The sophistication of data collection and analytics tools for tracking consumer behavior expanded with technological advancement and broader distribution of consumer technology.
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How to Effectively Choose and Assign Clinical Staff
Although information technology cannot replace the staff delivering care to patients, it can assist organizations in choosing the best talent available, help develop that talent, and determine the best way to utilize the skills of these professionals.
Continue readingA Symphony of Evidence-based Staffing
In many ways healthcare is like a symphony orchestra. Although information technology can enhance care planning, assist in medication administration, and reduce duplicative testing, it cannot replace the people required to deliver care services to patients.
Continue readingRailroads, Weed and EMRs
In the early 1970s, Larry Weed, MD further developed his structured documentation approach and described the problem-oriented medical record (POMR).
Continue readingProperly Staffing Our Organizations With Nurses?
Fortunately, the expansion in the use of electronic medical records provides the clinical content data that can help accurately drive patient acuity scoring.
Continue readingBacchus and Healthcare
In the absence of understandable, easily accessible quality metrics, we utilize price as a surrogate for quality.
Continue readingWhatsApp Lessons to Engage Patients
Rather than think this consumer engagement only benefits the companies deploying the technology, consumers embrace these new processes because they also obtain benefits from doing so.
Continue readingOur Tower of Babel
Although this explains well why communication is so difficult among people from different countries, it fails to address the inability of our various healthcare information technology (HIT) systems to exchange patient data seamlessly.
Continue readingEvolving to Health 3.0
Organizations that will survive under the new realities of ACA recognize the power of healthcare information technology (HIT) to assist them in reworking their business processes and clinical workflows to achieve the goal of high quality, affordable care.
Continue readingCare Collaboration in a Value-Based World
Organizations that will survive under the new realities of ACA recognize the power of healthcare information technology (HIT) to assist them in reworking their business processes and clinical workflows to achieve the goal of high quality, affordable care.
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