PSQH: The Podcast Episode 97 – The Benefits of Robotic Surgical Systems
On episode 97 of PSQH: The Podcast, Dr. Maria Iliakova, bariatric and general surgeon, talks about the benefits of robotic surgical systems.
A New Option to the Crowded ED: Concierge Care
Concierge care programs designed specifically for urgent and emergency care are finding support from consumers who don’t want to wait several hours in an ED, along with primary care providers who don’t want to send their patients there. The service offers a cash-only alternative to the ED and could pull more patients away from hospitals and health systems.
Virtual Nursing Playbook: Nursing Execs Explain the Keys to Success
Denver Health and HonorHealth’s CNO-CNIO teams share what it takes to stand up and evolve a virtual nursing program that fosters quality care and human connection from both sides of the screen.
How Can Hospitals Turn the Home Into a Healthcare Hub?
A panel discussion at last week’s CES 2024 event in Las Vegas brought to light the challenges facing healthcare organizations who want to use the home for care delivery. For while the technology is in place to deliver care, healthcare executives have to rethink how they collect and use data from the home and interact with consumers.
Why are Care Teams Essential to Your Health System or Hospital?
In a recent position paper, the American College of Physicians stressed the importance of physician-led care teams. Team-based care models have been linked to good patient health outcomes and better healthcare-professional collaboration.
Nurses on Strike: How CNOs Can Meet in the Middle
Nurses are frustrated, and the recent union activity is indicative of large, widespread problems in the nursing industry with staffing, work environment, and nurse wellbeing. While it is the CNO’s responsibility to address those issues and to facilitate those conversations, it can be quite difficult.
Stroke Management with Teleneurology
The number of neurologists already doesn’t cover the demand for their services, and they are also distributed unevenly, creating so-called “neurological deserts” where patients don’t have access to quality neurological care.
Addressing Quality in an Ocean of Healthcare Apps
Consumers not only have a dizzying array of choices to make but are often shepherded into unique digital tools based on their interaction with healthcare—and reaching a breaking point where too much choice leads consumers to decision paralysis and the choice to not interact with those tools at all.
Simple Visuals Enable Improved Vitals Monitoring
Since monitoring vital signs was first digitized in the 1970s, a lot has changed. The population has evolved, people live longer, therapies have vastly increased, and so the amount of information that can be made available about an individual patient has also increased.
Using Emerging Technologies to Improve Patient Experience
Opportunities present themselves where machine learning, improved integration, and customer self-service options can remove some of the administrative burden on staff so they can focus more of their attention on patient interactions, pulling information from texts, call logs, the EHR, and more, and provide them to staff in an easily digestible format. Are there ways healthcare can leverage AI to improve the patient experience?