The Pennsylvania health system has eliminated redundant processes and reduced the time and number of people involved in a discharge while boosting patient satisfaction scores. Patient discharge can be ...

The healthcare landscape is undergoing a significant transformation, with health information exchanges (HIEs) and health data utilities (HDUs) playing a pivotal role in facilitating the secure ...

Healthcare: try to name a sector in which the importance of process excellence is higher. You’ll struggle. Every decision, every action, every allocation of personnel or resources has a direct impact ...

Every healthcare provider, pharmacist and patient in the U.S. dreads saying or hearing the words, “You’ll need prior authorization for that.” Prior authorization is a bottleneck that slows down care, ...

Nurse leader rounding is a critical, daily activity that monitors patients and identifies potential threats to their safety, recovery and satisfaction—but that is just the beginning of what is needed.

Integrating an elderly patient’s informal caregivers — family members, friends, partners, neighbors and other loved ones — into the discharge process may potentially reduce the patient’s likelihood of ...

STRAIN ON STAFFING AT HOSPITALS, ENOUGH TO CAUSE BURNOUT EVEN AMONG VETERAN NURSES. TONIGHT, WE’RE GETTING OUR FIRST LOOK AT A NEW PROGRAM DESIGNED TO CHANGE THAT AT SOME OF OMAHA’S BIGGEST HOSPITALS.

Kunal is a thought leader in Digital Journal’s Insight Forum (become a member). The intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytics-based decision support systems has the potential to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The overwhelming majority of rheumatology practices have no formal policy for transitioning pediatric patients ...

When patients are suffering from life-threatening illnesses or debilitating health conditions, the only thing that should matter is delivering appropriate evidence-based treatments in a timely manner.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The patient — a man in his mid-60s with advanced cancer — had been in severe pain despite being on a high dose ...