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Quality Improvement: Eliminating the Silo Effect in Healthcare Organizations

HIT Consultant

The healthcare industry has always been under pressure to find ways to provide consistently improving patient satisfaction and outcomes in the face of a rapidly changing medical and regulatory environment. Conversely, systems designed to produce collaboration can drive meaningful improvements in patient outcomes.

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Unlocking Medical Device Potential: Data Integration Drives Better Patient Outcomes

HIT Consultant

For healthcare organizations, that means a constant barrage of possibilities for new and better technology. Yet, when viewed through the lens of improving patient outcomes, data integration rises to the top of the priority list.

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Epic & Press Ganey Integrate to Streamline Nursing Quality Data

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Press Ganey , a provider of healthcare experience measurement and data analysis, announced a collaboration with Epic to integrate nurse-sensitive indicators (NSIs) and outcomes directly into Press Ganey’s National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators ( NDNQI ). What is the NDNQI?

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

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Healthcare stakeholders are moving away from fee-for-service and towards value-based models to meet the demands of aging and millennial populations while also meeting an ambitious national healthcare agenda. These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care.

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

Cloud Blogs

Healthcare stakeholders are moving away from fee-for-service and towards value-based models to meet the demands of aging and millennial populations while also meeting an ambitious national healthcare agenda. These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care.

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Which organizational factors can reduce pediatric nurse burnout?

Healthcare It News

A new study, led by health policy researchers from Rand Corporation, and funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, surveyed pediatric nurses at an urban children's hospital to assess the factors that may or may not be contributing to feelings of burnout. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Four actions to prepare for Integrated Neighbourhood Teams

Health Care Leader News

The Fuller Report published earlier this year signalled that Primary Care Networks (PCNs) should ‘evolve’ into Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs). Ben Gowland is director and principal consultant at Ockham Healthcare, a think tank and consultancy. What should PCNs and general practice be doing now to prepare for this change?