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. …
Healthcare facilities and hospitals are focused on improving patient outcomes, but achieving these goals often requires carbon-intensive energy sources. Learn how the U.S. healthcare system has started to recognize its harmful impact and how this sector is taking steps to reduce its carbon footprint and protect public health. Understanding the environment impact of healthcare systems…
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 Steve Merritt, Senior Solutions Director Multi-purpose tools are useful things. There’s a reason why the Swiss Army knife has been popular for more than 130 years. It’s simple, compact, easy to use and performs multiple tasks. Contrast that with the average clinician’s digital toolbox crammed with single-purpose tools, multiple devices and incompatible applications and…
By Kristene Erwin, Manager, Client Services The digital transformation of a healthcare system is an amazing thing. Done well, it produces better patient experiences and outcomes, eases the burden on clinicians and staff and allows operations to proceed with fewer interruptions and inefficiencies. When I manage these projects, it’s gratifying to see how deeply all…
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 Daria Rosen | Senior Manager, Client Services Having been in the technology field since the great Y2K non-disaster (remember that?), it’s been a while and for a woman with degrees in business, how I ended up in health care technology is a story that needs telling. It needs telling because in the United States,…
