Four Ways Care Team Collaboration Helps Skilled Nursing Facilities

nikkimanuel 01 27, 2023

Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) play a vital role in healthcare. The specialized, round-the-clock care and rehabilitative services SNFs provide ease patient transitions and help them continue recovery after a hospital stay.   However, skilled nursing facilities are often a source of...

chris-lowder 01 04, 2023

Extended treatment times, overburdened healthcare professionals, and fractured communications are just a few challenges facing today’s complex healthcare system. Healthcare professionals are also plagued with long delays in clinical consultations. Accurate, prompt clinical consultations are essential to patient care. The...

nikkimanuel 12 28, 2022

In healthcare, every second counts. The ability to quickly respond to Code Blue situations, ease patient transfers, and seamlessly collaborate across healthcare teams is essential to achieve favorable patient outcomes. But clinical workflows are notoriously complex – often characterized by...

ricardo-estrada 12 16, 2022

Many healthcare organizations use portals to communicate with patients, which are cumbersome and don’t provide the best user experience needed for efficient provider-to-patient communication. Patients prefer having a direct conversation with their physician without having to deal with downloading an...

cheryl 11 09, 2022

This year, the annual National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) Conference took place in St. Louis, MO. The conference theme focused on connection and explored ideas to help attendees reach their patients in truly authentic and meaningful ways....

chris-lowder 11 02, 2022

The healthcare industry suffers from a frightening amount of medical errors due to miscommunication. These preventable errors can lead to poor patient outcomes, avoidable costs, and malpractice cases. In addition, care teams can feel frustrated and burned out when communication...

melody 10 17, 2022

Delivering top-notch care and achieving positive patient outcomes have become more difficult since the pandemic. Increased pressure on care teams has led to strained communication, stress, burnout, and preventable errors due to ineffective communication. With these obstacles, many organizations are...

will-oconnor 10 12, 2022

For years, physicians and hospitals have relied on hard copies, charts, and paper notes to keep track of patients and treatments. Yellow sticky notes, clipboard charts, and whiteboards were often the go-to method for storing and sharing data. But the...

will-oconnor 09 07, 2022

Hospitals and health systems are faced with a growing number of patients, extended hours, and staff shortages. It’s no surprise that the ability to accelerate patient throughput and improve quality care is challenging. According to the Centers for Disease Control,...

will-oconnor 08 22, 2022

The healthcare industry is undergoing a dramatic transformation. More patients in the system and increasingly complex industry regulations make it difficult to manage clinical workflows across medical providers, groups, teams, and hospitals. According to a recent analysis of 23,000 medical...