The Importance of Patient Engagement in Healthcare
Patient engagement in healthcare is defined as patients actively engaged in gathering information and making decisions about their health.
Author
Will O’Connor M.D.
CMIO at TigerConnect – Will O’Connor is an orthopedic surgeon by trade. He brings significant clinical experience and extensive knowledge of the inefficiencies plaguing our healthcare system from outdated technology to outmoded processes. He has helped large health systems, academic medical centers, and community hospitals leverage secure healthcare communication and collaboration to advance their clinical and financial goals.
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12 Proven Strategies to Reduce Patient Churn and Boost Hospital Revenue
There are four main factors by which patient satisfaction can be evaluated[4] include: Care, Empathy, Reliability, and Responsiveness. Read about the 12 methods hospitals can employ to target the four factors above and reduce patient churn.
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Unseen Chaos: How Too Many Communication Tools Disrupt Healthcare Efficiency
Healthcare providers are juggling too many communication tools, leading to delays, frustration, and even compromised patient care. This blog explores how communication overload impacts healthcare efficiency and patient outcomes—and why standardizing on a unified platform like TigerConnect can streamline workflows, reduce errors, and improve care delivery.
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Healthcare’s Silent Struggle: The Prevalence and Impact of Communication Noise
Communication noise disrupts healthcare workflows, impacting patient care and contributing to clinician burnout. A recent survey by TigerConnect and Becker’s Healthcare highlights the prevalence of these challenges and the need for standardized communication platforms to reduce inefficiencies and improve care outcomes.
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Ending Collaboration Waste to Save the Healthcare System
Poor collaboration leads to overall slowness throughout the care journey, which leads to poor quality, poor experience and more expensive care. Learn how TigerConnect can reduce Collaboration Waste to help clinicians get more done during the day, reducing costs, improving throughput, serving more patients, and gaining more revenue for the hospital.
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Benefits of Interprofessional Collaboration in Healthcare
Learn what interprofessional collaboration is, why it’s important in healthcare, and how you can provide your care team with the right clinical communication and collaboration (CC&C) tools.
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Why EHR Communication Falls Short in Urgent Situations
EHR vendors advise against using EHR chat for urgent communications, and explicitly state that EHR chat should not be used for emergency communications. Care teams are only as fast as their communication tools allow them to be. To speed care delivery in an emergency, you need tools that go beyond clunky chat interfaces. A clinical communication and collabroation (CC&C) paltform helps hospitals achieve greater efficiency around critical response workflows (like code blue, sepsis, STEMIs, strokes, and critical labs) to ultimately deliver better care, faster.
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Improving Patient Safety Through Unified Clinical Collaboration
Accurate and real-time communication across healthcare providers is critical to patient safety and care. Clinical communication and collaboration platforms offer providers the tools necessary to quickly identify and address risks, improve continuity of care, and increase the overall quality of service to patients.
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CIO Guide to EHR Integration
EHR systems were not intended for communication, which means they lack the flexibility and inclusivity to make great collaboration possible. Integrating EHRs with simple and secure CC&C tools can expedite workflow, improve patient outcomes, and protect patient security.
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How Healthcare Technology Can Bridge the Gap in Patient Communication
The emergence of advanced healthcare technology has transformed the way care teams and patients communicate, improving collaboration and patient care.
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