Nurses at the Heart of Healthcare Contest

cheryl 05 06, 2022

The American Nurses Association established National Nurses Week in 1985 to honor nurses' contributions to advancing the profession and the healthcare industry. The celebration has since expanded into an entire month, which is a great opportunity to highlight how important...

cheryl 04 28, 2022

Collaboration is key to success in any organization, but even more so in healthcare. Speed to care is a critical driver, especially when treating patients with severe conditions. Nurse and physician communication must be in sync to share insights and...

harish 04 26, 2022

Doctors’ offices, clinics, urgent care facilities, and other medical outposts are the front lines of healthcare. That’s where patients have most of their regular interactions with caregivers. Efforts to transform relationships between healthcare consumers and the industry at large must...

myron 04 22, 2022

People who have worked on a care delivery team have a different definition of the word “collaboration” from their peers in the corporate world. While collaborating on the design of a product, for example, is broadly analogous to collaborating on...

melody 04 21, 2022

Hospice is a scary word that often carries with it a negative connotation. Many patients and their families believe it’s a place you go to give up on life and throw in the towel. Patients often fear their medical care...

julie 04 14, 2022

Since 1978, Hosparus Health has provided hospice and palliative care to patients in Kentucky and Indiana. They are a fully accredited, non-profit organization providing medical care, grief counseling, pain management, and much more for patients and families facing serious and...

ricardo-estrada 04 13, 2022

From misdiagnoses to costly and even life-threatening mistakes, medical safety experts have found that poor communications result in 1.7 billion in malpractice costs and almost 2,000 preventable deaths annually. While hospitals and specialty clinics may have best-in-class care professionals and...

will-oconnor 04 06, 2022

In our previous post, How Alarm Management Brings Additional Value to Your EHR, we explored how TigerConnect Alarm Management & Event Notification brings value to your EHR without disrupting existing clinical systems. Now, let’s examine how integrating alarm management and...

chris-lowder 03 25, 2022

40 - 80 percent of the medical information provided by healthcare practitioners is forgotten immediately. Almost half of the information that is remembered is incorrect. In the status-quo patient-provider relationship, communications between patients and physicians can feel like a one-way...

karri 03 24, 2022

The annual HIMSS22 conference in Orlando, FL, was a welcome return to in-person events with insightful sessions covering healthcare topics, such as data and information, health equity, and the patient experience. Healthcare industry leaders gathered to "reimagine health" amid the...