What is Acute Care? Acute care is active, short-term care for a specific condition. As with every part of healthcare, acute care has a lot of opportunities to continue to improve to provide better, more equitable care for everyone. Improving communication and...
Dr. Williams is a family physician that does home health visits two days a week. She sees a mix of patients that have just been discharged from the hospital and patients with chronic conditions that are regularly monitored. Her day can go very differently depending on...
Value Based Care Challenges Value based care (VBC) is a reimbursement model in which pay is tied to the quality of care, with the goal of enhancing efficiency of care while simultaneously improving patient outcomes. This is compared to the traditional fee-for-service...
Imagine you are a physician at a hospital just coming in for a shift. You get there and go to see the physician you are taking over for. The clinician you meet is exhausted and is rushing to leave. You stand at a table in the hall, and you keep hearing the phone ring,...
Clinicians are central to healthcare. With increasing shortages, organizations need to find ways to recruit and retain their clinicians. One great way to do this is to improve the clinician experience in meaningful ways. A pizza lunch is nice, but this does not fix...
Healthcare is interdisciplinary. Care teams are frequently made up of physicians, nurses, physician’s assistants, pharmacists, therapists, social workers, and more. However, many pharmacists are not thought of as part of the care team, even though they are the most...
In 2020 there were 46 million U.S. residents - 14% of the U.S. population - living in rural areas. While healthcare across the country could be improved, rural healthcare faces some unique and exacerbated challenges. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, it was...
The real-time collaboration tool will make it easier for telemedicine clinicians to provide care in areas with clinician shortages Philadelphia, PA (August 9, 2022) ‒ CareAlign, a care orchestration platform, has partnered with telemedicine provider RemoteMDER to...
EHRs are a divisive topic. Some clinicians hate them and feel like they are causing burnout. Patients may feel like technology take away from the patient-provider relationship. Advocates for EHR believe they are a necessary step to pushing healthcare in the 21st...