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Keys to improving the patient experience, from the experts

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Since the onset of the pandemic, patient experience scores from Press Ganey, a firm with more than 40 years of experience in patient experience, have taken a drastic dive – with much of the data pointing to staffing shortages and other challenges as key indicators of the decline in scores.

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HIMSSCast: Patient experience in 2024: What's next?

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Hospital and health system C-suite executives and health IT leaders know the patient experience is crucial to ongoing success in healthcare. This week's podcast looks at what's on the horizon for the patient experience and seeks to answer that question. The question is: How to continually improve it?

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Epic integrates Qualtrics patients' experience data

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To better support personalized care, Qualtrics patient experience data will be integrated with Epic to flag potential problems or concerns for patients. If a patient reports scheduling frustrations, Qualtrics can flag it in Epic for the right team through the new integration. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Rush Memorial's virtual ICU reduces transfers, boosts patient experience

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"By enabling our care teams to care for more patients post-surgery in the ICU, we have been able to reduce the number of transfers to other facilities. "Also, we have improved our patient experience," she continued. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Innovative Ways to Improve Your Patients’ Digital Experience

Speaker: Prof. Dina Ziadlou, Ph.D., Professor at School of Health Science at Colorado Technical University, USA, Executive Board Member & Chair of Digital Transformation Leadership at International Society for Telemedicine and e-Health, Switzerland

Over the past few years, the healthcare field has undergone a digital revolution. The widespread adoption of innovations like EHR, patient portals, and telemedicine services has changed how both providers and patients interact with healthcare. But in the midst of these changes, has patient engagement been overlooked?

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HIMSSCast: Five steps to a better patient experience

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IDC Research's Research Director, Value-based Healthcare IT Transformation Strategies, Jennifer Eaton had this to say in recent research: "To meet consumer needs and demands, healthcare is using technology more than ever to support meaningful, productive and engaging interactions. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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How AI can improve patient experience and patient engagement

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Hospitals and health systems, especially larger ones, are using AI in myriad new ways – including leveraging it for improved patient experience, and for better patient engagement with the goal of reducing health inequities. How did you originally see AI being a fit for improving the patient experience?