What is Healthcare Interoperability? Solving the Puzzle with careMESH
By Sarah Doss
In an ideal world, healthcare providers could seamlessly exchange patient information, ensuring every clinician has the correct data at the right time to deliver optimal care. Unfortunately, reality often falls short of this vision due to fragmented systems, outdated communication methods, and interoperability roadblocks.
Spring Cleaning for Healthcare: 5 Ways to Refresh Your Digital Workflows with Ease
By Sarah Doss
Spring isn’t just for tidying up your home—it’s the perfect time to clean up your IT systems! Just as cluttered desks can slow productivity, outdated or inefficient workflows can create unnecessary headaches for care teams. Here are five ways to refresh your healthcare IT infrastructure and optimize efficiency this season.
Using Technology to Improve Patient Navigation and Equity in Cancer Care
Cancer care is a complex journey. Patients often need help navigating the many challenges they face. As navigation advances and the nursing shortage grows, technology must be key in supporting the patient journey.
Three EHR Tweaks to Support Patient Navigation
Modern healthcare is a team effort, with patient navigators pivotal in ensuring smooth care coordination. While electronic health records (EHRs) excel at managing clinical tasks, they often fall short of supporting the complex needs of patient navigators.
2024: The Year Patient Navigation Goes Mainstream
By Dr. Peter S. Tippett & Ryan Slattery
Forget Oura Rings and Oat Milk Lattes—the trend in 2024 with the most staying power and impact will be four new billing codes buried in CMS 2024 Physician Fee Schedule.
How Clinical Service Lines Automate Workflows for Better Monitoring & Reporting
By Samantha Davis Knapp BSN, RN
Workflows surround us everyday. From our morning routines to how oil is changed in a vehicle, these processes are known as workflows. No matter the industry, every profession must optimize their efficiency.
Sticky Note vs. Digital Workflows: Which should you rely on for better patient care?
By Samantha Davis Knapp BSN, RN
Communication matters. It matters in personal and professional relationships, and it matters in healthcare to ensure the best possible patient outcomes.
The Top Five IT Concerns for Navigating the Digital Healthcare Landscape
by Sarah Doss
As the healthcare industry embraces digital transformation, Chief Technology Officers and Chief Information Officers are on the front lines—ensuring efficient and secure technology adoption. But C-Suite leaders face big challenges as they work toward digital excellence while prioritizing patient care.
Let's Get Healthcare Communicating with Ease
We’ve all been there. Someone in our family (or ourselves) has a medical concern, schedules a primary care visit, and maybe even learns that surgery is needed. What starts as a fairly simple process quickly turns into a near-comedy of inefficiency.
Public Health, Disease Surveillance, and the Opportunity for Master Data Management
U.S. cities have had more than their share of disease outbreaks, including Swine Flu, Zika, Measles, and, more recently, COVID-19 and MonkeyPox. The roles of local and state Departments of Health are only more important.
The Burning Platform: Healthcare is in Dire Need of Change
The healthcare industry is at a Burning Platform moment: we must build a bridge between the current fee-for-service business model and a value-based, population health model.