PSQH: The Podcast Episode 113 – Addressing Workforce Hurdles and Improving Patient Care
On episode 113 of PSQH: The Podcast, Michael Charlton, CEO of AtlantiCare, and Helene Burns, Chief Nurse Executive at AtlantiCare, talk about how addressing workforce hurdles can improve patient care.
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.
Predictive AI Helps Providers Plan Patient Care
At West Tennessee Healthcare, executives say they’ve saved more than $5 million over the past year by using an AI platform from Xsolis to review patient data, enabling them to predict when a patient will be discharged and communicate with payers on authorizations and any denials.
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.
How Clinicians Can Avoid ‘Medspeak’ When Communicating with Patients
“Medspeak” is characterized as medical terminology used by clinicians that leads to communication gaps with patients. Medspeak gets in the way of effective shared decision-making for clinicians and patients.
Telling a Better Care Story with Health Risk Assessments
Unlock Health has designed its Substance Abuse HRA, an online health risk assessment, to enable behavioral health treatment centers, healthcare providers, and integrated health systems a way to accurately identify individuals at risk for SUD and engage with them early on to personalize treatment plans and provide better outcomes.
MetroHealth Achieves Interoperability Between Visitor Management and EMR Platforms for Secure, Real-Time Patient Visitor Monitoring
From the early planning stages of construction, MetroHealth leaders placed a high priority on the safety and security of their patients, visitors, and staff. Implementing a visitor management system was one way to enable this requirement.
What I Wish I Had Known
Safety in healthcare has undergone nothing short of a revolution. Having spent years navigating these complexities, I’ve learned a few things—often the hard way—that I would impart to my younger self, who created the safety program at Brigham and Women’s many years ago.
Can Alzheimer’s Be Diagnosed by an Eye Test?
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are touting the results of three recent studies that indicate an eye test could be used to assess the eye-brain connection, which would allow clinicians to diagnose Alzheimer’s earlier and begin treatment.
Ambient AI is Fast Becoming the Clinician’s Favorite Tool
The technology acts as a medical scribe, listening to the doctor-patient encounter and transcribing the interaction for the medical record. The finished product is available shortly after the encounter, enabling clinicians to quickly review and edit the information before it’s populated in the EHR.