Economic headwinds, burnout from the pandemic and other factors such as documentation burden have led to decreased job satisfaction and staff shortages at many health systems. The ongoing challenges in today’s workforce landscape are leading some organizations to consider clinical automation.
Clinical automation comes in many forms and can improve clinical workflow efficiencies and patient care. The more organizations automate...
Health systems across the U.S. are implementing comprehensive plans to reduce carbon emissions, curb hospital waste and improve energy efficiency across their operations through multiyear projects impacting everything from the operating room to the cafeteria.
Some organizations, including the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, have signed a nonbinding pledge backed by the White House to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions...
Hospitals need to monitor patients in their rooms to keep them safe — watching for everything from unusual restlessness to hidden stashes of forbidden snacks and beverages.
But labor shortages and financial constraints have made in-person monitoring increasingly difficult. In response, a number of healthcare organizations have adopted virtual sitting, which deploys remote technologies to safeguard their patients and connect...
As digital transformation initiatives accelerate, healthcare organizations must bring their applications up to date. The limitations of some legacy applications may hold back transformation efforts and hamper improvements to efficiency, productivity and security.
“This slows the pace of innovation because organizations can’t meet the demands of their customers,” says Greg Peters, chief architect for strategic application modernization assessment with CDW....
Health systems are turning to 5G networks, Internet of Things (IoT) devices and artificial intelligence (AI) as they leverage smart technology to streamline hospital operations and improve patient care.
However, tying these technologies together through interoperability between devices and disparate sources of data remains a central challenge for providers as the smart hospital continues to evolve.
“We’re finding ways to weave...
For the past three years, patients across the country have become familiar with seeing their doctor on a digital screen from the comfort of their own homes. Clinicians, too, have grown to depend on virtual visits as a way to provide consistent, high-quality care and expand access to care.
Telehealth is not a new mode of care delivery, but until...
As an industry, healthcare differs from most in that providers have a direct impact on a patient’s health. Healthcare organizations take on this responsibility as they strive to improve patient outcomes. However, patient care is not delivered in a vacuum. Healthcare is still a business, and a health system’s leadership must consider business outcomes as well. Luckily, working toward...
At Cisco Live, Liz Centoni, chief strategy officer and general manager of applications at Cisco, proclaimed hybrid cloud and multicloud the de facto approach for enterprises operating today. That includes healthcare organizations, which are increasingly turning to the cloud to support data initiatives. In fact, 73 percent of healthcare organizations surveyed for Forrester’s “State of Cloud in Healthcare, 2023”...
Data analytics has the power to transform clinical workflows and approaches to patient care. In post-acute care, data analytics can be used to prevent hospitalization or infection, determine which patients need additional care and enable clinical teams to establish or pivot care plans quickly.
However, most post-acute care organizations are early in their data analytics journeys. The specialty typically has...
