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HIM Director’s Guide to Driving New Efficiency in ROI

MRO Compliance

This is especially true in the wake of COVID-19 and increasing financial distress. These are the new metrics that matter—with overall cost reduction and patient satisfaction in mind. Please fill out the following form to download the guide “HIM Director’s Guide to Driving New Efficiency in ROI.”

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Accenture polled 2,700 patients around the world, 450 participants each from China, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S.

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Upstate Medical University decreases no-shows by 59% with telehealth, which patients love

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. This allowed providers and staff to call into COVID-19 rooms from the nursing station.

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Ochsner Health successfully treats chronic disease patients via telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Recognizing burnout among frontline workers in our hospital system over the last several years, the opportunity to 'mix it up' and see patients in different settings for both the provider and the patient has been most welcome." A soaring Net Promoter Score. out of 100.

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Stony Brook Medicine crafts a telehealth strategic plan that bears fruit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4

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Is the Smartphone Key to Unlocking Frictionless Patient Registration?

HIT Consultant

While reimbursement reforms and regulatory actions have helped realize measurable gains in population health and overall spending, progress on the patient experience piece hasn’t always been as clear-cut. Firstly, patient satisfaction is a hard concept to quantify. Even the basic patient check-in is fraught with problems.

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Virginia Hospital Center combines Epic, wayfinding and more for a popular mobile app

Healthcare It News

It's also not uncommon for patients to have two or three appointments on the same day in different departments on different floors of different buildings. Concierge and staff members always are willing to help patients and guests find their way, but this turns out to be a major patient satisfaction issue.

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