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• Dancing With The Patients: Patient Engagement Edition

  6/14/2017

  Anyone who is familiar with Dancing with the Stars understands the importance of having a great partner. On the TV show, experienced professional dancers are often paired with celebrities who have little-to-no dancing background.

• Keys To Building A Fortified Staffing Process Ahead Of The Nurse Retirement Surge

  12/18/2015

  AMN Healthcare recently released its 2015 Survey of Registered Nurses. This research included input from nearly 9,000 RNs on topics ranging from retirement, education, and emerging roles. A number of the findings struck me, the following two especially:

  • 62 percent of RNs over 54 are thinking about retirement and most say they plan to retire within three years
  • RNs love their career choice, but have mixed feelings about their job, citing not having adequate time with their patients, feeling their job negatively affects their health, and so on

  That leaves us with the most experienced nurses nearing retirement and the majority of remaining nurses not feeling overjoyed with their jobs, although they love nursing. This points to an overwhelming need to improve conditions for care staff. Typically, the top dissatisfier for staff are staffing/scheduling issues, e.g., being short, having to float, having shifts cancelled, and being recruited constantly to pick up additional shifts. One of the solutions to this critical concern is a combination of technology and workforce strategies that can provide more certainty with staffing, greater work-life balance, and increased time with patients. By Chris Fox, president, Avantas

• On The Road To Connected Care: The Promise Of Interoperability

  5/5/2017

  Consider this scenario: Felecia Martin described the moment she learned she was pregnant as the happiest of her life. By Rakesh Mathew, program manager, HealthShare Exchange of Southeastern Pennsylvania

• Stromberg Enterprise Time And Attendance For Healthcare

  11/24/2009

  Research indicates that staff and labor expenses encompass more than 60% of a healthcare organization’s operating costs. To better manage an organization’s most important business asset ? its employees ? an accurate time and attendance system is critical. By Stromberg
• It's Time To Rip Off The ETL Band-Aid

  3/3/2016

  It’s time to remove the ETL (extract-transform-load) band-aid, STAT. ETL served an admirable purpose for the last two decades, but today’s volume and complexity of data are overwhelming ETL tools. These technologies that were supposed to solve data problems have now become a hindrance — and it’s time to let them go.

• How Bright Oaks Pediatrics Provides Patients Quality Pediatric-Specific Experiences

  7/3/2017

  Improve quality of care through a pediatric specific EHR technology