A Skilled Nursing Facility, or SNF, is a post-acute care facility where nurses, under the supervision of a medical doctor, provide care to patients as the patient recovers before transitioning home. SNFs have a lot of patients quickly transfer in and out of their...
A health information exchange, or HIE, is an electronic collection of health information that is securely shared among clinicians and health organizations. There are three main forms of HIEs: Directed Exchange, Query-Based Exchange, and Consumer Mediated Exchange. A...
Climate change is causing extreme weather events, rising sea levels, increases in pollutants, and other natural disasters that negatively impact health around the world. While everyone is impacted by it to some extent, climate change disproportionately impacts people...
You probably multitask every day. It might be responding to emails while sitting in a Zoom meeting. Scrolling through Instagram while walking to the store. Or sending a text and talking to a friend while watching TV. Multitasking has become a normal part of many...
Before we get into improving the patient experience, let’s take a minute to talk about what it is. Patient experience encompasses the entire journey a patient goes through to receive care. This includes (but is not limited to) scheduling appointments, waiting in a...
Project management is prevalent in almost every industry. From building a machine to creating software to planning an event, project management is key to getting all tasks and goals accomplished within a set time frame. It helps break down complex projects into...
Telehealth has become increasingly more common in healthcare. In spring of 2020, there was a huge spike in telehealth visits. This number decreased by mid-2021, but usage rates were still 38 times higher than pre-COVID levels. This is because a lot of patients like...
Physician burnout is a problem that is not going away. A Mayo Clinic study found that in 2021, 62.8% of physicians had at least 1 manifestation of burnout. This is similar to a Kaiser Family Foundation and Washington Post study, which found that 55% of frontline...
When caring for patients, there are a lot of tasks that clinicians need to do. You may need to call another clinician for a consult, send a referral for a patient to see a specialist, order a refill for a prescription, respond to a call from a patient or another...