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AI-powered process improvement shows big patient experience ROI

Healthcare It News

"The genesis of our process improvement work and the focus and goal of our process improvement is to improve the patient experience, reduce anxiety and fear, and ultimately improve psychological readiness for surgery," said Anita H. But that is surely not the case for the patients.

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EMR systems shift nurses’ attention away from patients

Healthcare It News

However, attention has shifted from the patient to the EMR system, with nurses spending 20-40% of their time on the EMR platform. As hospitals become more automated, with the addition of digital tools and food delivery robots, patient expectations are increasingly creating a new issue of alarm fatigue for nursing staff.

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O.R. Optimization Process Improvement for Implant Management | EP. 32

Vie Healthcare

Jim Ferch ( 09:36 ): So you know, when a case is completed, a circulating nurse takes those stickers who runs over to the computer and in the OR, that was… The case was just completed, and documents the charting information for those implants for that patient account.

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Efficiently Sustainable: How Hospitals Can Create Operational Sustainability

HIT Consultant

Connie Moser, Chief Executive Officer, Navenio If any sector requires process improvement, it’s healthcare. Nurses spend 10% of their time searching for equipment (according to a 2009 study ) and sadly little has changed in more than a decade. How can nursing technology drive sustainable improvements?

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Empowering Staff, Improving Patient Outcomes, and Optimizing Operations with Digital Transformation

HIT Consultant

According to a recent AMN Healthcare survey focused on the ongoing impact of the pandemic, 30% of nurses say they remain likely to leave their career in healthcare and 18% say they will retire from nursing, demonstrating a continued drop in retention and satisfaction. Time constraints are noted as a key factor in physician burnout.

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HiMS Unveils AI-powered EHR That Saves Clinicians 2 Hours Daily

HIT Consultant

The future of health care includes AI, and AxiomEHR is on the forefront of innovation and process improvement.” “AxiomEHR stands out among other EHRs, leading the charge in functionality and quality-based care. Moreover, the system handles service plans, appointment scheduling, and lab test arrangements.

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Quality Improvement: Eliminating the Silo Effect in Healthcare Organizations

HIT Consultant

In an environment where tools are available to bring multiple teams together collaboratively, the QI department might work with the nursing and patient safety teams to sift through published literature and rapidly identify promising process improvements that would drive CAUTI rates down. Eliminating the silo effect.