Thursday, July 26, 2018. Site visit at St. Thomas River Park yesterday where James Turton...
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EDUCATING K-12 EDUCATION SYSTEMS ON CRISIS COMMUNICATION
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ENHANCED PATIENT EXPERIENCE WITH THE REAL TIME HEALTH SYSTEM
Patient Experience is the cross section between patient satisfaction and patient safety. The role of managing the overall experience falls to everyone in the C suite and is a true result of the organizations culture. Hospitals are...
Importance of collecting and analyzing bedside data for hospitals
Is it imperative to collect and analyze bedside data? Collecting bedside data allows management to make real-time care decisions for their patients as opposed to retrospectively correcting a problem for future patients. We live in such a data driven world that there will always be a continual need for improvement, especially in the patient care...
Best devices to help hospitals boost their HCAHPS scores
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) surveys provide a data collection methodology for measuring patients' perspectives on hospital care. HCAHPS scores are a direct correlation to how much Medicare and Medicaid will reimburse hospitals. Even though this is a troublesome thought to hospitals that rely heavily...
How long is too long? Wait times across the hospital system.
We want it, and we want it now. As Americans, technological advances have made us a pretty impatient group as a whole - constantly seeking better, faster processes to improve wait time. These processes are most likely used to improve daily functions like: email, text message, video and music streaming. If these activities were ever delayed, we...
What is Meaningful Use?
The term “meaningful use” has been dominating the healthcare landscape in recent years. Its impact is resonating in nearly every trending topic in healthcare from the integration of analytical data, to improved population health, coordination of care, improved safety, and patient engagement. That’s because its rules, known as meaningful use...
How to Improve Patient Engagement
Successful patient engagement strategies use the right combination of innovative technology and organizational services. Hospitals find most success when they integrate solutions that operate efficiently with other systems already established in their facilities, such as electronic health records (EHR), workflow technology, and nurse call...
How to Fight Hospital Acquired-Infections
Hospital-acquired infections continue to be a source of great medical and economical strain for clinics and facilities across the country. Hospital-acquired infections, or HAIs, are infections that patients acquire...
What is Interoperability?
Interoperability has been a growing buzzword in healthcare in recent years, but what it means and how it works for clinical organizations is still relatively unknown.
Interoperability refers to the ability of two or more...
Integrating Mass Notification Systems
What is a Mass Notification System (MNS)
A mass notification system is an essential tool used to quickly and efficiently deliver emergency notifications to a large subset of people. They are becoming increasingly important systems for school, hospital, and multi-site business campus facility managers to warn individuals...
How Can Technology Improve Your HCAHPS Scores
Every hospital’s top priority is patient satisfaction, and the leaps in healthcare technology are helping improve the way patients and caregivers interact. Advancements in integrated solutions are bridging the gap between patient and physician which is boosting productivity, increasing efficiency, and improving HCAHPS scores across the board....
Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLS)
The use of real-time locating systems, or RTLS, in healthcare is on the rise. However, there is still a lot of misconception about what the technology does, and how it can help healthcare professionals improve their patient care. We will help shed some light on some of the great benefits of RTLS so your facility can make the best use of these...
School Access Control Systems
There is nothing more important than the safety of our students and teachers within the confines of our schools – and there is no better way of ensuring this safety than a well integrated access control system that keeps campuses protected from outside threats. There is a fine balance between maintaining a welcoming learning environment for our...