Connect Care Bytes Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Starting November 5, an artificial intelligence (AI) digital scribe application is going to be trialed by a small group of emergency physicians at the University of Alberta Hospital, the Royal Alexandra Hospital, and the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre (RDRHC).

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

health care system today: namely, Managing patient violence Inadequate patient handoffs– but in this case, related to patient transport #5 and #9 in the list 10 years later identify care coordination challenges, which continue to mar health care quality in the U.S. With 3 in 5 U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

That report spoke to the importance of connecting the disconnected health care landscape, including primary care, pharmacy, diagnostics, secondary care/hospitals, health technology providers, insurers, and information stewards, among other stakeholders in the fragmented health/care ecosystem.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Health insurance plays a vital role in helping patients access the care they need. By focusing on healthcare payors as an integral part of the patient experience (PX), companies can improve lives. The High Price of a Poor Health Insurance Experience The goal of insurers and affiliated payment companies is keeping people healthy.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Be kind to your local health care providers; support their community initiatives (see previous bullet point), and ask your local hospital(s) what you or your organization can do to help the impending provider shortage (nurses, doctors). rare disease communities, or other gaps in health justice.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

NHS England states that regional teams should be working with local government partners to set priorities for 2025/26, with an emphasis on improving timely access to general practice, urgent and emergency care, and reducing long and costly admissions to hospitals or care homes.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

” Digital health touchpoints are proliferating across the growing health/data ecosystem, from hospital-moving-to-home to virtual health enabled through contactless sensors, recently unveiled by G oogle’s Nest Hub with sleep sensing. states (among them California, Florida and New York).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“The odds are against hospitals collecting patient balances greater than $7,500,” the report analyzing Hospital collection rates for self-pay patient accounts from Crowe concludes. Crowe benchmarked data from 1,600 hospitals and over 100,00 physicians in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.” health system.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

FYI, Press Ganey, a leading health care patient experience organization, has created an impressive library of resources addressing the pandemic, linked here.]. Pre-COVID-19, the consumer had a trust baseline which Press Ganey shows was further shaped by the person’s experience in the health system. Press Ganey asks.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2025

I expect more public-private collaborations to launch to address various gaps; these won’t be panaceas to a larger fraying public health infrastructure, but hopefully useful ventures that benefit people who need access to services, information, and supplies for self-care. ” and so on.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Note that 8 in 10 consumers rate nurses excellent/good compared with 7 in 10 people ranking physicians this way, 6 in 10 for hospitals, 5 in 10 for telemedicine/virtual visits, and just under 5 in 10 for hospital emergency departments. health system among Americans earlier this year in a July study. health system.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The most trusted source of health information continues to be “my” physician, followed by “any” physician, then friends and family, and hospital-health plan-and pharmacy websites. The post The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

” At the HIMSS conference today, Dr. Adrienne Boissy, Chief Experience Office of the Cleveland Clinic, led a day of patient experience sessions that addressed a range of these issues and others. As “patient engagement” emerges as a top priority for U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2019

In each of these scenarios, financial services, hospitality, and petroleum operators have bent their industry cost-curves while engaging consumers in self-service. Why does this make sense? The supply side @retail for health and consumer-facing tech is maturing and penetrating our homes, held in hands, stored in pockets, and worn on wrists.

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EvidenceCare

JANUARY 29, 2024

Here are five areas of focus that can be beneficial for any hospital leader looking to improve clinical operations within a health system. Safety and quality continue to be at the top of their agenda to improve patient outcomes and the overall patient experience. Some quotes have been slightly edited for brevity.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Philips, a longtime major exhibitor at CES, created an entirely new online experience for the CES attendees – a sort of virtual gallery of different exhibits that are accessed from a single point in a “room” with various entry points. George tells us about being discharged home after dealing with heart failure in the hospital.

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Discharges Hospital Follow-Up Vital Signs 144

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Hospitals, clinicians, long term care and other legacy health care system players must collaborate with the folks on the right side of the chart to provide continuity of care to people at home, if we are to realize the vision of connected health where people live.

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Collaboration Diagnostics Long Term Care Hospice 102

Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The KPMG vision is hopeful and calls for collaboration across current health care players and newer entrants to the industry with distinctly different core missions, business models, and cultures.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What if… you were given the opportunity to build a health system from scratch in this new era of platforms, cloud computing, AI and machine learning, curious-digital-empowered consumers, and collaborators in retail and community settings operating close to peoples’ homes and workplaces?

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

Care settings (think: outside or away from the hospital bed or doctor’s office). How waiting times in hospital emergency departments can be shortened to lower the risks of adverse events and quality problems that can be averted by seeing patients sooner. Medical Deserts. Health equity, and.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

Launched in 2013 , the team now has about 150 health care consultants, spanning Chief Nursing Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, ex-department heads of hospitals — the range of professionals who can, as Sean said, “dig in and redesign care pathways that optimize performance through design.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Achieving these calls-to-action will require collaboration and collective action in health care organizations’ communities.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2025

One of the limiting factors or barriers to achieving continuity of care from hospital-to-home in a streamlined, omnichannel way has been the lack of interoperability of health data and devices. A physician, Pak spoke about Samsung Health’s growing Home AI ecosystem for supporting consumers in their health goals.

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Doximity

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

First, we now offer a TV news anchor-like banner or name badge displaying the clinician’s name, credentials, specialties, and hospital logo within the video visit interface. In a recent post-visit survey 1 , patients rated clinicians with virtual name badges 0.48 stars higher on average than those without (on a 5-star scale).

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 13, 2024

With over 14 years of experience leading care teams for patients with complex medical conditions, she is passionate nursing leader who fosters dynamic and supportive work environments that encourage continuous learning and professional growth. Accessibility promotes open communication and collaboration.

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Unit Organization and Environment Collaboration Patient Care Teamwork 105

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

We weren’t surprised to note that younger patients took advantage of retail clinics and other on-demand channels for health care, older people, too, have been willing to use sites other than doctor’s offices and hospital clinics to receive health care services. health care — and desirable.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Cleveland Clinic is a prime example of a hospital system imagining and re-shaping what a hospital will be in the future. Finally, consumer-patient pressures are playing a positive role in telehealth adoption.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 26, 2024

As a nurse manager, I am responsible for the unit’s overall operational needs, which include, but are not limited to, interviewing, hiring, performance management, patient safety/patient care initiatives, overall team engagement, patient experience initiatives, process improvement projects, and all other business-related needs.

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The Healthcare Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

3) high levels of collegiality and mutual trust At its base, quality patient care requires collaboration, and that collaboration cannot take place without high levels of trust-both in clinical judgment and behavior. Those standards evolve and improve as clinical medicine advances.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

RK: Collaboration has been forever transformed in a post-COVID world. As a patient moves through the continuum of care, we understand and value that our patients’ experiences are private. JSK: You moved into the Amedisys organization in 2018 as Chief Information Security Officer.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Patients’ experiences with the health care industry fall short of their interactions with other industries — namely online retail, online banking and online travel, a new survey from Cedar, a payments company, learned. These study respondents had also visited a doctor or hospital and paid a medical bill in the past year.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2024

.” This post summarizes some key findings on the consumer demand side for staying home, empowered and enabled by various technologies that can support independent aging, living, and medical care as more acute services shift from hospital-to-home.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2019

Media may report that the annual change in drug pricing has been more modest in the past year; however, the patient-facing cost can be onerous based on people enrolled in high-deductible health plans, co-payments and co-insurance. Once we analyzed the results, we titled the poll, “The Empowered Patient and the Endangered Wallet.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2019

Developing Alexa-skills that are HIPAA-compliant to bolster users’ personal health information privacy collaborating with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, Express Scripts, Livongo Health, and Providence St. Joseph Health.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2019

.” As you shop for Amazon Prime deals today and tomorrow (15th and 16th July), you might ponder how your experience could (or will) translate into your own health care life-flows soon or in the future.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The story started with the scenario that, “Search giant is amassing health records from Ascension facilities in 21 states; patients not yet informed.” ” Here’s Ascension’s press release on the collaboration , described in the title as “healthcare transformation.” health care.

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