Aggregating Patient Data in an Ocean of Healthcare Information
According to the Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2017, primary care physicians spend about 15 minutes with each patient, and what they cover is extensive—an average of six health concerns per visit. Now, with digital care delivery in the mix and the complications of a pandemic, burnout has become a major problem for physicians. So how can the industry make sure that technological advances help physicians make the best use of their time with the patient and look for the most important data points during each visit?
Collecting Patient-Reported Outcomes Data at Scale: Why Volume Matters
Many commercial health plans require PROM collection for participation in value-based programs, while accountable care organizations use PROMs to measure and incentivize providers for maintaining certain quality standards. According to the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, 24% of clinical data registries have already incorporated PROs into their datasets.
What’s Actually Driving Safe Healthcare?
Over the last 20 years, much more focus has been placed on areas such as safety and efficiency rather than equity, resulting in inconsistent or episodic progress in each area. For example, safety has arguably received most of the attention and focus, but somehow, preventable harm is still frequent across the continuum of care.
Securing Healthcare Data: Protecting Mainframes During COVID and Beyond
Hospitals and other healthcare organizations must look for new ways to secure their data, but one area in their IT infrastructure is often overlooked: mainframe security. Ray Overby, co-founder and CTO of Key Resources, Inc., says that while the current healthcare environment has brought attention to the cybersecurity threats facing healthcare organizations, mainframes still fly under the radar.
In a Post-Pandemic World, Let’s Take a Holistic Approach to Patient Health
As we recover from a worldwide pandemic—a crisis that has cost millions of lives and crippled economies, infrastructure, and governments—many healthcare organizations are realizing that they can achieve far better outcomes if they consider all of the social determinants of health.
Addressing Referral Leakage for Post-Surgical Care
If money were no issue, building more clinics would be a great way to prevent referral leakage, but short of that, organizations have to find a way to differentiate their network’s care as better, safer, and more convenient than the competition.
ABQAURP News: November 2021
Join ABQAURP at our Annual Health Care Quality & Patient Safety Conference in Clearwater Beach, FL, as we bring these leaders together to discover the innovations and approaches that have evolved from the swift changes made throughout health care.
Improving Remote Monitoring to Care for Isolated Seniors
With physician’s offices overwhelmed and, as a matter of safety, keeping in-office care limited to those who most need it, remote monitoring solutions can pick up signs and symptoms, track blood pressures, and more in the home—and often treat patients in the home as well.
Insight in Preparedness for Healthcare Facilities
Here, we will analyze several of the key drivers of hospital/medical facility planning and design required to meet future needs—including the need for energy efficiency, an understanding of available redundancy, and a comparison of first costs versus life cycle costs.
An Orchestra of Care: Transparency for Patients at Home
While hesitancy to enter a nursing home during the COVID-19 pandemic was expected given the challenges the industry faced in 2020, patients expressed a growing preference for home over nursing care even pre-pandemic. This meant that the industry’s focus had to expand into home health agencies, infusion providers, non-emergency transportation, durable medical equipment and home medical equipment providers, and more.