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Patient experience, safety worse during pandemic, Leapfrog says

Health Care Dive

Patients reported issues with hospital staff responsiveness and said their experiences with care transitions out of a hospital setting worsened considerably during the pandemic, according to the watchdog.

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

Healthcare It News

"This integrated, technology-enhanced approach has not only proven effective but has also set a new standard for how care transitions should be managed to achieve the best possible patient outcomes," Nieukirk said. Ultimately, the goal of implementing any new systems should be to improve patient health outcomes.

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Radial Analytics Raises $3M to Optimize Patient Care Transitions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Radial Analytics , a Concord, MA-based company optimizing patient care transitions with real-time decision-support solutions for payers and providers, today announced it has raised $3M in funding led by Initialized Capital. Such opportunities to intervene often occur at care transitions.

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SMS Marketing in Healthcare: Revolutionizing Patient Engagement and Outcomes

Healthcare Success

Strategic Applications To further elevate your marketing strategy, consider these strategic applications: Care coordination updates to keep patients informed about care transitions, referrals, and appointment changes. Insurance verification reminders to streamline administrative processes and improve patient experience.

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2025: The 'great tech reckoning' and the 'real' AI revolution

Healthcare It News

Care management , long viewed as a behind-the-scenes function, is poised to emerge as healthcare's supply chain powerhouse in 2025. Often underestimated, these teams are critical in coordinating patient care transitions, securing necessary resources and managing billions of dollars in annual spending.

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M&A: Health Catalyst Acquires Upfront Healthcare Services

HIT Consultant

Expanding Patient Engagement Capabilities Health Catalyst is enhancing its patient experience offerings by integrating Upfronts patient acquisition and scheduling technology with its existing platforms, including Twistle Patient Engagement by Health Catalyst and Lumeon by Health Catalyst Care Orchestration.

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3 Ways Post-Acute Placement Solutions Improve Transitions of Care

HIT Consultant

By streamlining many of the basic processes associated with transitions of care, these solutions enable health systems to enhance patient flow and throughput, improving the patient experience, reducing wait times, and enabling valuable and scarce clinical workers to operate at the tops of their licenses.