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

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

OCTOBER 15, 2024

I’ve been tracking Samsung’s evolving approach to the Internet of Things at home, for many years collaborating across the consumers’ expanding connected ecosystem for appliances, consumer goods, and autos.

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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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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

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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Vital Signs Hospital Discharges Collaboration 71

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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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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Medical Advantage

JUNE 14, 2024

Enter value-based care (VBC) — a global initiative to move away from the fee-for-service model with a goal to reduce healthcare costs by making time spent with each patient more productive and results-oriented. Patient-centered care models are holistic in nature, bringing about greater efficiency through data-driven decision making.

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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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Northwest Suburban College

JUNE 7, 2024

Enhancing Clinical Skills and Knowledge A prime advantage of our medical assistant externship experience is the opportunity to refine and expand upon the clinical skills and knowledge learned in the classroom. Ready to begin your journey to become a medical assistant ?

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Arkenea

JUNE 28, 2024

As it will do in other areas, I am seeing AI tools help Healthcare Marketing teams increase their productivity by 2-3x allowing them to catch up on an ever growing backlog of maintenance work and make more time to create better customer/patient experiences to help better inform their patients.

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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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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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Practice Builders

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This minimizes health services costs by cutting down on emergency visits and hospitalizations. Tips for Promoting a Proactive Health Initiative For a preventive health model to be successful, patients should be willing to take charge of their health. Providers also play a key role in managing patients’ health.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The two editors of this issue, Timothy Nicholas and Grayson Holt, assert that, “Peacemaking demands equitable, patient-centered clinical practices that optimize patient autonomy and dignity, all the while ensuring that patients feel heard, respected, and secure.”

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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

APRIL 18, 2023

To further benefit institutions’ fiscal health, care will move closer to patients — at home, in the community to lower-cost settings, and via hybrid channels of telehealth and virtual care outside of the hospital.

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Guideway Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It collaborates with hospitals and providers, extending support to enhance care coordination and management. The benefits include reaching more patients, removing non-clinical tasks from nursing workloads, performing follow-ups, scheduling appointments, ensuring compliance and reducing unnecessary service utilization.

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Relias

MARCH 4, 2024

Because of these ongoing trends, healthcare organizations and the nursing community must work collaboratively to find ways to examine the link between the nursing shortage and patient safety. Patient safety is a fundamental goal of all health care. In some states, four patients per nurse is the maximum for emergency care.

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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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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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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

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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Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Coordination of care is the process of organizing and integrating health care services for patients across care settings and providers. In emergency care settings, care coordination can involve immediate care, hospital admission, discharge planning, follow-up care, and post-acute care. What is care coordination?

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Relias

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Unfortunately, this leaves many new nurses without the hands-on training and clinical skills necessary for success — contributing to burnout and high turnover rates that can cost a hospital between $55,000 to $85,000 per nurse. Nurse residency programs benefit both nurses and hospitals.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Continuity of Care Continuity of care is where the patient shifts from the primary healthcare provider to a specialist for a variety of reasons. It could be transition from a hospital to a rehabilitation center, or from a GP to a cardiologist. Patients no longer have to worry about ‘what’s next?’

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Check out this 1940s ad from Blue Cross (“Plan for Hospital Care”) and Blue Shield (“Plan for Doctor Care”). Back in that day, “1 family in 3 got a hospital bill” and “A doctor bill came with each hospital bill…most likely for surgery.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

We can’t expect the health care system — hospitals, physicians and nurses, pharmacists and life science companies — to solve this problem for patients and caregivers. The bottom line: those who are more connected to their community report 16% greater well-being and are more likely to feel a sense of purpose.

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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

MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer gauged U.S. public health, as well.

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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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CollaborateMD

MAY 15, 2023

We had such a great time, and every day was filled with knowledge, networking, and collaboration. AI can help reduce paperwork and save time, freeing healthcare professionals to focus on patient care. That’s why HIMSS23 highlighted the importance ensuring patient data and implementing robust security.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

A decade+ later, we see the maturing of the patient-as-consumer, taking on more self-care beyond fitness and wellness blurring into medical and acute care as hospitals re-locate services and monitoring to people at home and people becoming more activated in tracking chronic conditions, from head-to-toe.

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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

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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Collaboration Hospital Medication Patient Care 123

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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