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OSF deploys care transition program, reduces readmission rate from 29% to 9%

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Patients discharged from hospitals often were readmitted due to complications that could have been prevented with better monitoring and more proactive management, said Matt Nieukirk, director of the SNF practice at OSF HealthCare. "The existing systems were fragmented, with each care setting operating in a silo ," he explained.

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St. Luke’s Health Deploys Epic-Integrated I-PASS Solution for Standardized Handoff Communication

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Luke’s Health System today announced it is implementing Epic-integrated standardized communication tools across the health system and have selected the I-PASS Patient Safety Institute to implement the I-PASS solution. Realizing the benefits of evidence-based patient handoff tools to curb preventable patient harm, St.

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WakeMed to Deploy Regard’s AI Clinical Automation Platform Across Enterprise

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This not only streamlines workflows but also enhances patient care, all without adding extra tasks for busy clinicians. How Regard Works to Benefit Patients and Providers Regard’s AI solution seamlessly integrates into the EHR, automatically reviewing a patient’s entire clinical data to identify crucial information.

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Digitalization in healthcare empowers patients

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The exponential growth in health data from a variety of sources, such as electronic medical records and image databases, makes it difficult to integrate information for optimized decision-making that meets the highest possible standards of care. Staying flexible is the key to digital transformation.

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Prisma Health & Bamboo Health Partner to Deliver Real-Time Patient Intelligence Across South Carolina

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Prisma Health , South Carolina’s leading healthcare organization, has announced an expanded collaboration with Bamboo Health , the leader in Real-Time Care Intelligence™. By doing so, they can truly become an integrated extension of our care team, enabling us to deliver better outcomes and lower costs.”

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From Telemedicine to Complete Virtual Care and Beyond

HIT Consultant

Since its inception, digital health services began the transformation from traditional healthcare — a reactive, disease-focused model — to a proactive, holistic system that is now recognized as virtual care. This remarkable approach to care is digitally integrated, patient-centric and focused on personalized health and wellness.

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Out of Sight: Why Invisible Patient Engagement is Optimal Patient Engagement

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A proliferation of point solutions add value in terms of data collection, but many are tacked onto IT architectures and siloed, resulting in data gaps or cumbersome manual data processing and integration, preventing timely and nuanced data analysis. Tight and immediate data integration has become table stakes.