency, including the use of analytics, strategies to acquire staff, and deployment methodologies to deliver staff to areas of need.
In this whitepaper, you'll learn:
It also details how leading health systems like Intermountain Health have successfully deployed automation-based solutions to the tune of 68% completion of pre-visit registration and intake and a 300% increase in co-payment collections.
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This white paper offers a collection of short articles and tips sheets on recruiting and retaining nurses and healthcare staff, as well as how to make their work more manageable and gratifying.
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Five ways to attract new nurses to the field
Steps for boosting retention while recruiting
Technology that improves staffing efficiency and enables on-demand work
During a panel at Becker’s 7th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Annual Meeting, five health IT experts discussed the benefits of moving to the cloud and best practices for a seamless transition.
This whitepaper offers a summary of the discussion and includes insights from leader at the following health systems:
University of Maryland Medical System (Silver Spring)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville)
Michigan Medicine in (Ann Arbor)
CommonSpirit Health (Chicago)
This research report gathers perspectives from 150 healthcare leaders from providers, health plans and government agencies.
Key focus areas include:
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.
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 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.
Social determinants of health are responsible for 60 percent of health outcomes — and that's before factors like hospital quality and physician experience come into play, according to the CDC. Even as hospitals invest more in diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, a new survey reveals patients of color still have different healthcare experiences than their white counterparts.
Healthgrades BIPOC Healthcare Attitudes Survey uncovers what's behind this discrepancy to help hospitals better align DEI initiatives with patients' experiences.
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Providing these workers with the appropriate resources to manage their weight can improve employee retention and lower healthcare costs for both patients and payers.
In this white paper, you'll learn:
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At this time of profound staffing shortages, learn what industry leaders from around the country are doing to engage and retain their top talent.
But where can a hospital get support in the physician payment space? What options are out there? How can they evaluate them in an efficient manner?
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Healthcare leaders must examine how other resource-intensive industries like airline, package delivery, and rideshare services have successfully solved the complex operational challenge of matching supply and demand. The answer? Adopting machine learning, AI, and predictive and prescriptive analytics to drive operational decisions.
Sounds too good to be true? It's not. And many healthcare leaders are already reaping the rewards of AI by achieving hard ROI in challenging times. Fortunately, you can “stand on the shoulders” of your industry peers that have adopted AI:
Download this report to discover the key values and the biggest challenges for hospital purchasing leaders. Discover how they are addressing those challenges and where they are making critical investments for the future.
However, there are resources available to help health systems reduce staff workload and improve operational efficiency while enhancing the patient experience. Read this report to learn how your healthcare organization can bolster the patient experience amid unavoidable staffing limitations.
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Gartner Peer Insights and Firstup surveyed IT, HR, and internal communications leaders in the healthcare, retail, and manufacturing industry to see how communication and the digital employee experience impact an organization’s ability to recruit and retain its workforce in the current climate.
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North Carolina-based Cone Health was facing that kind of challenge and turned to Stories, Bamboo Health's care transitions assistant, which delivers relevant patient context within clinical workflows at the point of care.
Here's what Cone Health was able to do after using Stories for a 9-month period:
Healthcare is at a pivotal moment where the nurse-to-patient ratio gap is widening. To alleviate the stresses of this gap, facilities can create their own tech-enabled staffing pool rather than client-vendor relationships.
Transform the current approach to staffing through partnerships backed by technology, and learn more about end-to-end user experience creating efficiency.
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To accomplish purchased services goals, meaningful change is not achieved one contract at a time. Effective initiatives require a strategic, programmatic approach. Start with where your organization lies on the maturity continuum.
With excerpts from the new book Significant Figures: A Practical Guide to Unprecedented Cost Savings in Purchased Services, you'll have access to:
10 metrics of the Purchased Services Program Maturity Continuum assessment
6 strategic opportunities and actions to strengthen purchased services resiliency
5 traits of successful programs
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Executive health programs can give health systems a strategic competitive advantage and generate a predictable, currently unrealized revenue stream. However, operationalizing these programs can be taxing on existing resources, so having an expert partner in this endeavor can save you time and money opening a new entry point into your system.
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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.
In this case study, you'll learn how to:
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