Communication with patients should be a top area of focus as urgent cares look to develop their marketing strategies, tailored to each generation they are trying to reach, with an eye toward relieving unnecessary demand on emergency departments.
Crowded EDs will continue to plague the healthcare ecosystem and prevent the efficient delivery of care if the structure and education of care, resources, and availability are kept the same. UC can step in with its well-equipped and trained staff so that EDs can focus on what they do best, care for life-threatening situations.
At the Payer Insights sessions on Day 1 of ViVE 2024, a panel on prior authorization offered compelling insights from speakers who shared the positive developments in this area after years of mounting frustration. Speakers also shared challenges as they work with providers to figure out how policy developments and technology will work in practice.
ED crowding is therefore an issue in the healthcare landscape where desperate need for change is meeting huge potential for innovation, and an international consortium should be formed to capitalize on this convergence.
UnitedHealthcare is instituting a new policy beginning July 1 that changes how the payer assesses emergency department claims, allowing it to retroactively deny ones it deems "non-emergent" or not an emergency. The American College of Emergency Physicians has made its opposition clear, stating the policy may violate federal law.
After Massachusetts banned ambulance diversions in 2009, waiting times for patients admitted to the hospital fell by 10.4 percent at nine hospitals in the Boston area.
Mobile apps are helping to accelerate the shift.
The TSX Venture Exchange has a strong history of helping early-stage health and life sciences companies raise patient capital for research and development.
Ten years after starting to track patient throughput in one ED, PeaceHealth has integrated the Versus Technology RTLS with the hospital admit-discharge-transfer system and created a dashboard to track patient, staff and equipment movement throughout multiple departments. EHR integration is next.
Maybe Code Black is the new normal?
If everyone hates wait times for patients, they why haven't they changed?
Today, the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa is turning attention to the strategies hospitals use to contain infectious diseases. How do emergency departments serve and treat highly contagious patients while keeping other patients, clinicians, and the community at large safe? Are U.S. hospitals prepared for outbreaks of highly contagious diseases? Many of the answers […]
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Scott Paul knew he needed to head to the emergency room on a recent Sunday after his foot became so painful he couldn’t walk. The one thing that gave him pause was the thought of having to wait several hours next to a bunch of sick people. But his wife, Jeannette, remembered she’d seen Dignity […]
An ambulance races down an empty street in Folkston, Ga., population about 5,000. It bypasses Charlton Memorial Hospital, makes a sharp right turn and speeds to an emergency room 40 miles away. Why? Because Charlton Memorial Hospital has been closed since last August. Four of Georgia’s 65 rural hospitals have shut down over the past […]
I’m now able to publicly write about the work that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has been doing with stealthy start up, Wearable Intelligence. We’ve been working over the past 4 months on pilots that I believe will improve the safety, quality and efficiency of patient care through the integration of wearable technology such as […]
Talk about empathy. It was impossible not to feel it for both the patients and the hospital staff in The Waiting Room, a documentary that aired on PBS last night. The film follows patients and hospital staff through 24 hours in the overcrowded Emergency Department of a charity hospital stretched to beyond its limits. More […]
A 58-year-old Maryland woman breaks her ankle, develops a blood clot and, unable to find a doctor to monitor her blood-thinning drug, winds up in an emergency room 30 times in six months. A 55-year-old Mississippi man with severe hypertension and kidne...