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However, shipping is an overlooked opportunity for significant savings. This brief report covers how Mountain View Hospital lowered shipping costs while supporting quality care through a collaboration with OptiFreight® Logistics.
Readers will learn about key insights that led to success, including:
In this whitepaper, you'll learn current challenges, creative approaches and best practices pharmacy leaders are using at hospitals and health systems across the country to help manage pharmacy costs.
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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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Becker's Healthcare recently hosted a panel-style webinar with three healthcare leaders who shared how organizations can break through these barriers and achieve effective and efficient care management programs. They examined the current state of care management, proposed improvements and discussed how a comprehensive data approach can enable contextual awareness.
Major themes examined during the conversation include:
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 report includes key insights on consumer feedback trends, hospital rankings and strategies to boost reputational performance from leading systems.
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This white paper includes the insights and tools needed to tackle the complexities of talent acquisition in the healthcare industry and provides talent strategies to address clinical labor shortages in the healthcare recruitment landscape. Learn how to implement scalable and flexible recruitment strategies, create compelling recruitment campaigns, foster candidate engagement, and build a talent pipeline that drives organizational growth.
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In this white paper, you'll learn how a $6 billion health system revolutionized its workforce management through an innovative, on-demand nursing tool. The health system achieved $85 million in savings, streamlined onboarding processes and optimized staffing levels across its 23 hospitals. By successfully onboarding 1,500 healthcare professionals, the health system demonstrated its current growth and commitment to meeting healthcare demands.
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Flexibility has become an increasingly important part of a health system's workforce strategy. Clinicians are consistently pointing to scheduling flexibility as a key factor that reduces work-related stress and burnout.
Health systems that have aced their flexibility strategies have tapped into on-demand staffing solutions, like Medely, to address administrative burdens, improve patient care and drive savings. Download this brief eBook to learn more about how systems are delivering the flexibility clinicians expect, while saving on excessive overtime costs and improving nurse satisfaction.
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Left unchecked, healthcare's workplace violence crisis will have profound effects on staff engagement, patient satisfaction and quality outcomes. With workers increasingly facing violent and aggressive events on the job, safety has emerged as a central focus for hospital and health system leaders.
Increasingly, nurses and other workers are prioritizing safety in their choice of employment. Now, hospitals are strengthening their approach to foster and elevate a culture of safety and transparency to protect patients and staff, and ensure teams can work without fears about a lack of security.
Becker's and Commure recently caught up with hospital executives to learn more about how their organizations are bolstering security and fostering a culture of safety.
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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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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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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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In this whitepaper, learn how healthcare organizations across the country are deploying AI-powered technology and opportunities to improve clinical, operational and financial performance.
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Today, we’ve moved well beyond hype to the hope that advanced AI will be able to reshape the healthcare industry.
At Notable, we’ve spent the past eight months deploying conversational AI at patient care organizations throughout the United States, and we’ve learned valuable lessons along the way.
In this whitepaper, you’ll learn:
This article examines how care-at-home solutions alleviate strain by facilitating early discharges, transitional care, chronic disease management and resource optimization. Provider insights and outcomes along with market data demonstrate these programs improve capacity while enhancing patient care delivery.
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Becker's Hospital Review recently convened hospital and health system leaders from across the country to discuss current sentiments on AI adoption. They discussed factors driving adoption, barriers and challenges, and expectations for sustainably advancing the technology. This whitepaper offers a summary of the discussion.
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However, new technology can empower clinicians to make the most of every moment by delivering real-time, data-driven insights to the bedside. Having a digital view into each patient's clinical story as it's happening can support swift, effective decision making in the moments that matter most.
Read this white paper to learn more about the potential of these technologies to reshape critical care.
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Effective clinical decision-making and treatment plans often hinge on data from diagnostic laboratories. But for many healthcare organizations, the patient data clinicians need is fragmented and siloed, making it difficult to integrate or match to the right patient — which can have severe consequences.
This whitepaper highlights Sonora Quest Laboratories' digital transformation journey to drive interoperability through identity data management. Sonora Quest Laboratories is a large, integrated diagnostic lab and joint venture between Phoenix-based Banner Health and Quest Diagnostics.
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The mindset toward health IT is changing for many healthcare leaders. Organizations benefit by steering away from the “necessary expense” perspective to consider IT as a strategic asset. When this mindset is embraced, health IT is a powerful enabler for truly scaling and achieving operational efficiency across the enterprise.
This brief report discusses how leveraging health IT through comprehensive managed services can achieve sustainable growth.
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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.
See how this approach enables:
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This report examined the perspectives of more than 1,200 healthcare employees, patients and guardians on the state of patient access in 2024, including:
Through an analysis of the digital payment platforms' role and the hidden costs of their independent use, the paper highlights the complementary nature of patient financing solutions on both financial outcomes for health systems and patient experiences.
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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:
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.
In this white paper, you will learn about:
Download this whitepaper where William Rifkin, MD, Associate Vice President and Managing Editor at MCG Health, breaks down the general framework around observation care, which aims to help users employ such care correctly to ensure patient safety and reduce friction with payers.
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Seeking a more efficient and effective tool than their wholesaler analytics platform, Sentara opted to implement a new drug spend optimization platform. The decision helped detect overcharges, simplify the credit and rebill process and identify lower-cost alternatives. Within five months, Sentara eliminated more than $1 million in annual drug spend.
This brief report delves into how the system achieved such significant savings.
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The system's marketing team has collaborated with its Office of Health Informatics and Analytics for several years, using data and technology to personalize patients' lifelong health journeys. This white paper delves deeper into UCLA Health's marketing strategy and successful initiatives, including:
This Forrester trends report leverages analysts' insights to forecast how digital experiences — ranging from chats to the metaverse — will affect the healthcare industry across three key dimensions: revenue, cost savings and patient experiences.
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This meta-analysis tracks results across eight studies covering more than 34,711 patients, 19,136 of whom were monitored using the LEAF◊ Patient Monitoring System.
See the huge impact the system made on protocol adherence and incidence of pressure injuries.
The LEAF System combines wearable patient sensors with a user interface, offering:
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.
In these five must-reads, you'll learn about:
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Becker's Dental + DSO Review recently spoke with Sadiye Akturk, global solutions ambassador at Straumann Group DSO Global, to explore how cloud-based dental practice management technology can address the pressing challenges facing these organizations.
Learn how a cloud practice management system can:
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.