How COVID-19 Is Changing Digital Health
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations were faced with the herculean task of updating decades of physical data to EHRs. This task has been drawn out for a long time, to the point where earlier EHRs themselves are outdated enough to require another...
Patient Data Access is Self-Correcting
The eternal struggle of managing EHRs lies in ensuring that they contain consistent and correct information. With varied infrastructures across care providers and plenty of room for error, it’s easy for a mistake to be lost and never found, potentially leading to harm...
Remote Patient Monitoring Tools and the Pandemic
It seems that the COVID-19 pandemic brings new challenges to healthcare every day. Recurring issues include shortages of staff, rationing personal protective equipment, and ensuring that healthcare professionals are as safe as can be while treating patients who have...
Tips For A Great Telehealth Patient Experience
Many industries, including healthcare, have begun to turn to digital formats as they’ve been forced into remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth care access has become more commonplace over the years for patients with low-acuity health needs, but now that...
Establishing a Culture of Nursing Excellence
Every aspect of the team is important in a hospital, but nurses fill a particular niche distinct from doctors, surgeons, and administration. Nurses are the main point of contact for patients, meaning they have a lot of power when it comes to driving patient...
How Smart Hospital Rooms Are Improving The Patient Experience
Technology has done wonders when it comes to making things more convenient. Smart devices exist for most aspects of life such as our phones, our refrigerators, and even our cars. Healthcare is beginning to take advantage of these smart technologies as well, especially...
Genetic Testing Today
When looking to identify a genetic disease, genetic testing serves as a valuable practice that can highlight factors that may have previously gone undetected. In some regards, genetic testing is still in development, as the practice continues to advance with each...
The Impact of Physician Empathy on Patient Care
The healthcare industry is continually aiming to provide a better patient experience, with doctors looking to improve their own patient-provider communication skills. Of all those skills, physician empathy reigns supreme, regardless of a lack of understanding among...
Staying Productive in the Face of Clinician Burnout
As the healthcare industry goes through rapid changes in an effort to provide more data-driven care, physician burnout has only increased. Though burnout can affect professionals in any industry, it affects 83 percent of hospitals, causing long-term stress,...
Digital Medical Finance Tools—The Paradox of Patient Care
The paradox of patient care is that, despite widespread resistance to online portal adoption, patients still demand access to such tools in order to help manage their medical finances. This further emphasizes a need to further develop digital care options for the sake...