Healthcare providers, working with tight operating margins, face a classic horns-of-the-dilemma scenario: they must continue to grow their business, and to do so, they must remain competitive in their level of service. This necessitates a refresh of IT technology and a resultant uptick in budget, at a time when overall operational costs continue to rise. All these pressures are felt at the endpoint, and more so now that doctors and nurses are using multiple devices and often traveling to varied locations during a work week. Providing a secure, consistent user experience at the endpoint – one that contributes to quality of care - is now more important than ever.
For technology employers, the recruiting game is fierce, especially for smaller firms that compete with industry giants such as IBM, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Accenture and Cisco. How do smaller contenders take on this ever-growing challenge to attract and retain technical talent? To be successful, it's essential to focus the talent recruiting message on what makes one’s firm different, including what a technically talented person might get from a smaller firm that they may not get elsewhere.
In this era of skilled shortages in healthcare, recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce is no easy task. Yet, it is one of the top priorities of results-oriented healthcare organizations today. Successful diversity programs yield impressive benefits—from greater patient satisfaction to improved outcomes and increased staff productivity. Fortunately, modern talent management technology can help overcome the hiring obstacles.
Healthcare today is a world of proliferating value-based arrangements. In addition to accountable care organizations (ACOs) – a flavor of clinically integrated networks (CINs) – “narrow networks” have emerged as a growing trend as the industry shifts to new alternative payment models.
Many of us are familiar with the term “the internet of things” (IoT), but only some know that the road to IoT began back in 1982, when grad students from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University connected a modified Coke vending machine to the internet. This technology turned the machine into a basic smart device because it was able to provide networked status reports to the students about inventory and temperature control.
SUNY Upstate Medical University wanted to improve their healthcare call center performance and reduce caller wait times, shorten the time spent on each call, lower the call center’s abandonment rates, and provide a better caller and patient experience.
Healthcare organizations need to have true confidence in their data, which is the foundation for all care, reporting, financial, and compliance efforts. However, it’s no secret that the healthcare arena is challenged when it comes to accessing and leveraging that data.
Identifying the three pillars that explain a service management’s solutions strength can be found in three simple principles: it’s standard and simple; it provides a shared service solution; and it provides for service chain integration. These are the pillars in which service management solutions excel, that should be part of its DNA for the benefit of its users and the organizations that employ it.
Quite frankly, we’re even impressed with the research findings. But that’s the type of company AMTELCO is, and that’s the type of company the 1Call Division is. We specialize in offering enterprise-wide communication solutions for healthcare organizations. 1Call has been, and will continue to be the leader in developing, implementing, and maintaining features and technology designed to streamline communications and contain costs throughout your organization.
Vocera empowers care teams through intelligent, real-time communication. We enable communication and coordination across the patient’s Healthcare experience. Vocera helps care team members reach the right person at the right time, on the right device, with the right information, in the right place, anywhere.
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The long-anticipated Report on Improving Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Industry has been released by the HHS Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Task Force, and with it comes clear, prescriptive recommendations on protecting your organization from the growing risk of cyber-attacks.
To protect PHI, healthcare organizations often build a system of usernames and complex passwords. But why are we still relying on usernames and passwords when solutions such as single sign-on (SSO) have a measurable benefit of giving time back to clinicians, which is everything in healthcare. That time saved –amounting to hours per week – can now be spent with patients, increasing both patient and clinician satisfaction.
UW Medicine’s Valley Medical Center dramatically improved patient outcomes after moving to a smartphone-based platform for clinical communication and alarm and alert notification.
