Arkenea

JUNE 23, 2025

Think of RAG as having a brilliant medical researcher who can instantly access and synthesize information from your entire healthcare knowledge base like patient records, clinical guidelines, research papers, and treatment protocols to provide precise, contextual answers to complex medical queries.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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EvidenceCare

MARCH 11, 2024

These measures play a fundamental role in hospital management, financial planning, and patient care optimization. By understanding and leveraging GMLOS and ALOS, hospital executives can improve operational efficiency and patient outcomes. It is the simplest and most commonly used metric for evaluating patient stays.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Philips, a longtime major exhibitor at CES, created an entirely new online experience for the CES attendees – a sort of virtual gallery of different exhibits that are accessed from a single point in a “room” with various entry points. George tells us about being discharged home after dealing with heart failure in the hospital.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In June 2021, Montefiore was evaluating performance improvement initiatives to enhance patient experiences and alleviate flow challenges and decided to open a discharge lounge. The idea of a discharge lounge isn’t new, but being assisted by the clinician with whom patients just bonded is.

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Arkenea

MARCH 9, 2025

In recent years, hospital mobile app development has emerged as a critical tool in the healthcare industry, providing patients with convenient and accessible healthcare services. In this blog, we will explore the benefits, development process, hospital mobile app technology trends, challenges, and more.

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Guideway Care

APRIL 9, 2024

While the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey is a significant tool in measuring patient satisfaction, it represents a single aspect of the overall patient experience. This is possible by integrating HCAHPS findings with broader patient experience information.

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Guideway Care

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Transitional care management (TCM) plays a critical role in reducing hospital readmissions by ensuring patients receive proper care and support as they transition from the hospital to home. By focusing on follow-up care, medication management, and patient education, TCM addresses the primary factors leading to readmissions.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

With our HealthConsuming “health is everywhere” ethos, this post updates some of the most impactful recent retail health developments shaping consumers’ health/care touchpoints beyond hospitals, physicians, and health plans. as reported in Becker’s Hospital Review.

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Guideway Care

AUGUST 31, 2023

Multi-visit patients account for more than half of all readmissions in the United States. Readmission costs to Medicare is reported at $26 billion annually, with $17 billion of that amount spent on avoidable hospital intakes and readmissions after discharge, according to data from the Center for Health Information and Analysis.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2019

While patient portals are widely adopted, evidence is that patients largely do not tap into these and when they do, have sub-optimal “consumer” style experiences. Kaufman Hall received input from over 200 executives from academic medical centers, children’s hospitals, community hospitals, and health systems.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2024

.” This post summarizes some key findings on the consumer demand side for staying home, empowered and enabled by various technologies that can support independent aging, living, and medical care as more acute services shift from hospital-to-home.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Medical literacy, such as understanding medical instructions following up procedures, lab tests, and inpatient discharges to the home. On average, U.S. Philips’ SmartSleep or ResMed’s myAir). Financial literacy, especially key to U.S. high deductibles, coinsurance, and out-of-pocket copayments).

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Relias

APRIL 18, 2025

Healthcare workers communicate and connect deeply with their consumers not just patients but their families as well. That means offering the best experience and care is undeniably important. A great example of how impactful this step can be is Childrens Hospital of Orange Countys (CHOC) Emergency Department.

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Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

Such a comprehensive model boosts patient outcomes alongside fortifying the infrastructure around hospital systems and physician services. How Patient Advocacy Influences Bundled Payment Outcomes Incorporating patient advocacy within bundled payment models significantly transforms the landscape of healthcare delivery.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

He presented evidence for the role of self care from various healthcare settings and geographies such as post-hospital discharge care with nurses and handymen in Baltimore, hypertension and self-monitoring in the U.K., Dr. Smith noted there’s a huge reservoir of untapped labor in patients.

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Discharges Hospital Medication Patient Experience 54

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

In the wake of the pandemic and growing consumer preferences, the hospital-to-home movement is gaining traction among health systems. Amidst bullish forecasts for the promise of hospital-to-home discharges, the ability for many patients to make this migration would be a difficult bridge to cross.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

With that in mind, I’ll remind Health Populi readers that the latest Edelman Trust Barometer saw a dramatic drop in trust between American health consumers and hospitals in this year’s 2019 research.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

FYI, Press Ganey, a leading health care patient experience organization, has created an impressive library of resources addressing the pandemic, linked here.]. Pre-COVID-19, the consumer had a trust baseline which Press Ganey shows was further shaped by the person’s experience in the health system. Press Ganey asks.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2022

KaufmanHall, which have been monitoring hospitals’ and physicians’ financial health since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, always have an eye on fiscal issues: in this consumer study, the survey assessed consumers’ approaches to financing the seven personal health management activities polled and shown in the second bar chart.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One is a basic practice that has taken place in every hospital in the country for many years. The other is a more recent technological advance that provides many patient and provider benefits. Supplies are traditionally kept in one control room within the hospital with additional rooms or units available on each floor.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Emergency care Coordination of emergency care helps ensure that patients who come to the emergency department receive timely, appropriate, and high-quality care and are safely and effectively transitioned to the next level of needed care, whether it is inpatient, outpatient, or home-based.

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Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

Oncology nurses work in diverse environments, such as: hospitals cancer centers outpatient clinics doctors offices hospices nursing homes The diversity of work environments allows oncology nurses to provide specialized care tailored to the unique needs of cancer patients in different settings.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Discharge planning is worse than ever. The hospital is breathing down your neck to discharge patients who still need care. That symbolizes the patient experience. Calling an insurance company or hospital or doctor makes you want to kill yourself instead. It is only the rest that has gone to s**t.

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