How to Enhance the Accuracy of Healthcare Predictive Analytics
Generating accurate and meaningful healthcare forecasts can be challenging, as models must be configured and managed properly in order to drive such results. This article covers healthcare predictive analytics accuracy and provides recommendations for enhancing it.
Revolutionizing Mental Healthcare Through AI-Enhanced Provider-Patient Relationships
As we stand at the intersection of behavioral health and cutting-edge technology, we must ask ourselves: How can we leverage these tools to not only improve patient outcomes but also strengthen the crucial provider-patient relationship?
Putting the ‘Where’ in Patient Care
Nearly a quarter of hospital admissions resulted in at least one adverse event in 2018 and 23% of those events were deemed to be preventable. Between 2023 and 2024, hospitals experienced a double-digit increase in non-labor expenses, according to Strata. As a result, 40% of American hospitals had been losing money from operations during that time, KaufmanHall found.
Virtual Triage: A New Way of Identifying Patients in Need of Emergency Care
Virtual triage (VT) engines can be thought of as “symptom checkers” that leverage artificial intelligence to provide access to information services beyond physician office hours on an anywhere, anytime basis from any internet-connected device.
Transforming Precision Surgery: The Vital Role of Data-Driven Surgical Navigation Systems
We are scratching the surface of comprehending the full spectrum of benefits and their potential for advancing medical practice. As we look to the future of personalized medicine, it quickly becomes clear that medical technology and surgical insights will be a driving force behind healthcare data collection.
The Effectiveness and Cost-Savings of Addressing SDoH
In 2024, CMS is also introducing two new inpatient quality reporting measures: SDoH screening and the positive rate for SDoH screening to assess how many patients aged 18 and older were screened for the required social risk drivers.
Can NPs and PAs Replace Physicians?
Non-physician providers like nurse practitioners and physician assistants have formally been around since the 1960s, but over the last 10 to 15 years, there’s been large growth in these areas, Bernard notes. In 2020, the number of non-physician providers was around 277,000, but more recent tallies bring that number to 545,000.
Reducing Workplace Violence for Nurses
According to the Emergency Nurses Association, seven out of 10 emergency room nurses report being kicked or hit on the job, and one in four nurses in general report having experienced workplace violence involving a patient—and that such violence is underreported.
Mobile: Healthcare’s New Access-to-Care Differentiator
The opportunity to improve access to care via mobile is significant but only if consumer experiences meet expectations and drive adoption and reuse.
Leveraging Call Centers for Better Patient Care
Organizations can take advantage of patient/member interactions to drive better results by taking care of important but routine additional interactions, notes Patty Hayward, GM of healthcare and life sciences with Talkdesk.