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In less than a year, Atlas Healthcare Partners — one of the nation’s fastest growing ASC management companies — has been able to significantly free up capacity for existing revenue cycle staff. This has led to measurable financial and productivity gains, and improved satisfaction for patients and staff.
This case study delves into how the company leveraged workforce automation and analytics solutions to solve long standing inefficiencies facing many revenue cycle teams.
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In this research-based guide, you'll learn the critical challenges and strategies for developing a modern data platform that can effectively integrate, manage and utilize real-time data for better healthcare outcomes.
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This white paper explores current trends and forecasts future developments in healthcare data analytics and interoperability aims for EHRs. Embracing these trends will be key for healthcare organizations striving to stay at the forefront of innovation, quality care and compliance.
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This guide can help hospital leaders and executives supplement or accelerate their work on professional well-being at the operational level.
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TeamHealth worked around these challenges by implementing a hospital medicine productivity program that raised productivity by 7.7% while increasing early discharges and lowering readmission rates. This case study outlines their strategy.
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For the first time since the start of the pandemic, employee engagement is on the upswing, according to Press Ganey's analysis of data from 2.2 million U.S. healthcare workers. However, retention remains a key challenge for healthcare organizations, especially among nursing roles.
This white paper offers a state of the union on the healthcare workforce in 2024, highlighting key trends and strategies organizations can use to boost employee retention and experience.
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Integrating and scaling much-needed behavioral health services is a challenge, especially when rural communities or high-acuity patients are involved. This white paper details potential roadblocks and offers a path forward for hospitals to create a financially sustainable program.
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To provide the best possible care and optimize health outcomes for patients served, understand how to enable your staff with continuous learning opportunities and strengthen your culture of learning.
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This guide explores the features and advantages of internal agencies and internal float pools and presents case studies demonstrating how clients have executed and achieved favorable outcomes with these solutions.
Health systems that implement internal agencies or internal float pools achieve outcomes including:
Bon Secours Mercy Health, a 48-hospital system based in Cincinnati, solved the problem of manual data entry through a new integration with their EHR. This whitepaper outlines how the system improved efficiency, regulatory compliance, and patient and provider satisfaction through the new program.
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The new 2024 Survey of Hospital Nurse Leaders delves into the workforce management tools and technologies CNOs and other nurse leaders are implementing and where they're seeing the most success in addressing key issues including shortages and scheduling problems.
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Three top challenges nurse leaders are facing
How burnout is affecting nurse leaders
The three most useful workforce management and support tools
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Top preferences for achieving a healthy workforce and higher retention rates
Nurses' desires related to scheduling and travel/rotational programs
Key recommendations for supporting flexibility
In this industry report, you'll learn more about where AI technology can be applied in executive recruiting, its potential benefits to talent management and its limitations.
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With labor expenses accounting for 50% of hospital costs, tackling these workforce issues is essential to getting labor costs under control. To navigate this complex landscape, healthcare decision-makers must have a future-ready workforce strategy.
In this white paper, you will learn how a flexible workforce model can help healthcare facilities cut down on labor costs and achieve financial sustainability.
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This white paper details how comprehensive services offered by medical equipment distributors can help health systems contain costs and improve efficiency.
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Building a flexible workforce to fill shifts at a lower cost than contingent labor
The importance of a multigenerational staffing model
Reducing agency staffing from 25% to 8% of total clinical workforce
Real-world clinical and financial results Mercy has achieved
As the demand for nurses is growing steadily, exacerbated by an estimated 640,000 nurse retirements between 2020 and 2030. Nurses are also facing increasingly difficult working environments that are taking a toll on their emotional health, spurring some to leave the profession entirely. Health systems adapting to these headwinds with technology are emerging as leaders in nurse retention, growing access to care, with a focus on the bottom line.
We compiled 10 must-read articles featuring insights from industry leaders that demonstrate the current state of the healthcare supply chain and the types of strategies hospitals and health systems are embracing to strengthen their organizations.
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Dive into this whitepaper and learn more about the three purchased services key trends for 2024:
This doesn't just make for a dangerous work environment for healthcare workers — it also instills fear in patients and worsens public perception of the healthcare industry at a time when public trust is already falling. In a 2022 survey, 40% of respondents said they didn't feel safe entering a hospital or medical facility. To combat this and keep employees safe, healthcare leaders need a strong game plan.
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Combining data analytics, workforce strategy, and recruitment into a technology-forward, total talent solution, AMN Healthcare prescriptively identified Temple Health’s staffing needs and created a foundation of data guidance and utilization to reallocate and balance their workforce.
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Read the case study to learn how using EngageCare self-service technology to transition administrative and financial tasks to patients helped Wayne improve patient safety, reduce no-shows and increase staff efficiency.
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At the Becker's Supply Chain Leadership Virtual Forum, six healthcare supply chain experts discussed their systems' supply chain transformation efforts and shared how supply chains can become a strategic asset when bolstered by the power of data, standardization and process efficiency. This report offers seven takeaways from the discussion.
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Learn how eight organizations across the country have used technology and collaboration to achieve the following:
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Despite AI's meteoric rise in popularity across industries, healthcare has lagged behind on adoption, with 60% of leaders reporting their company is not moving quickly enough. At the same time, 86% of leaders believe the ability to effectively leverage tech, data and AI will define success over the next five years, meaning organizations need to bridge the gap quickly.
With healthcare's privacy, regulatory and security concerns adding a layer of complexity to AI implementation, the right third-party AI partner can offer a path forward — but healthcare organizations need to know what to look for. This whitepaper uses findings from a survey of healthcare leaders to examine AI adoption, barriers and factors for a successful AI partnership.
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By now, healthcare leaders are familiar with AI's potential to alleviate documentation burden, lighten clinicians' cognitive load and streamline operations overall, but only 6% of organizations currently have a generative AI strategy in place.
Many leaders have been overwhelmed by how quickly the technology has burst into the public consciousness and the hype surrounding it. Hospital leaders need clarity on generative AI’s risks and use cases if they’re to create a successful strategy, and apply the technology safely and effectively.
In this guide, we look beyond the hype to explore five key areas every healthcare organization should consider when developing an AI strategy and assessing potential vendors’ solutions.
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Transforming the Cerner patient intake and registration process is not just an option, it’s a necessity.
63% of patients say their provider’s digital tools have not met their expectations and 41% of patients have switched providers due to a poor digital experience.
This guide provides a detailed look at the strategies other organizations use to deliver exceptional digital experiences with Cerner.
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But there are significant challenges to tackle in order to get there, especially surrounding data ingestion, model training and validation. This white paper shares how healthcare organizations are deriving useful insights from complex imaging data.
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With over 100,000 procedure codes from three different coding systems currently in use, having consistent and complete mappings is critically important. This white paper details the best way to get the most out of your coding data.
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This guide provides six actionable strategies that enhance patient access, communication and readiness based on insights from more than 700 million data points collected across 650 healthcare organizations like Fairview Health Services (Minneapolis) and UW Medicine (Seattle). It also covers improvement opportunities for critical areas such as self-scheduling, rescheduling, response rates, care follow-up and referral outreach.
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Becker's spoke with leaders from Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health and Ottawa (Ontario) Hospital about how they're using a one-stop-shop data infrastructure to quickly get answers and action items for critical operational, research and innovation-related questions. This whitepaper offers a summary of the discussion.
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But how prepared is your organization to harness its full potential?
Discover the roadmap to not just surviving but thriving in the age of AI.
This research-based guide demonstrates how embracing hybrid care and asynchronous telehealth can help to solve healthcare's greatest challenges — like provider burnout, delayed/avoided care, health equity and more — and outlines important use cases.
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In this white paper, you'll learn four key components — which emerged from a roundtable discussion with hospital and health system CEOs and CFOs — to drive sustainable improvements with automation and ensure return on investment.
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In this white paper, you'll learn how hospitals and health systems are leveraging a single technology platform to enhance patients' care experiences across all settings, as well as save costs, reduce burden and drive innovation.
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Healthcare organizations are now ramping up efforts to consolidate scheduling and communication functions by reducing their vendor footprint. The result? Lower IT burden, lower costs and better clinical outcomes.
See why hospitals are turning to a single platform to make scheduling, communication, and patient care workflows easier. This paper covers:
Preparation efforts paid off for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. The system saw an 187% increase in telemedicine activity after a severe weather event impacted local patients and providers. Through proactive communications, UAMS shifted all in-person patient visits to virtual, resulting in zero missed appointments during the period of severe weather.
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Demands on IT service desks in healthcare have grown immensely over the last five years. They're supporting higher volumes of applications, a constant stream of new technologies and myriad new devices that require IT maintenance. At the same time, the resources, headcount and budget provided to IT are constricting.
To better understand the challenges facing IT leaders, as well as the most promising solutions for addressing them, Becker’s Healthcare took a look at how the role of automation in optimizing IT operations and how, with the right platform, the benefits of IT service management (ITSM) modernization can span the enterprise.
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Health systems such as CommonSpirit and Novant Health are now tapping into predictive & prescriptive machine learning analytics to address these challenges. Using a new data-driven and strategic approach, these organizations are able to enhance block utilization, streamline scheduling processes, optimize resources like staff and robots, and accommodate varying surgical volumes to improve overall perioperative performance.
Download this case study booklet to learn how 100 health systems from across the country are using this strategy to optimize OR performance and achieve the following results:
It also demonstrates how adaptable data systems can support VBC by facilitating the delivery of higher-quality care, while mitigating the burden of soaring healthcare costs.
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Health systems are grappling with increasing levels of uncompensated care as healthcare costs rise and insurance coverage remains inadequate for a significant portion of the population.
This whitepaper outlines key opportunities for organizations to maximize revenue recovery efforts while improving cash flow and operations.
Learn to adapt to rising costs with insights on:
Choosing the wrong tool could add work for your team and cost you more, or it could become “shelfware”—never being properly implemented at all.
Use this guide to help you make more informed and careful decisions when picking a solution so you don't fall for the hype.
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All automation is not created equal.
Some solutions are flawed. Some simply require extra expertise. But there is good news: The fixes exist. This eBook will give you tips on how to avoid four common mistakes technologies make while also exploring:
In this white paper, you'll see actionable steps and expert insights on the support needed to effectively navigate these challenges.
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But there are different reasons for pursuing RCM partnerships and very different approaches to partnership. Which approach and partners are best for your organization?
Here are insights from new research conducted with the Health Management Academy:
The key takeaway: RCM partnerships are necessary but they're not all alike. Understand the differences to make the best RCM decision for your health system.
Consumers, on the one hand, need increased support to understand their bills and figure out how to pay them. On the other hand, patients with more skin in the game are becoming more demanding about the quality of their customer experience.
These changes necessitate a new patient payment model that focuses on delivering convenience and clear communication to patients, driving both quicker payments and increased patient satisfaction.
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Download the e-book to learn more about how health leaders can ready their organization for growth with forward-thinking strategies that include:
We asked physician management and healthcare organization leaders to share their strategies for overcoming the considerable challenges of this altered landscape. They offer 10 strategies for using data and analytics to better manage capacity, coordinate care and optimize revenues, including:
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Before the arrival of COVID-19, specific environmental trends were challenging the healthcare industry, such as acquisitions of smaller health systems by larger health systems, clinician shortages and burnout. These trends had already created an urgent demand for clinical communication platforms (CCP) that would work securely across growing networks of diverse care provider organizations. The arrival of COVID-19 has applied untold new pressures to already strained systems.
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Learn how, with TRIMEDX and a comprehensive clinical asset management strategy, Ascension identified and acted upon proactive opportunities that leveraged its medical equipment and amplified the positive impact the organization has on patients, staff, and communities.
Faced with these challenges, healthcare organizations must take a proactive approach leveraging historical data to develop predictive analytics to manage nurse onboarding and retention. This whitepaper shares how nurse leaders can apply a quality improvement methodology to streamline the onboarding process while addressing work-life balance concerns to successfully retain new nurses beyond their first few years of practice.
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With safety and efficiency in mind, two Mayo Clinic physicians have reimagined the surgical gown to reduce instrument drops and improve instrument accessibility. One of the physicians recently caught up with Becker's to share how a simple change can help minimize contamination risks, procedural delays and enhance overall convenience and efficiency.
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Under Mr. Desai's leadership, the Louisville, Ky.-based system is centralizing, automating and optimizing pharmacy operational, clinical and regulatory processes across nine hospitals and 450+ ambulatory care sites. This whitepaper details Baptist Health's success story so far, offering insights into tackling top challenges pharmacies are facing today — rising costs, drug and labor shortages, pricing/reimbursement complexities, and increasingly stringent regulations.
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The Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at Hackensack University Medical Center became the first hospital in New Jersey to offer focused ultrasound treatment for tremor-dominant Parkinson's disease and essential tremor in June 2021. The team knew that to build a successful program, they would need to develop a marketing campaign that targeted patients as well as physicians.
Download the white paper to learn how they built brand awareness, surpassed their goal for cases in the first year and maximized the campaign's reach to potential patients.
However, organizations commonly struggle to find the right balance in these two areas. Organizations must maintain high operational maturity and a strong patient experience to strengthen patient loyalty and improve efficiency, build a positive reputation, and gain an edge over their competitors.
Download this e-book and see where your organization falls on the patient access maturity matrix.
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Patients are frustrated by poor communication, hard-to-solve billing disputes and — when they are able to get an appointment — feeling rushed. As a result, more providers are innovating and exploring possibilities in elevated care models, including personalized primary care via concierge medicine or membership-based healthcare.
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Hospitals and health systems are increasingly embracing communication technology to enhance the patient experience, address labor shortages and foster better collaboration among clinicians. However, the implementation of such technology requires careful consideration to avoid compromising patient experience.
This white paper outlines strategic approaches for healthcare organizations to thoughtfully implement communication technology to help — not hurt — the patient experience.
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Review the ongoing challenges health systems face providing mental health care in the ED today.
Examine why post-discharge care is so vital for higher severity patients and how technology-enabled telehealth solutions can help ease the burden.
Explore how health systems can partner with technology-enabled telepsychiatry solutions to improve access, outcomes, and ED throughput
Discuss the latest clinical outcomes from Brightside Health’s technology-enabled telehealth solution.
This whitepaper details how LEAF reminders sent wirelessly from the wearable sensor to a display at the nurses’ station, have been shown to exceed turn protocols from the national average of 48% to a turn adherence rate of 98%. If each HAPI represents an average financial burden of $21,767, reducing the incidence of avoidable cases could save the average hospital hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars each year.
In this paper, you'll access insights from a discussion with pharmacy leadership at IU Health and learn how they implemented a centralized service center (CSC) to improve hospital operations, clinical workflows, and patient and employee satisfaction.
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In this insightful guide, Valerie Bandy, PharmD, MBA, BS, RPh, discusses CPSCs and dispels common misconceptions. Dr. Bandy highlights the broader benefits beyond cost reduction, including inventory optimization, staff redeployment and enhanced patient care.
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In this must-read e-book, you'll find a collection of seven articles that paint a picture of today's current DSO and dental landscape, common challenges associated with growth, and how dental leaders are using technology for streamlined patient engagement and stronger finances.
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Regardless of how you built the processes in your DSO, MSO, or Group, DentalRobot provides a custom-fit automation solution that matches your current context and vision for operations and growth. We understand each specialty and its journey. We impact your organization's outcomes by rapidly automating every process from insurance verification or EOB posting to Accelerated Patient Scheduling or Customized Treatment Plan Follow-Ups.