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?
How Are Your Physicians Involved in Administrative Leadership?
For the medical staff, every clinical department at the hospital has physician leaders such as the chief of medicine and the chief of surgery who are elected by their peers. There is also a leadership team of physicians for the medical staff, which includes chief of staff, vice chief of staff, treasurer, and secretary.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 96 – Making the Most of SDoH Data
On episode 96 of PSQH: The Podcast, Kenneth Young, president and CEO of Medecision, talks about the importance of Social Determinants of Health data.
Amazon Takes on Health Systems with New Care Management Program
Health Condition Programs, which was unveiled on January 8 during the JP Morgan Conference, gives the online retail giant a significant platform in the healthcare space—and another reason for healthcare executives to fret about competition from disruptors. The service gives consumers a virtual link to a personalized care team to help manage their health.
Can AI Help Monitor Chemotherapy Side Effects?
The program works by creating a risk score for non-leukemia chemotherapy patients over 18 years old. As the program learns, it’s able to predict how likely it is that a patient who is experiencing symptoms will be hospitalized within 30 days after their chemotherapy treatment.