Travel Nursing Won’t Solve the Staffing Shortage, But Reimagining Staffing Models Might
Shift flexibility is critical to nurse satisfaction.
Zocdoc, Elation Health Partner to Increase Access to PCPs
Zocdoc recently struck a partnership with Elation Health to increase patients' access to care. Now, any provider who uses Elation’s primary care-specific EHR can integrate their calendar into Zocdoc’s platform — meaning that the millions of patients who search for care via Zocdoc each month will have access to these providers’ real-time appointment availability.
Using Informed Awareness to Transform Care Coordination and Improve the Clinical and Patient Experience
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Report: Provider, payer websites are go-to online resources for patients making care decisions
Healthcare consumers are increasingly turning to the internet to research their care options, and provider and payer websites are among their top choices for information, according to a new survey of 1,000 U.S. adults. Over half of the respondents said they would use a provider or payer website to search for a new doctor.
INVEST DH Pitch Perfect winner spotlight: EHR-integrated Navimize wants to cut down a key patient pain point
The startup, which won a Pitch Perfect contest at MedCity INVEST Digital Health, offers a solution that integrates with EHRs to predict wait times in doctors' offices and texts patients in real time to let them know what to expect. This virtual waiting room can help increase efficiency and improve patient experience.
Telehealth aside, providers look to invest IT dollars in cloud services, data analytics
Though telehealth will continue to account for a large portion of healthcare IT budgets in 2021, there are other technology-based services driving provider interest. These range from cloud deployment to vaccine scheduling solutions as providers navigate the new landscape created by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Navimize helps physicians overcome scheduling woes with virtual waiting rooms
A physician started a business to eliminate long appointment wait times. But when the pandemic hit, she found a new use for it in helping keep patients out of busy waiting rooms.
When Investment Rhymes with Canada
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
Behind the scenes of Beaumont’s Covid-19 vaccination scheduling breach
Beaumont Health's CIO Hans Keil spoke with MedCity News about the incident where an unknown user publicly shared a link to access its Covid-19 vaccination scheduling services, the safeguards the health system has put into place since and what his team's IT priorities are for the year ahead.
Beaumont shuts down Covid-19 vaccination scheduling for nearly 24 hours after breach
An unknown user publicly shared a link to access Beaumont's Epic-enabled vaccination scheduling services, which resulted in 2,700 people making unauthorized appointments for a Covid-19 vaccine. The Michigan-based health system had to shut down its vaccination scheduling services and cancel the appointments.
A look at operational and clinical applications of AI in healthcare
The best deployments of AI are as augmented intelligence that enables doctors and nurses to perform their best by providing them with timely, data-driven recommendations that they can accept, reject or modify based on their personal expertise and their judgment of the situation context at that moment in time.
PerfectServe acquires physician shift scheduling company and patient engagement startup
PerfectServe, which provides clinical communication and collaboration solutions, has scooped up two companies: Lightning Bolt Solutions and CareWire.
The Impact Brands: Empowering Wellness Through Natural and Holistic Solutions
In an era of escalating healthcare costs and a growing preference for natural, holistic approaches to health, The Impact Brands emerges as a collective of diverse brands dedicated to supporting overall wellness through natural means.
Memorial Sloan Kettering selects MyHealthDirect solution for patient self-scheduling
Using the tool, MSK patients can book appointments online with providers in the lymphoma, breast surgery and medical oncology, myeloma, and thoracic surgery and medical oncology service areas.
Lightning Bolt aims to reduce physician burnout through its AI scheduling software
Founded in 2002, the company's cloud-based solution relies on combinatorial optimization technology to create physician shift schedules.
Combining lean thinking with predictive analytics in health systems to transform operational efficiency
The convergence of multiple technologies makes it possible for us to drive a step-change improvement in operational efficiency for hospitals that far exceeds anything that we could have imagined, even a few short years ago.