As technology rapidly evolves, healthcare delivery organizations face a common challenge: a cluttered and complex portfolio of disparate imaging systems encompassing a broad range of services. Recognizing that these imaging applications and systems don’t work well together and lack EMR integration, many organizations are exploring the benefits of application rationalization to develop an enterprise imaging…
Virtual nursing is not new, but its potential for transforming the delivery of healthcare is just beginning. To learn more about today’s most impactful applications, we spoke with Jon Hunt, Director, Client Services at Pixel Health, who shared his insights on the current state of virtual nursing and how it will continue to grow. …
Automation, Amazon and making the job easier for the frontline clinical workforce are going to make healthcare news in 2023, according to Pixel Health Chief Revenue Officer Barbara Casey. Casey was a guest on a new episode of the Healthcare Rap podcast in which she shared her predictions for next year. With a background in…
By Patrick Allen, Managing Director, Strategy and Transformation Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part blog post on technology and workflow. Read Part 1 here. In the first part of this blog post, I discussed how healthcare systems often make the mistake of adopting new digital technology without considering their desired workflows. …
By Patrick Allen, Managing Director, Strategy and Transformation The lure of new healthcare technology can be hard to resist. It’s shiny and state of the art and promises to solve all your problems. It whispers, buy me and your troubles will disappear. Unfortunately, it often doesn’t work that way. We see clients all the time…
by Neil Kudler, CMO When folks ask me what I do these days, I always say that I’m a physician – but that’s not exactly true. After 15 years of clinical practice, I left primary care internal medicine 15 years ago with hopes of improving care delivery as a physician administrator. For me, this career…
When a consultant is being a true partner to a client, they are like a sponge absorbing everything within the organization’s vicinity — from the people and the culture to the inner workings, technology, and processes. Working with the right HIT consulting partners can facilitate the selection of technology, simplify the process of using it,…
by Jennifer Unsworth | Senior Manager, Client Services According to LinkedIn, nursing is the fifth-most in-demand job in the country and the American Nurses Association reported that more RN jobs would be available than any other job in the US in 2022. So why is the country amid a nursing staff crisis? A new report…
by Barbara Casey, CRO A study came out a while back showing that those group brainstorming sessions in front of the whiteboard weren’t always the best way to encourage new ideas. According to the study, peer pressure, long a relic of high school classrooms, was still abundant in the professional ranks. People simply feared speaking…
by Kathleen Harmon, MS, RN Managing the complexity of implementing a clinical communication mobility program can be a daunting challenge. There is no one-size-fits-all technology that is right for every care delivery unit and clinical workflow, nor is there one single vendor who can address the full spectrum of clinical communication and collaboration needs –…
