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• Enhancing Patient Education And Care Transitions

  6/22/2016

  Pharmacy expertise central to successful strategy. High performing hospitals and health systems recognize the value of a top-of-license approach to allocating clinical resources. This strategy ensures patients are paired with the right expertise at the right time — ultimately resulting in optimal outcomes.

• False Alarms Have Real Consequences In Hospitals

  10/23/2017

  As we go through our days, we are surrounded by a variety of alerts: clocks alarm in the morning, microwaves ding at lunch and dinner, smartphone reminders chirp throughout the day, and sounds of text messages are often in between. By Todd Plesko, Vice President of Product Strategy, Vocera Communications, Inc.

• CDI Should Be A Top Priority

  3/22/2016

  I had the interesting experience not too long ago of speaking with someone in the financial world who apparently thought himself an expert in healthcare information technology. We were discussing the relative merits of clinical documentation improvement (CDI). I confess that my mind had started to wander as I was trying to recall who said, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.”

• McLaren Health Care Invests In Better Light

  10/16/2017

  Offering $1.6M in annual savings, a Cree® LED lighting upgrade for McLaren Health Care’s 11 primary hospitals was a clear win for the balance sheet.

• Getting The Most Out Of Practice Technology

  5/22/2018

  Even though lots of physician practices have electronic medical records (EMRs) and practice management (PM) systems, many don’t use the technology to its potential. As a result, they miss opportunities to elevate quality reporting and improve practice performance.

• How HIT Can Bridge The Payer/Provider Divide

  8/25/2017

  The era of outright tension between provider organizations, seeking to maximize payments in fee-for-service arrangements and payers, seeking to minimize unit costs, has begun to dissipate.