Archived Whitepapers

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.

• Macro trends in specialty consolidation
• Types of consolidation business models
• Pros and cons of consolidation

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.

Download to learn more.

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.

Download this guide to learn:

• How providers handle claim status inquiries today
• Why current processes are inefficient
• How to solve claims status challenges

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:

• Best practices for practice design
• Insights on building clinical teams
• How to make continuous improvements to TJR programs

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.

Download this whitepaper to learn:

• Which factors were predictive of opioid use after surgery
• How interbody surface type was associated with postoperative opioid use

Key Points:

• Sagittal alignment is the most dominant radiographic predictor of outcomes in deformity patients
• UNiD™ Adaptive Spine Intelligence predictive models can successfully predict postoperative spinopelvic parameters in the instrumented and uninstrumented spine
• Degenerative patients have been found to be at 10 times greater risk for adjacent segment disease if their PI-LL mismatch is greater than 10 degrees

• How patients are choosing healthcare providers today
• Why price transparency is a must
• What patients are looking for in the care experience

• Highlights of the guidelines in an easy-to-read format.
• A comparison between auditory cueing and wireless patient monitoring technology.
• A case study showing how wireless patient monitoring improved efficiency for nursing staff and significantly reduced HAPI incidence in a 145-bed general hospital.

• Personalized care for each patient
• Digital turn reminders (in room and at the nurses’ station)
• Confirmation that patient turns have sufficiently offloaded pressure
• Automatically generated reports

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.

Download the special report to learn:

• Why women are missing out on care
• What obstacles prevent women from addressing health concerns
• The 3 biggest things women look for in a healthcare provider
• How marketers can enhance patient experiences and outcomes + 4 ways they can better serve women

• Automatic charting of patient vitals with wireless data streaming from anesthesia monitor machines
• On-the-go documentation with a mobile tablet that allows for real-time patient check-ins
• Improved patient safety and compliant documentation from pre-op to post-op and billing
• Increased staff satisfaction within an understaffed workforce

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:

• The problems hospital blood supply chains face today
• Why the role of point-of-care blood management systems is more critical than ever
• How point-of-care blood management systems help support transfusion safety, compliance and efficiency while reducing costs

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:

• Best-practices for implementing a sustainable and effective remote patient management program.
• How Grand Forks, N.D.-based Altru Health System achieved significant reductions in readmissions for specific clinical case uses and expanded its remote patient monitoring program.
• How remote patient monitoring programs can increase patient-provider communication, improve patient engagement and encourage patient self-management.

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.

Read more for insights on:

• The emerging role of primary care providers as key figures in contraceptive counseling, service delivery and access, and how leaders can support them in this role
• Navigating barriers to contraceptive care, such as insurance challenges
• Empowering staff to make time for contraceptive counseling and education and patient-centered care

• The importance of a comprehensive care experience within the healthcare system
• The biggest challenges for patients in adhering to post-discharge care plans
• How healthcare leaders and providers can provide multiple touchpoints and leverage digital tools to make adhering to a care plan at home easier for patients

• How IGRA blood tests use the latest field-proven medical technologies to yield a conclusive result 97 percent of the time
• How the IGRA saves patients and physicians time and stress
• Why the IGRA is ultimately the most cost-effective choice

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:

• How precision oncology has changed over time, and how the more recent "panoramic" approach is better positioning clinicians to choose the right treatments for patients
• Why standardization of care in precision oncology is critical for equitable care
• The benefits that a precision oncology program can bring to patients and communities + the infrastructure and processes organizations should consider in building a successful program

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:

• The dangers of unconscious bias in diagnostics
• The impact of inappropriate referrals
• Improving patient satisfaction and health equity

• Appropriate protection and comfort for any procedure
• The value of choosing the right drape and gown for each procedure
• How a healthy supply chain with state-side manufacturing can help keep shelves reliably stocked.

• Identifies patients with sepsis earlier with continuous alerts and reminders that guide care
• Improved SEP-1 bundle compliance by more than 20 percent over four months
• Achieved cumulative savings of $384,000 in four months

Key Learning Objectives:

• Learn how modern utilization management solves multiple challenges for healthcare organizations
• Understand the keys to empowering patients and reducing unnecessary costs by ensuring appropriate care
• Find out how modern independent clinical review works seamlessly with your organization to expand your capabilities

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.

在这个网络研讨会,领导人将分享如何吻rklin Clinic implemented an intelligent room scheduling system to address these challenges and grow patient volume without expanding physical space. Learn how the hospital achieved:

• A 7.4 percent increase in patient visits and 4.7 percent increase in clinic session volume
• Shortened patient wait times
• Reduced administrative burden and higher physician satisfaction

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:

• Which tools the majority of systems now have and consider table stakes
• Which tools are most underutilized by systems
• How to maximize staff and patient engagement

• Discover how Deviceless RPM strategies can increase staffing efficiency by up to 15x
• Learn from leaders at organizations in different stages of transitioning to value-based care
• Discover how Deviceless RPM can lead to improved chronic conditions outcomes and financial savings

In this whitepaper, Quest Diagnostics outlines the benefits of TB blood tests, including cost-savings, patient experience and more.

Key learning points:

• How TB blood tests reduce patient visits
• The objective, accurate results provided by blood tests
• How blood tests yield cost savings for both patients and providers

• Potential cost-savings from automated flushing
• The benefits of automated flushing vs. manual syringe flushing
• Solving for dehydration with automated flushing

• Improve "clean sigs" by 202 percent
• Automatically import 84 percent of prescription renewal data
• Save 100 hours of clinician data entry time
• Improve safety and decrease risk of errors

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.

本白皮书的特点从斯普林菲尔德的见解, Mass.-based Baystate Health and Oracle Cerner on:

• Overcoming barriers in implementing digital solutions
• The features of a strong digital front door
• The difference between digital front doors and digital practices
• Building organizational culture into digital transformation

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:

• Bridging information gaps to strengthen clinical judgement beyond onboarding
• Competency-based education focused on specific clinical environments
• Pre-skilling and immersion programs to transition nurses faster into leadership roles
• Emeritus roles for experienced nurses

Learn how leading organizations are improving nurse retention and preparing the next generation of high-performing nurses.

• Latest CDC guidance on workplace TB testing
• Benefits of IGRAs vs. traditional TSTs
• Best practices for pre-employment TB screening & post-exposure testing

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.

Read the white paper to learn:

• How embracing mobile communication helps healthcare organizations improve patient satisfaction
• Why embracing a mobile-first patient intake strategy helps providers save time and boost staff efficiency
• Tips about how to use mobile technologies to deliver the convenience and flexibility patients expect

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:

• 8 percent reduction in no-shows
• 74 percent digital conversion rate
• 51 percent increase in co-payment
• 96 percent patient satisfaction rating

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:

•  Identifying patients with sepsis earlier with real-time alerts and reminders that guide care
• Improving SEP-1 bundle compliance by more than 20 percent over four months
• Achieved cumulative savings of $384,000 in the four months since adopting Sentri7® Sepsis Monitor

• Foundational technological infrastructure needed to make progress on inequities – including data platforms and frameworks
• Datasets and analytics capabilities organizations need
• Talent and human capabilities required to turn data into insights and action

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:

• Actionable steps that healthcare organizations are taking to address health equity
• The main elements of health equity programs, budget commitments and status of the implementations
• Tools and technologies required to support organizations in achieving health equity
• Achieving health equity will take significant time, effort and investment. Discover what steps industry leaders are taking– and what your organization can do right now – to address this issue

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:

• What are the top three workplace stressors
• How technology choices matter in deciding where to work
• Nurses' #1 rated technology tool and why it’s critical in day-to-day job satisfaction

• Amanda Loney, BScN, RN, wound, ostomy and continence consultant, Bayshore Home Care Solutions, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
• Abbé Benoit, BSN, RN, clinical resource specialist, Smith+Nephew

• How pain has a direct effect on the healing process
• How to determine when negative pressure wound therapy is appropriate
• How negative pressure wound therapy solutions can help to improve the patient experience
• How best practices can include use of both traditional and single use negative pressure wound therapy

• The burden of hospital-acquired pressure injuries
• Key challenges in preventing the complication
• Best practices for implementing a sustainable pressure injury prevention program from Mayo Clinic Florida

• Identifying focus areas in genomics related to clinical utility
• Leveraging strategic partnerships to accelerate clinical deployment and care improvement
• Connecting genomic data with clinical data to create value from a research, discovery and data science perspective

• The improvements Catholic Health System saw in equipment utilization, cleanliness, and safety
• How the health system leveraged the program to increase staff satisfaction and face time with patients
• Lessons learned for successful adoption of an MME management system

• A Hedge Against Workforce Challenges and Margin Compression
• A More Cost-Effective Pathway, Solving for Repetitive Readmissions
• Appeal with Post-Covid Consumer Expectations

• Causes of diagnostic errors and delays
• Impacts of misdiagnosis
• How to help your staff be well equipped to accurately diagnose patients

• 第一时刻,当医疗欺诈sumer is "shopping" for a hospital and is making a decision on where to receive care services.
• The second Moment of Truth, when the healthcare consumer experiences the hospital’s services.
• Touchpoints that strengthen or detract from that brand experience.

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.

• See the huge impact the system made on protocol adherence and incidence of pressure injuries.
• 1 randomized controlled trial
• 7 conference abstracts
• Study results included both clinical and health economic data

The LEAF System combines wearable patient sensors with a user interface, offering:

• Personalized care for each patient
• Digital turn reminders (in room and at the nurses’ station)
• Confirmation that patient turns have sufficiently offloaded pressure
• Automatically generated reports that can be used for root cause analysis

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:

• 4 ways to decrease length of stay and address the staffing crisis
• How a seven-hospital health system reduced emergency department visits for high-utilizers by 20 percent
• How to reduce the workloads of bedside providers

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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• When is PPE required in my facility?
• Is one piece of PPE all that is needed?
• Where can I get the PPE I need?

Using AccuReg EngageCare Provider for automated quality assurance, real-time eligibility and benefits verification, and price estimation and payments, KSB did the following:

• Reduced denials from 21 percent to 7 percent
• Prevented an average of $800,000 per month in denied charges—a savings of $20 million in revenue
• Improved first-pass initial accuracy rates from 63 percent to 95 percent and final accuracy from 80 percent to 99 percent
• Reduced staff turnover from 42 percent to 25 percent

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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• Timing matters — preventative care is critical to employees to maintain wellbeing and catch any underlying conditions early on
• The effects care delays have on both patients and clinicians
• Real-world examples of how healthcare navigation mitigates the effects of delayed care for patients.

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:

• Gather data from 120 local and independent pharmacies
• Achieve a medication reconciliation "hit rate" of more than 93 percent
• Reduce the need for phone calls and manual entry

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:

• Review ordering trends that are the driving sources of inappropriate laboratory utilization
• Understand the effect of inappropriate ordering on the laboratory's financial health
• Learn how to identify large financial and clinical wins across the spectrum of testing from genetics to daily labs.

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:

• How the effective management of medical devices can improve nurse satisfaction
• Innovative technologies that are easing administrative burdens and improving efficiency
• The consequences of non-clinical staff shortages, and recruiting and retention strategies to combat them

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:

• Why implementing modern preoperative processes can save time and money
• How to tailor the preadmission testing process to the procedures performed
• How an efficient preadmission testing process can improve collaboration and communication

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.

在本白皮书中,您将了解六混乱关系的关键nds 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:

• Growing consumerism
• Rising competition
• Reimbursement becoming tied to patient experience
• Declining reimbursement and increasing denials
• Hospitals carrying significant bad debt
• Centralized communication

Download this white paper and learn how to sustain successful hospital medicine programs. Discover:

• Improving quality of care through enhanced team culture and collaboration.
• Boosting key metrics including pre-discharge follow-up and sepsis compliance, while reducing barriers to care such as high length of stay.
• Creating facility-wide improvements through purposeful partnerships with hospital leadership and other specialty clinical departments.

从美国医学Associ国家发现ation'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:

• Do care teams feel valued by their organization?
• How is workload, work pace and EHR stress affecting residents?
• How is burnout affected by other residency experiences, like sleep and peer support?
• What organizational resources are available for improved resident well-being?

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.

Key learning points:

• How persistent issues, such as staffing shortages and clinical staff behavioral health, can affect patient safety
• How bias and racism can undermine perceptions, behaviors, and outcomes related to safety
• How pandemic-related challenges affect care, including issues such as supply chain disruptions, products subject to emergency use authorization, and operationalizing telehealth
• Recommendations for systems-based approaches to eliminate risks and achieve total systems safety

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.

Download the whitepaper to learn about:

• Avoiding medication errors
• Preventing adverse drug events
• Reducing hospital readmissions
• Staff satisfaction with technology

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:

• What patients want from the healthcare payment experience
• Key payment challenges for health systems
• How Cancer Treatment Centers of America offers flexible and convenient financing options for patients

Download this white paper and learn:

• The urgency to offer highly engaging digital experiences
• Where patient engagement falls short
• The key to successful mobile strategy

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:

• What patients value most in a primary care experience
• 初级保健医生的障碍
• How health systems can better address their community's needs with patient-centered primary care solutions

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.

Download this whitepaper to discover:

• The four challenges facing payers in delivering diabetes care
• How Integrating mental and physical health can save 16-28 percent of all costs
• How patient-centered care increases member engagement and satisfaction

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:

• How WakeMed’s cardiac ERAS program reduced patients’ ICU and hospital length of stay, opioid use, GI complications, reintubation rates, and ICU readmission rates
• How outstanding clinical outcomes increased patient and surgeon satisfaction, and produced operational efficiencies that contributed to better financial performance, including fewer patient-bed days, increased case volume, and an approximately $5 million reduction in cardiothoracic ICU insurance payments
• How NAPA’s anesthesia-driven, value-based approach promotes safer patient care and a stronger hospital balance sheet.

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:

• Why reporting harm early is so important
• How early reporting influences both expenses and the life cycle of a case
• The elements of a successful communication and resolution program
• How to foster a workplace culture that promotes reporting

Read how AI-driven CAPD solutions helped healthcare organizations, including Ardent Health Services and Halifax Health:

• Analyze relevant notes to identify undocumented diagnoses and comorbidities, and document them to withstand audit scrutiny
• Reduce severity of illness score by 41 percent and risk of mortality score by 49 percent
• Reduce retrospective severity queries to physicians by 63 percent

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.

Download this whitepaper to learn:

• How vaccination affects the likelihood and severity of long COVID-19
• How to use data sets to understand complex interactions and drive hypothesis creation that supports clinical research
• Recommendations for further investigation and policy work

找出ServiceNow®可以帮助提供ectivity 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:

• How to effectively leverage the right IT solutions to lessen clinical burden
• The internal and external stressors contributing to clinical burden, and how to minimize them in meaningful ways

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:

• Defeating burnout with a culture of respect.
• Reducing wait times and optimizing technology by analyzing what truly adds value for patients.
• Improving equity by consistently weighing the social dimensions of policies, programs and services.

In this white paper, you’ll learn how to:

• Improve speed to care by reducing time needed to manage communication
• Instantly receive critical results, code alerts or patient communications
• Embed into the EMR, integrate with nurse call or alarm middleware

Develop a strategy for getting shared devices to nurses and equip them with the tools needed for today’s healthcare organizations.

• How to benchmark surgical productivity
• 确定最有效的改进的领域
• Why digital preoperative readiness is essential

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.

解决方案在于技术的采用d 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.

Download this eBook to learn:

• How to move past barriers to precision diagnostics adoption
• Approaches to leverage pharmacogenomics expertise
• How Precision Health Insight Networks are helping healthcare organizations bring precision health to scale.

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.

最近的一项调查由霜和沙利文佤邦s 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.

• The importance of a partnership perspective
• Using care insights to drive success
• Collaboration and care insights in the real world
• How clinical collaboration groups improve stakeholder engagement across the care continuum

• Learn the typical driving factors of poor glycemic management in the hospital.
• Understand the correlation between uncontrolled blood glucose and increased length of stay, cost of care and readmission rates.
• See real results from real hospitals that are using an eGlycemic Management System to reliably and consistently reduce the incidence of hypoglycemic and hyperglycemia in your healthcare system.

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:

• Defining your workforce equity goals
• Building equity into your leadership plan
• Ensuring equitable care across a diverse set of patients
• Making equity a part of your purpose and mission
• Building the business case to support resource allocations
• Addressing root causes of inequity in the broader community
• Enabling a diverse, inclusive workforce
• Activating your community relationships

In this guide, discover how to empower your clinical staff to:

• Diagnose and treat patients efficiently and effectively
• Enhance patient outcomes
• Develop advanced critical thinking skills

Learn how Carle Health and Change Healthcare:

• built a lab stewardship program that relies on CareSelect® Lab to address lab overutilization and low-value testing
• gained access to an aggregated view of its data to decide which undesirable ordering behaviors to target—and where and how to target them
• leveraged evidence-based guidelines authored by Mayo Clinic and provider communication to significantly reduce inappropriate ordering

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:

• Why traditional multimodal pain programs that attempt to reduce opioids are inefficient
• The benefits of an updated inpatient pain management approach that relies on pre-defined patient risk categories
• How leveraging anesthesia expertise in this new approach to perioperative pain management saves time for busy hospitalists while improving patient safety and satisfaction

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:

• How the pandemic exposed PPE supply chain issues
• The importance of diversifying suppliers to increase resiliency
• Key considerations in selecting a PPE supplier

• Connect care teams and proactively reach patients at home
• Empower every employee to address patient needs efficiently
• Personalize patient engagement using data insights

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.

Download our clinical confidence guide to:

• Bolster clinical confidence by focusing on purposeful innovation.
• Address the five leading factors that contribute to clinical burnout.
• Improve patient care, using lessons from other health systems that have leveraged technology.

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:

• Positive impacts that NAVIFY® Tumor Board had on case preparation, case discussion time and case postponement rates at the test site
• Potential operational benefits seen at test site, including additional cases discussed and working days saved

• Implications of the shift from inpatient to outpatient procedures and more patients heading home sooner
• Opportunities to implement at-home compression therapy for VTE risk reduction

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.

Read this whitepaper to learn:

• Who is most (and least) likely to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
• 为什么healthcare consumers might avoid a COVID-19 vaccination.
• How psychographic segmentation can facilitate uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine.

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:

• When it comes to treating LEP, Deaf and HoH patients, providers need a fast, easy-to-use solution to effectively communicate.
• Just as providers are committed to effectively treating patients, medical interpreters are committed to facilitating meaningful understanding between healthcare providers and patients from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
• The use of professional language services has been proven to improve the LEP patient experience and reduce the likelihood of readmissions.

But many questions remain. In this report, Optum surveyed more than 161 health care leaders from health plans, providers and life sciences and asked:

• Where are we making progress?
• What challenges still exist?
• Which areas do you prioritize for investment?

In this whitepaper, you’ll learn:

• Key AI technologies used by clinical digital assistants and what is technically possible today
• Five stages clinical assistants must go through to evolve
• Technical milestones needed to ultimately achieve a truly ambient clinical digital assistant

As our country’s healthcare labor shortage looms, the need to ensure the safety of residents of all states has never been more acute.

Download this white paper to learn more about:

• The impacts of the current nursing shortage
• How a national license could improve healthcare
• Implementing a national model

• Why investing in technology — despite budget challenges — is important
• The AI frameworks and capabilities that are still missing across the industry
• How some technologies are unburdening staff and enhancing patient care

• Why future iterations of telehealth technologies must be simplified
• How an increased demand for telehealth caused organizations to reassess their digital strategies
• The importance of a laser-sharp focus on data security and compliance
• Technologies that can propel the patient journey forward

• Engages the members most likely to benefit from specific programs.
• Optimizes clinical resources’ scope of practice.
• Improves member engagement and health outcomes.
• Drives down health care costs across populations.

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.

Read more to learn:

• How staff shortages are impacting care gaps
• Patient-centric tools that promote preventive care and help manage chronic conditions
• Common missteps in implementing digital interventions and how to avoid them

• Overcome top data sharing and access challenges in health systems
• Unlock trapped data in healthcare's 9 billion faxed documents sent each year
• Implement three strategies to eliminate data silos in healthcare

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:

• Make internal cultural shifts to overcome cloud adoption concerns
• Guide your decisions about implementation and integration strategies
• Understand the impact your cloud strategy has on care quality

• Accelerate the speed to adapt to changing care requirements
• Improve clinician and patient management
• Dramatically heighten patient satisfaction
• Achieve seamless governance, risk and compliance management

Download the white paper to learn key takeaways with valuable, first-hand insights on how to
incorporate cloud into healthcare operations in the most effective way.

Key Points:

• Learn how to control security risks by limiting cloud provider and integrations
• Create criteria to evaluate cloud hosting providers for your organization’s specific needs
• Adopt a “why not cloud” approach to assessing cloud investments

Explore further possible uses for telehealth such as:

• Field emergency responses connecting unskilled responders to medical help
• Providing support to smaller hospitals in underserved communities
• “Tele-triage” to help relieve ER overcrowding and screen patients awaiting treatment

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:

• How clinical workflow automation software can help improve efficiency and save staff time
• How the software can improve revenue capture by providing documentation needed for reimbursement.
• How healthcare organizations can use the software in a variety of clinical areas

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:

• How digital care tools can reduce average sitter hours
• How AI patient monitoring can reduce patient falls
• How digital care tools can decrease fall alert response time

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

本白皮书探讨卫生系统的步骤can take to upgrade manual patient engagement to digital processes for closing referral gaps.

Read more to learn about:

• The inefficiencies in the referral management process + impact on patients and practitioners
• Opportunities for automation in patient engagement for referrals, like SMS or phone-based notifications, and how health systems can get started implementing these
• The success Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin realized in using its EHR-embedded patient engagement platform to create a closed-loop referral management workflow

• Ways to lead with open and honest communication to provide compassionate financial care
• Strategies to create better connections with patients
• How to improve patients' knowledge about payments

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:

• Siloed information within the EHR and between health IT systems
• Varied data accessibility
• Inadequate capture of detail or specificity
• Inconsistent data structure; and
• Variations in clinical terminology

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:

• What the survey findings reveal about the future of virtual care and health systems
• Some of the barriers holding back telehealth expansion and the resources healthcare organizations need to surmount those barriers
• How staffing models need to evolve to continue delivering the benefits of telehealth adoption amid persistent workforce shortages

• Increased access to care for patients
• Higher revenues for provider organizations
• Improved clinician satisfaction

Key Takeaways:

• Understand how an ongoing commitment to continuous improvement can increase cost savings, drive operational efficiency and reduce waste.
• Measure inventory performance with accurate analytics and analyze real-time data using the right technology.
• Identify the financial impact of unused materials resulting from out-of-date surgeon preference cards.

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

• How health systems are reaping the benefits of cloud technology for medical imaging
• The four pillars for optimized medical imaging data use and storage

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:

• 为什么healthcare leaders feel better prepared for the next crisis
• How technology can augment staffing – before and during a crisis
• Why connecting point solutions to the IT infrastructure for specific use cases can have tremendous value
• The importance of smart technology investments

• Brian Dawson, MSN, system vice president of perioperative services at CommonSpirit Health (Chicago)
• Ira Martin, DNP, RN, former assistant chief nursing officer with HCA Healthcare (Nashville, Tenn.)
• Patrick McGill, MD, executive vice president and chief transformation officer of Community Health Network (Indianapolis)
• Cindy Russo, BSN, president of Trumbull Regional Medical Center (Warren, Ohio) and former COO of Steward Health Care's Ohio/Pennsylvania region
• Lori Wightman, vice president of nursing/chief nursing officer of SCL Health (Broomfield, Colo.)

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:

• The cost of empathy deficiencies – and how to avoid them
• Three ways to foster human-centred experiences throughout your organization
• 如何利用实时数据,闭环过程ses, and AI to modernize your experience programs

• Replaced costly 1:1 sitters with 1:12 virtual monitoring solutions
• Saved $23 million in labor costs
• Decreased patient fall rates systemwide

• How enterprise resilience protects patient safety and cuts costly organizational downtime
• What enterprise resilience plans should cover & key considerations for where to focus initial efforts
• The value of immutable IT infrastructures & how employee training fits into enterprise resilience

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:

• Repetitive tasks within EHR workflows

• 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.

Download the report to learn about:

• The hospital's three-step approach to managing high-risk patients
• How to prevent medication errors and readmissions among ED patients
• How to achieve greater staff satisfaction with technology

• The magnitude of fraud in healthcare
• Drawbacks of the rules-based approach used by many organizations
• Why leading healthcare organizations are turning to AI for data protection and fraud prevention
• Specific solutions that can reduce fraud, waste and abuse

Learn how top healthcare organizations met these challenges with a new healthcare integration engine and experienced:

• 78 percent faster legacy interface conversion
• Deployment of 2,000 interfaces in less than two years
• Zero hours of unscheduled downtime
• Millions of dollars in savings

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:

• Current levels of burnout
• Top factors driving burnout (many are controllable)
• Use of and satisfaction with telehealth
• Applications of video communication other than telehealth
• Ways that communication technologies can improve employee satisfaction

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:

• New porous PEEK technology produced higher osseointegration capability when compared to solid PEEK, solid titanium and porous titanium in cell culture.
• New technology possessed higher fusion and quality of fusion grades at 12- and 26-weeks post-op when compared to solid PEEK.
• New technology Proved to obtain new bone formation throughout porous structure.

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:

• 5 leaders on their system’s most valuable patient experience strategy this year
• NewYork-Presbyterian CXO Rick Evans: Patient experience is rebounding, but our work is not over
• A powerful way to start a medical appointment? With non-medical questions

• The goals, promise and benefits of connected healthcare
• Opportunities for connected ecosystems to improve patient and provider experiences
• Barriers that must be addressed to achieve truly connected healthcare
• Tips for communicating with and engaging patients in using connected digital tools Learn the benefits to your organization and patients from realizing the vision of connected healthcare and discover what it will take to get there.

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

• Tactics for driving digital patient engagement and boost self-pay collections via intelligent automation
• How to solve revenue growth during an economic downturn by improving the digital front door
• Frameworks for a data-driven improvement cycle that provides structure for revenue growth

• How advances in language services and technology are improving access to care for limited English proficient, deaf or hard of hearing patients
• Why ensuring health equity in telehealth programs is a necessary and vital element of a successful strategy
• Strategies to define telehealth roles and secure talent with the right competencies to fill them

• Centra Health (Lynchburg, Va.)
• Cedars-Sinai (Los Angeles)
• Hackensack Meridian Health (Edison, N.J.)
• Penn State Health (Hershey, Pa.)
• Prisma Health (Columbia, S.C.)
• Steward Health Care (headquartered in Dallas)

• How the pandemic drove these health systems to innovate behavioral healthcare delivery
• Why digital interventions may be the next wave of innovation
• Best practices and case studies from behavioral health leaders from across the country
  
  

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.

Download this whitepaper to learn how to:

• Use integration to improve workflows and patient outcomes while consolidating technology solutions
• How a patient engagement platform helps health systems maximize their EHR investment

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:

• New evidence demonstrating reduced cost of care and improved clinical outcomes
• Considerations for programs that manage acute, post-discharge, and chronic care patients
• Best practices to deliver remote care in the home

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:

• Improve patient experience and drive brand loyalty
• Increase revenue and profits while lowering costs
• Lower employee attrition while boosting productivity

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.

除了延迟情况下,缓慢的手术室put, 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.

在威尔明顿,美国新汉诺威地中海地区ical 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.

Download this case study to learn:

• The benefits of monetizing the perioperative surgical home program
• How perioperative surgical home program can increase operating room utilization, first case on-time starts and patient and surgeon satisfaction
• How a perioperative surgical home program has decisive impacts on patients, surgeons, efficiency and profitability

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:

• Transforaminal approach with a long fusion for scoliosis
• Anterior approach to address anterolisthesis with lateral listhesis
• Lateral approach for disc degeneration and foraminal stenosis

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.

Download this short report to learn:

• How HMCC reduced length of stay for its managed patients from 25 days to 21 days, resulting in $681,000 in savings
• How HMCC was able to earn $1,258,180 in shared savings under MSSP in just one year
• A real-world example on how Pings effectively coordinated care for a patient who fell while visiting a friend out of state

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.

Key Learnings:

• Seven findings from American Medical Association studies where prior authorization caused time, money and health outcome detriments
• Two trends contributing to prior authorizations challenges
• Four faith-building statistics from an America's Health Insurance Plans study about the use of digital tools for prior authorization

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.

Key learning points:

• An overview of what the CareRev app offers nursing leaders
• 它使护理领导人如何确保灵活吗staffing and organizational resilience
• 为什么healthcare professionals consistently book shifts through CareRev's technology solution

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.

Read the white paper to learn:

• How patients feel about using self-service technology to manage their healthcare experience
• Digital strategies you can implement to increase access, activate patients and make payments easier
• Ways to identify third-party vendors that keep patients’ sensitive health information secure
• A 3-step checklist to successfully introduce new technologies to your patients

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:

• Applying AI to health care operations
• Identifying AI specific tools that are critical to success
• Revealing a new hospital operations use case that employs AI

Download this two-page report to get a grasp of the why and how behind incorporating human-centered design into health tech solutions.

Key learning points:

• 以用户为中心的设计和胡的区别man-centered design
• Best practices for involving clinicians in the design process
• The benefits human-centered design has for patients and providers

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.

In this whitepaper you will learn:

• Why the pursuit of cost-effective growth cannot be solved by continually increasing staffing levels
• How digitized intake can capture accurate patient information on the front-end to improve clinical outcomes and maximize revenue
• Why patient self-scheduling accelerates patient acquisition and retention

In this whitepaper, readers will:

• Learn the definition and value of conversational engagement
• Understand how healthcare providers can use conversational engagement to scale patient interactions
• Integrate conversational engagement with existing digital experiences to build patient loyalty

Learn how to improve patient acquisition, retention, and loyalty. In this guide, we’ll walk you through:

• The comprehensive strategies, technologies, and proven best practices to advance digital transformation
• Where top organizations are investing today to build a solid foundation for PX's future

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

• Why providers are embracing a digital-first mindset
• How telehealth can help mitigate staff shortages and boost patient access
• Telehealth's role in future care delivery models

The insights in this ebook can empower finance and supply chain managers to reduce spend and improve compliance every day.

Learnings include:

• Why disparate systems for managing supplies will only ever provide some of the data needed for informed decision-making.
• How visibility of the supply chain creates opportunities for reduced spend and better resource allocation.
• Why empowering the right people with the right tools is critically important to being proactive and being able to capitalize on significant opportunities.

This migration can relieve the financial burden of EHR investment, while also making it simpler for providers to adapt to new challenges.

Download this whitepaper to learn:

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?

Download this checklist to discover ways to:

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.

In this whitepaper, learn how to:

• Boost operating room and resource utilization
• Automate manual work to reduce staff workload
• Drive immediate bottom-line improvements
• Optimize referrals and prevent leakage
• Improve surgeon satisfaction

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
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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.

• Digital health strategy exists in name only – and that must change.
• Health systems need to swap vendor contracts for true partnerships to succeed on consumerism.
• To achieve virtual care integration, health systems must secure operational buy-in from the start.
• Scale is a catch-22. Proceed with caution.

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.

Read this white paper to learn:

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:

• Rush University Medical Center in Chicago
• UCHealth in Aurora, Colo.
• Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tenn.

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:

• Staffing shortages
• Provider burnout
• Delayed and avoided care
• Consumerism
• Health equity
• Expanding access

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:

• How asynchronous telemedicine improves patient experience and loyalty by offering convenience and reduced costs, resulting in newly acquired patients and downstream revenue
• How asynchronous intelligent interviews improve clinical efficiency and directly solve for delayed and avoided care by increasing productivity by 56 percent
• How asynchronous virtual care improves access and health equity for rural, disadvantaged and non-English-speaking populations

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.

Download this white paper to learn about initiatives at Olive, the automation company:

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.
partne平台提供医疗技术rs 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.

Download this whitepaper to learn how:

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.连接扩展护理和至关重要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.

Download this whitepaper to learn:

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.

• Learn about unique third-party remote access risks to the healthcare industry - Better understand industry compliance
• Protect access credentials and permissions
• Evaluate compliance using our HIPAA and HITECH checklist

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:

• Challenges and opportunities of shifting ENT procedures to the office
• How single-use microdebriders can expand the scope of ENT care delivered in-office and reduce cost of care

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:

• Delivering on expectations for personalization
• Ensuring privacy
• Providing trusted, compliant communication

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.

Here's what you'll get:

• The hottest topics among healthcare providers today
• The benefits of connected content— and how to build your business case
• The 9 key next steps to get you there

These 10 articles examine current challenges and opportunities in the healthcare experience. Collectively, they amount to actionable guidance for digital health investment. Articles include:

• The top-rated hospitals for patient experience, state-by-state
• Game-changing EHR improvements at Intermountain, UCLA, and 6 other systems
• How one hospital CIO managed to grow his ranks during the pandemic

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.

本白皮书指出了纳税人可以自动化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:

• Online support communities
• Self-monitoring apps and devices
• Performance scorecards
• Interactive online health education

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:

• An overview of CMS requirements for its Acute Hospital Care at Home Program
• How an end-to-end AI platform supports earlier interventions, thereby improving outcomes and lowering costs
• Steps and considerations to adopt and scale an acute care at home solution

We put together this whitepaper to guide you through that process. It addresses:

• Why you should consider telepsychiatry
• Considerations for your needs assessment
• The questions you should ask telepsychiatry vendors
• How you can streamline program implementation

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.

Read the whitepaper to learn:

• How health systems are integrating telehealth into the EHR to streamline patient and provider experiences
• How two health systems successfully brought telehealth and the EHR together
• How telehealth should set its sights on integration across the care continuum

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:

• Referrals and transitions of care
• Imaging integrations
• Unique device identifiers
• Plug and play integrations

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.

Read this case study to learn how to:

• Overcome common cost, logistics, and enrollment challenges when scaling RPM to tens of thousands of patients by going Deviceless
• Build an automated post-discharge workflow enabling outreach and enrollment to every patient, regardless of risk status, within 3 hours of discharge, with no lift from the care team
• Help population health care managers manage 10x the national average patient caseload by transforming care management from a manual outbound call model to an automated inbound

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.

Complete the form to get the whitepaper to learn how to:

• Build long-term strategic partnerships that enhance the success of the EHR implementation.
• Understand how to improve clinical outcomes, optimize operations, and enhance user and patient satisfaction through the EHR.
• Discover best practices that result in timely billing, fewer denials, enhanced patient accessibility and overall improved customer satisfaction.

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.

Download this visual white paper authored by Frost & Sullivan to discover cloud migration strategy success factors and learn:

• Short- and long-term benefits that cloud-native can deliver that other cloud-based technologies cannot
• Critical success factors for evaluating potential partners
• Security and efficient data migration considerations
• Business case considerations and ROI expectations

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:

• Identify the cost implications behind hidden data.
• Aggregate data from across the implant lifecycle, including explants, recalls and warranty claims processing.
• Automate processes and present key data in a meaningful way that help hospitals and health systems cut the substantial cost.
• Make visible the information for enterprise-level strategies that lead to impressive bottom-line results.

是一个技术和PINC AITM智能引擎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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• 79%的病人更愿意接受notification when their provider is ready to see them, rather than wait in a virtual waiting room.
• Mobile devices and why they are still the telehealth platform most preferred by patients.
• Telemedicine platforms that optimize for audio-only patient access allow for more equitable provision of virtual care services.

• Task-based workflows are emerging as alternatives to business-application-based workflows
• Semantic automation revolutionizes robotic process automation
• CIOs are raising automation to the enterprise level

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.

Whitepaper takeaways:

• How to navigate patients to the right point of care using symptom checkers and triage tools
• How patient data generated from symptom checkers can support medical consultations
• Strategies to connect symptom checker users to provider booking systems

This whitepaper will explain how the right safety and security management software can help healthcare organizations meet compliance standards and create a safer workplace.

Download this whitepaper to learn:

• Best practices for establishing and demonstrating your environment of care
• How complete, organized and easy-to-analyze data can help solve compliance challenges, track trends and create a safer environment
• Compliance-supporting features to look for in security management software

• EHR and digital front door solutions are not a digital transformation strategy
• Cultivate a culture of urgency; New competitors are more consumer-savvy
• Digital transformation defined; It’s about winning and retaining more patients for your system

Learning points:

• Understand the critical role culture and leadership play in establishing and sustaining a high reliability environment
• Learn why it’s essential to integrate clinical, operational, and cultural data to get to the root of systemic problems that could cause harm
• Discover why embracing continuous learning helps teams identify, implement, and sustain improvements that produce meaningful results
• Appreciate the importance of a defined and evidence-based operating model for deploying and sustaining a high reliability strategy.
• See how to foster individual and organizational mindfulness to identify risks early, reduce the chances for error, build community, and improve performance

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:

• How streamlining operations can support better care and expand health equity
• How better data can build organizational resilience
• Why true transformation requires a technology-first approach

This report outlines five key actions healthcare leaders must take to end the call center in its current form.

Download the report to learn:

• The market forces that will continue to push healthcare towards touchless, self-service processes
• How automation and digitization can address the most common roadblocks to seeking care, from registration to scheduling
• Why intelligent automation must eliminate backend work in addition to optimizing frontend experiences

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:

• How hospitals are benefiting from location data and IoT-enabled solutions
• Determining which technologies your organization should prioritize
• Real-world success stories of how U.S. healthcare systems are deploying these technologies

Download this whitepaper to learn:

• How persistent technology issues, including cybersecurity, can put patients at risk
• How critical issues with medical devices can lead to medication errors and increase patient risk
• How supply chain issues, artificial intelligence, personal protective equipment and telehealth may affect patients and staff
• Steps to take to manage these risks and encourage safe healthcare technology use throughout your organization

The pandemic sped up the timeline.

现在,最积极的医疗组织re 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:

• The basic components of virtual care, including the easy-to-use technology involved to interact with patients and bedside staff
• The policies and workflows that best support virtual nursing staff and make for easy implementation
• How virtual nurses can use specialized care resources to alleviate existing staff

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:

• Care Gaps and HCC reminders
• Order tests, medications and labs
• Work down backlogs of charting

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:

• Yale New Haven Health saved 470 hours of nurses' time in 1 year with EHR tool
• NewYork-Presbyterian CXO's: 7 principles to maintain relationships with patients in a world of transactions
• 10 hospital innovation execs on how their role has evolved during the pandemic

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.

Download this white paper to learn:

• The current state of third-party security among healthcare organizations
• The unique challenges around access rights that the healthcare sector faces
• How critical access management can mitigate the risk of third-party threat

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.

Download this whitepaper to learn how the Brigham team used digital whiteboards in the ED to:

• Display personalized, real-time education and information to patients and loved ones throughout their stay
• Integrate with the EMR to automate clinical workflow and remove administrative tasks for clinicians
• Customize in-room communication to increase portal enrollment, streamline scheduling, and improve care coordination

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:

• Assess specific cyber threats to the healthcare industry
• Understand the underwriting landscape for different cyber risk
• Make cyber risk a key consideration in your business planning and strategy

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.

Read this whitepaper to learn:

• Essential ROI-driving factors for a comprehensive compliance program
• How to better position your program to receive adequate support and resources
• The key roles that configurability and analytics play

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:

• The value of an enterprise-wide scheduling solution
• Three questions to ask when auditing your scheduling workflows
• Key considerations when evaluating technology vendors

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:

• The benefits of outsourcing your healthcare technology to a trusted partner.
• 5 Insights for Choosing a healthcare IT partner in 2022
• Behaviors that trustworthy partners exhibit.

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:

• Achieving health equity goals
• Automating workflows
• Gaining tangible cost savings

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:

• How to scale up automation initiatives
• How to drive greater efficiency through technology
• How to translate AI investments into real value

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.

Download the whitepaper to learn:

• The five most common pitfalls to avoid in prior authorization automation
• What questions to ask of potential automation partners
• How revenue cycle staff can more successfully obtain prior authorizations the first time and prevent costly back-and-forth

学习为什么interoperabi下载这个白皮书lity and cybersecurity are critical health system investments. You’ll learn:

• How health systems can leverage interoperability and cybersecurity to help increase clinical confidence, optimize clinical and operational workflows, and extend care delivery
• Where cybersecurity risks lie
• How health systems are using interoperability to drive better patient care

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• Reasons why leading health systems implemented asynchronous telehealth as a key tool for improving care delivery
• Learnings from the origins of asynchronous telehealth
• Common misconceptions of asynchronous technology, debunked
• Ways to measure the value of implementing an asynchronous solution

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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• Improve healthcare data exchange
• Streamline providers' workflows
• Meet regulatory pressures

• Improve surgeon access to OR time
• Align OR staff to surgical demand
• Grow surgical volume

• 为什么healthcare organizations are choosing to move their content services to the cloud
• How to prioritize your cloud projects effectively
• 云depl的量化和额外的好处oyment
• ROI assessment results for three healthcare organizations

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:

• Learn about the foundations of cybernetics and how it uses technology to form efficient workflows.
• Analyze avenues for technological investment and new means to enhance the ROI of human productivity.
• Hear firsthand accounts of how health systems are using cybernetics to improve efficiency, improve efficiency, provide real time intelligence to the workforce and reduce errors.
• Learn how this new technology can reduce the overall burden and burnout of workers without workflow disruption, freeing up their capacity to focus on more important things such as patient care.

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.

In this ebook, you’ll learn:

• How automation can save your organization time and resources spent on repetitive tasks
• How connecting quality, finance and analytics can improve outcomes across your organization
• Which AI tools best improve the revenue cycle

• Which EHR goals to have
• How to negotiate a successful EHR contract
• How to choose an EHR that can accommodate new technologies and care delivery models

It’s time to open the door for care built for consumers.

Learning Points

• Increase patient acquisition and reduce patient leakage
• Using patient reacquisition to address delayed and avoided care
• Accelerate top-line revenue generation
• Route and triage patients efficiently

What does this mean for the future of care? Download this whitepaper to learn:

• How COVID-19 has shifted consumer expectations around access to care
• What key trends should be considered when assessing virtual tools for your organization
• What’s needed to develop a truly sustainable approach to hybrid care in 2021

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.

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• Evaluate different patient services programs
• Understand how to get started in-house
• Scale your program with your business

Ready to learn how no-code tools can help your hospital or medical practice work smarter? In this guide, you will learn:

• How no-code workflows can transform your healthcare organization
• How to add the power of no-code to your health tech stack

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:

• AI and machine learning work hand-in-hand with video systems
• Advanced Video Analytics systems function in a hospital room
• Patient privacy can be protected using AVA systems
• Using AVA systems can benefit patient care and your bottom line

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.

• Meeting current and future expectations for care delivery in virtual environments
• Defining success for operational, administrative, and clinical domains
• Leveraging telehealth business intelligence to optimize efficiency and improve the patient experience

This case study covers how the health system:

• Embedded telehealth throughout the enterprise to cover the full spectrum of care across home and hospital settings
• Seamlessly integrated telehealth within its operations and care delivery
• Partnered with Amwell on a series of key integrations involving the patient portal, the EHR, and hospital room TVs

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.

Download our white paper today to understand where you and your competition fall in the following categories:

• Niche disruptors
• Digital enablers
• Game changers
• Transformation accelerators

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.

Key learnings:

• How the pandemic exposed frailties in legacy systems
• The consequential health IT changes required to address these challenges
• How enterprise imaging can drive improved agility and performance for imaging services

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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• How live data improves network performance
• How interventional analytics can prevent readmissions and improve length of stay
• The importance of risk stratification and standardization throughout the care continuum
• The qualities of a successful partnership between acute and post-acute players

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.

In this whitepaper, you’ll learn:

• The critical link between data quality and data standardization
• Why standardizing clinical data can be such a challenge
• The foundational role of terminology in healthcare data

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.

• Why ransomware, phishing and data breaches are key attack vectors in healthcare
• Why compliance with HIPAA is federally mandated to protect patient records
• How Keysight provides solutions to comply with HIPAA and technologies to respond to cybersecurity threats

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.

Download the guide to learn:

• A proven 3-step strategic framework for using automation to improve virtual visit efficiency
• 6 workflows across the patient journey that can be automated to increase telehealth program efficiency and revenue capture
• Best practices for avoiding increased staff busywork and reduced provider efficiency from telehealth visits

This whitepaper shares strategies and best practices from automation technology adopters like Intermountain Healthcare on maximizing ROI across patient, clinical, and RCM workflow automation.

Download the guide to learn:

• An overview of robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in healthcare, and how they can be used to power workflow automation
• How to prioritize which workflows to automate and how to measure the ROI on automation
• How to assess different automation partners and platforms based on your organization’s technical maturity and area of focus for automation
• How to build and scale an agile approach to launching and iterating on automated workflows
• Examples of how leading health systems have automated patient access, population health, and revenue cycle management workflows with Notable

This quick-read report lays it out. It covers:

• The evolution of threat detection and response
• How to separate fact from fictitious vendor assertions in such a crowded market
• The next generation of MDR with a three-pronged approach to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber-attacks

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.

Read this paper to learn how you too can use ADT notifications to:

• Enhance digital interoperability to improve care coordination, and health outcomes
• Streamline staff workflows and solve other transitions of care challenges
• Roll out ADT notifications without over burdening your in-house IT resources

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:

• Institutions using the LEAF System reported reductions of sacrococcygeal HAPIs by up to 85%
• Adherence with institutional turn protocols – critical to prevent HAPIs – rose by up to 95% at institutions using the LEAF System.
• Hospitals using the LEAF System avoided up to $1.4 million in HAPI costs and reported HAPI treatment ROI of up to $3.4 million.

Download the whitepaper to learn:

• The limitations of data and risk scores for actioning SDOH.
• How AI can save millions by helping target beneficial investments for socially vulnerable communities.
• How AI inferences and recommendations can lead to more productive conversations with patients about potential barriers to health.

This whitepaper will explore:

• How mobile apps can improve patient care and provider revenue
• Cost pressures facing providers currently and post-COVID-19
• How patient non-compliance harms revenue
• The prevalence of smartphones and use of technology during the pandemic

In this white paper, you’ll learn how to integrate technology and equipment with the physical environment by:

• Determining the specific needs of your facility and team to gain buy-in
• Reconfiguring your existing space to make technology use easy, safe and efficient
• Implementing ergonomic solutions into the care environment with ongoing evaluation

Key points include:

• How IT is evolving and why organizations need to adapt to a new world of healthcare delivery
• The top five drivers of change in healthcare
• The keys to success for changing times in healthcare

• Reducing wait times with virtual providers in triage.
• Ensuring continuity of care with virtual follow-up for discharged patients.
• Improving clinician satisfaction and reducing hospital admissions with virtual patient navigation.

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.

Download this whitepaper to learn:

• 6 essential strategies for designing and implementing a digital front door that patients love
• Common pitfalls that delay development and reduce adoption of patient engagement solutions
• How Notable uses robotic process automation and AI to power digital intake experiences with over 80% pre-visit completion and 97% patient satisfaction
• How to reduce call volume by automating pre-visit patient registration
• How modernizing patient intake can help optimize revenue cycle management

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:

• Achieve cost savings and increase revenue
• Reduce patient leakage and strengthen patient engagement

• Vaccine appointment reminder check-list

Download Part 1 of the Route to Compliance eBook Series for:

• An overview of the CMS E-notifications CoP and all requirements included
• Survey results revealing hospital CIO familiarity with the CMS rule
• An assessment framework for hospitals and CIOs to find compliance solutions
• E-notification solutions available to guarantee full CoP compliance for hospitals

Overcome the pressure of shrinking margins by increasing workforce efficiency with lessons in this e-book from Proliance Surgeons and Prosthetic & Orthotics Group.

In this e-book, you'll learn:

• Tips to improve workforce efficiency in healthcare
• How one specialty provider slashed staff time spent per denial by up to 30 days
• Strategies that helped an ASC double their processed payments and foster financial growth

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:

• Three ways to leverage data to maximize revenue
• A step-by-step guide to negotiating profitable contracts
• The types of data you need to make negotiations more productive
• How to evaluate and improve claims compliance
• Tips for managing denials and prior authorizations

• How to choose the right kind of automation for your organizational goals
• How to pick the right workflow for automation
• How to expand your perspective of ROI for automation

• Three of the top financial challenges patients and providers face
• A full exploration of the patient financial care maturity model
• Checklists, metrics, and next steps for each of the four-step process

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:

• Access pain points for patients and providers
• Why providers have a more negative view of patient access than patients
• Why providers are optimistic that patient access is about to get better

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:

• Adapting their strategy and operations
• Revisiting pricing strategies and ways to share cost increases
• Leveraging value-based reimbursement
• Tackling administrative inefficiencies and reducing waste
• Identifying technology solutions to automate mundane tasks
• Steering care to lower cost settings
• And much, much more

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.

• Post-discharge coaching
• Behavioral health coaching
• Oncology coaching and the future of cancer
• Cardiometabolic coaching with food delivery services

• Learn how you can massively cut your data footprint and compute costs.
• See where you can save time and benefit from AI and automation tools.
• Understand the ways cloud can help you stay on top of regulations.

• How one CEO keeps staff turnover under 1 percent
• Growth opportunities despite recessionary trends
• Succeeding despite the lack of access to capital
• Overcoming net operating losses
• How partnerships help health systems thrive

• Streamlined accounting functions within one login application
• Employed its EMR to help with analysis and reporting
• Navigated implementation challenges (during the onset of COVID-19, no less)
• Increased staff satisfaction and buy-in

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.

In this whitepaper, you will learn:

• Why a holistic RCM approach is far better than silos.
• How RCM automation improves efficiency and employee satisfaction.
• How process improvements can maximize revenue and improve team performance.
• The importance of predictive analytics and payer performance management.

• Current state of health plans’ payment strategies
• Top pain points and most important priorities
• Key opportunities to streamline payments and barriers to making it happen
• What to look for when considering a payment solution

• Why now is the time for revenue cycle leaders to move beyond digitizing specific workflows and instead shift their efforts to intelligent automation
• New approaches to evolving patient access, with a focus on eliminating denials
• Best practices and KPIs for analyzing your denial management efforts
• How health systems are deploying advanced technologies to drive end-to-end connectivity throughout the entire revenue cycle and reducing the overall cost to collect

• What drives ROI for health plans
• How to achieve guaranteed costs savings and ROI from interventions in year 1
• How optimized interventions improve outcomes and member retention
• How to provide flexible options for your population and specific cohorts

• Leveraging data to decrease denials
• Using automation and technology to improve efficiency
• Upskilling revenue cycle teams and forming strategic partnership

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.

What's Inside:

• Dive deep into top trends in healthcare payments for 2023
• Find new opportunities to foster financial growth
• Discover revenue cycle strategies to achieve your mission

• How changes in the VA influence Veteran benefits today
• Pitfalls that make it challenging to work with the VA
• Effective ways to capture reimbursement for services rendered to Veterans

• Predicting & preventing advanced CKD
• Identifying at-risk patients earlier through predictive intelligence
• Benefits of avoiding emergent dialysis

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.

In this whitepaper, you will learn:

• Why common approaches to revenue cycle improvement fall short
• The role of intelligent automation in strengthening the front end of revenue cycles with higher accuracy and faster payment, without additional headcount
• How a leading health system decreased authorization-related write-offs by 55% and saved nearly 3,000 staff hours

• Defining healthcare finance KPIs
• The importance of tracking healthcare finance KPIs
• The challenges of legacy software in healthcare

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.

• Agapito “Aga” Morgan, commercial healthcare leader, Key Corporate and Commercial Bank
• Dave Morlock, managing director, head of health systems practice, Cain Brothers, a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets
• Kellen Williams, senior manager of business development, Laurel Road, a brand of KeyBank

In this whitepaper you will learn how:

• The healthcare landscape is expected to shift in the coming years
• Value-based care will reshape the industry
• Organizations can be forward-thinking in multiple dimensions

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.

In this ebook you'll learn:

• How health systems can achieve substantial returns with an integrated technology and services approach
• The components of a bold new patient payment model
• How to create a seamless patient experience that drives higher revenue performance

• Why you’re missing billable insurance coverage
• The impact of missing or hidden coverage – which includes writing off bad debt
• 4 ways to find insurance for self-pay patients
• Selecting the right coverage detection technology to meet your organization’s needs
• How coverage detection works

• Developing a smarter revenue cycle and administrative strategy
• Cutting down on outdated manual processes
• Streamlining existing processes with intelligent automation

This whitepaper covers how to best support CFOs today, and how organizations can implement these five steps to improve financial health:

• Why “liquid” data and real-time data are so important
• The unique challenges faced by finance teams at small hospitals
• Effective solutions that enable finance teams to make real-time, data-driven decisions
• Why vendor partnerships are key to data-driven decisions and increased operational efficiencies

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:

• Personalized eating plans that fall within their budget and food accessibility
• Accessible, human-led care — even with limited access to technology
• Cognitive behavioral therapy-based coaching to address underlying causes
• Health literacy skills to sustain future success

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:

• Increase agency collections by 10 to 15 percent
• Decrease denials related to authorizations by 46 percent
• Boost point-of-service payments by 30 percent

• Denials are increasing. 30 percent of respondents say denials are increasing between 10 percent to 15 percent.
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• Automation is considered critical. 52 percent of respondents upgraded or replaced previous claims process technology in the last 12 months.
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• Everyone is looking for improved performance. 78 percent of respondents say their organizations are at least somewhat likely to replace their existing claims management solution if convinced something else can deliver better ROI.
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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.

You'll learn:

• Ways to lead with open + honest communication to provide compassionate financial care
• Strategies to create better connections with your patients
• How to improve patients’ knowledge about payments

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

• How to digitize and personal the patient experience
• How solutions powered by artificial intelligence can enhance front-end patient engagement
• How to build lasting relationships with patients

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:

• Health care's greatest challenges
• Priorities for a sustainable health care system
• What progress has been achieved
• Near-term investment priorities

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:

• An overview of the healthcare fraud landscape
• A snapshot of a real-world fraud case
• An examination of the role technology plays in both fraud protection and fraud susceptibility

• Five technologies driving innovation in healthcare finance
• Four benefits of system integration

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.

Download this short guide to learn more about the benefits actionable intelligence provides. Key learning points:

• How tailoring billing statements can lead to receiving payments an average of 15 days sooner
• How linking analytics with appropriate OmniChannel strategies for each patient increases self-service payments by an average of 6.5 percent
• How the precise use of dynamic patient portals can generate $250,000 to $2.33 million more in additional revenue

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:

• Cost management
• Revenue integrity
• Workforce optimization
• Digital infrastructure
• Growth strategy

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:

• Why patient financing presents a challenge for most DSOs
• Why juggling multiple agreements with finance companies creates administrative burden for staff.
• 为什么员工培训是至关重要的支持是什么tter patient financial experience.

• How efforts to improve price transparency fall short
• The role that social determinants of health play in the payment experience
• The changes needed to advance digital channels in healthcare

Proper reimbursement depends on appropriate documentation and reporting.

飞行员医疗收入周期解决方案交付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:

• How logic-based solutions drive better operational outcomes
• Accelerating revenue cycle optimization
• Perioperative supply conservation post COVID-19
• Artificial intelligence and bot technology in revenue cycle processes

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.

Read the ebook to learn:

• Key ways the patient financial engagement landscape is changing
• How to better address patients’ billing needs and preferences
• Why personalized billing helps health systems achieve better outcomes

From this report, you will gain insight into the following key trends (and more):

• The latest financial data reveals the ongoing challenges. What you can expect with a long-tailed recovery.
• How providers and patients are responding to mounting financial pressures.
• Global supply chain breakdowns are impeding recovery for hospitals and health systems. What this means for your organization and what’s next.

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.

Read this whitepaper to learn:

• Easy-to-implement tips to streamline payment processes and increase efficiency
• How technology can help you automate and standardize time-of-service collections
• Why offering flexible, consumer-friendly payment options helps improve patients’ healthcare experience

Download this whitepaper to learn:

• How to turn the challenges of consumerism into opportunities.
• How to create a flexible, personalized payment experience.
• How to engage patients across multiple channels.

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.

Download this eBook to learn a myriad of insights, including:

• The Future of a Data-Driven Healthcare Finance Team
• Healthcare Accounting: Using Agility to Fight the Status Quo
• What is a Healthcare ERP?

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• How patient understanding of billing and costs are crucial to their overall experience.
• What holds most healthcare providers from moving toward a transparent revenue model.
• Steps providers can take to deliver on transparency without compromising their current practices.

Download our Market Update to get the latest information on Debt Collection Practices (Regulation F) final rules.

Objectives:

• Learn what it is, why it is important and the implications of failure to comply
• Review the approved communications with debtors that further defines harassment, abuse, and unfair practices (Rule one)
• Understand the requirements for and timing of disclosures of bad debt collection (Rule two)

• Annual financial implications relative to hospital size
• Importance of hospital-physician alignment under mandatory bundles
• Three potential models CMS could select

• How to meet price transparency compliance and what stiffer financial penalties are at stake in 2022 under the newly proposed rule
• How automating critical functions in patient access helps maintain the data integrity necessary to generate accurate price quotes, increasing your ability to collect payment prior to service
• Why a consistent patient financial experience is critical to increasing patient satisfaction and trust, and why aligning price estimates and quotes requires one platform
• How combining a machine-readable file, patient-facing estimation tools and payments exceeds compliance measures, enables consumerism and maximizes revenue

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.

This whitepaper contains:

• An overview of the patient affordability crisis by the numbers
• Five ways to transform patient affordability
• How Geisinger used fintech to boost collections by 80 percent

In this ebook, you'll learn:

• The current payments context driving urgency for change
• The leading pain points along the patient financial journey
• A three-step playbook for implementing a versatile payment strategy that enhances the patient experience

Download the guide to learn:

• The basics of intelligent automation, including artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA), and the role they play in a touchless revenue cycle
• How to prioritize use cases for intelligent automation based on business, human, and automation impact
• How to define the ROI for intelligent automation in the revenue cycle
• Why a test and learn approach is necessary to scale quickly and drive impact

• How the various VA community care programs operate
• Why working with the VA is not the same as working with a typical insurer
• How the VA denial and appeal process differs from that of other payers
• Why outsourcing may be the best way to ensure every possible dollar is collected on these claims

• Proven AI fraud prevention technology is being applied to healthcare fraud, waste and abuse
• Advanced AI detects and prevents fraud before the claim is paid
• Higher detection rates and fewer false positives allow you to focus on more complex FWA schemes

• Common barriers hospitals face in paying doctors and how to overcome them
• The benefits of physician payment automation and how various departments, from finance to compliance to doctors themselves, can take advantage of this type of approach
• Actionable steps hospitals can take to evaluate physician payment technology based on their specific needs

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:

• Strategies on patient education, personalization and price transparency
• How training, technology and recognition leads to staff support
• The power of finding a partner for patient financial services

The 2021 Retirement Survey Report provides detailed information and insights on how organizations responded to the impact of COVID-19, including:

• Addressing employee financial stress
• Managing their fiduciary responsibilities and limiting fiduciary liabilities
• Evaluating plan design and more

• Learn how to identify a collaborative value-based approach to construction using data and software to create a more flexible and adaptable healthcare facility
• Discover alternatives to the fee-for-service model of construction
• Learn how verified construction procurement data can help control costs

This practical guide contains scheduling strategies that will empower staff, reduce turnover, boost productivity and cut costs.