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Safeguarding Healthcare’s Front Line: Why Rising Workplace Violence Demands Systemic Change
Frontline healthcare professionals are increasingly finding themselves in the crosshairs of workplace violence, and recent survey data makes one thing clear: incremental changes aren’t enough.
The Pace Quickens in Adoption of AI Tools for Clinical Care
The health system is planning on adopting new AI tools that will improve provider experience. One will help providers prepare for a patient encounter by looking at a patient’s history and summarizing the patient’s chart, and another will help providers after a patient encounter with functions such as helping with coding.
Are You Trading Efficiency for Safety in Your ASC?
ASCs have become central to the healthcare delivery system, and the market is ripe for innovation and growth. Outpatient facilities that provide surgical services offer patient satisfaction through lower costs and shorter stays. Providers gain efficiency and increased throughput.
How to Improve Onboarding of Advanced Practice Providers
In primary care, about 40% of Sentara Health’s clinician workforce consists of advanced practice providers. The health system is planning to increase that number, and they may surpass the number of physicians.
Independence Health System Tackles Workplace Violence
A study of outpatient physician clinics found that as many as 59.3% of physicians, 62.1% of nurses, 68.4% of receptionists, and 40.0% of technicians had experienced workplace violence. In 2023, the financial cost of workplace violence for hospitals was estimated at $18.27 billion, according to a study conducted by the American Hospital Association.
Healthcare Leaders Are Overlooking the Key to Value-Based Care Success: Physician-Level Measurement
The reality is that while VBC has generated innovative care models and some limited success—particularly in primary care and especially within accountable care organizations—the progress has been uneven and insufficient.
How ‘Top Gun’ and Technology Are Improving Patient Transfers
The so-called Top Gun initiative is a partnership between Mercy Health Toledo and Conduit Health Partners, the IT company launched out of the health system in 2018. The program creates a transparent tech platform that allows the health system to see into each hospital and coordinate non-emergency transfers, most often to Mercy Health-St. Vincent Medical Center, the network’s only Level One trauma center.
Do CIOs Need a New Virtual Care Strategy?
A new report from Sage Growth Partners finds that patient experience is moving quickly to the top of the list of strategic initiatives, and that executives are targeting virtual care and digital health as key channels to get in front of patients.
Finding True Value in AI for Smaller Health Systems
One tool that Dayton Children’s is embracing is ambient AI. The hospital became one of the first pediatric hospitals in the country to use the technology when it partnered with Abridge earlier this year to launch the tool.