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• Patient Experience And Design At Mayo Clinic: Case Study

  1/17/2013

  The goal of Patient Experience Design is to “express organizational culture through physical spaces.” Most medical centers have attractive public areas; some hospitals display works of art. But do your patients and staff know the ethos of your organization … the qualities that make it unique and set it apart from the competition … your historic accomplishments and goals for the future?

• National Health IT Week: Streamlining Patient Care by Minimizing Alarm Fatigue

  10/5/2015

  National Health IT Week is about recognizing the ways delivery of care is changing. Healthcare is in a period of transition that is changing how care is delivered. Health information is shared, quality is measured, reimbursements are dispersed, and patients are becoming engaged in their own. Today’s technology is advancing quickly and is a reliable tool to support these changes and advancements. Nurses are at the forefront of transforming care with increased responsibility placed on them to achieve better patient outcomes. As nurses balance delivering care at more reasonable costs with providing chronic care management to an aging, sicker, and more diverse population, supporting technology must be finely tuned to meet their needs. By Rhonda Collins, Chief Nursing Officer, Vocera Communications

• Leveraging Smart Availability To Enhance Data Analytics And Decision-Making Precision

  6/20/2018

  Today, it is widely accepted that decision-making precision can best be accomplished with accurate and timely data analytics. Seemingly every day, new technologies and methodologies are introduced promising data analytics nirvana, for any number of use cases.

• Outpatient Providers: Unsung Health IT Heroes

  9/27/2016

  It’s National Health IT Week, a time to raise awareness of how information technology (IT) is being used to advance healthcare. By David McMullan, PT, Chief Therapy Officer, SourceMed

• Digital Transformation: Tech Challenges For Healthcare Modernization

  4/11/2018

  The healthcare industry is in the midst of a dramatic digital transformation, marked by a host of new back-end technologies that promise to modernize hospitals and lay the foundation for a truly digital workplace in the year ahead. Hospitals and healthcare systems are challenged with striking a delicate balance between running a smooth, efficient operation while remaining flexible and devoted to patient care in a modern age. This creates significant procurement challenges, requiring hospitals to embrace new technologies and innovations at a seemingly breakneck pace while also keeping an eye on the bottom line.

• HIPAA Compliance In The Age Of Mobile Messaging

  10/25/2019

  Mobile messaging has permeated a variety of industries, offering anyone with access to a smartphone the opportunity to quickly and easily communicate across their organization in an accessible and familiar manner. For an industry as demanding and fast-paced as healthcare, mobile messaging has emerged as a particularly valuable tool.