Operational Assessment: The First Step to Long-term Sustainability
Sponsored by
Community Hospital Corporation
September 21, 2022
An operational assessment helps hospitals leverage their strengths and identify innovations to enhance performance and boost the bottom line while setting hospitals toward a better future.
Download now to gain insights about how an in-depth assessment of your hospital operations can help best serve your community in these changing times.
Despite its relatively brief history, the role of the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) has changed a lot in a few short decades. Originally, CMIOs oversaw the implementation and adoption of the electronic health record (EHR), but today, they are responsible for more complex, constantly changing initiatives requiring them to wear the hats of clinicians, IT experts, and department liaisons – to name just a few. So, what will this position look like in the future?
In this insight brief, we asked 10 CMIOs from across the country to answer one question: How will the role of the CMIO change in the years ahead, and what challenges or opportunities will this present?
From leveraging artificial intelligence to the importance of resilience to the standardization of workflows, their responses were wide-ranging, insightful, and certain to spark meaningful discussions within health systems and beyond.
Meet Member Needs with Scalable Mental Healthcare That Works
Sponsored by
Amwell
August 31, 2022
For the increasing number of individuals experiencing mental health needs, it is imperative that health plans be able to meet them with low barrier treatment approaches where they are, whether they are diagnosed at a routine primary care appointment, with a specialist monitoring a chronic condition, or as an acute case in the emergency department – and then to follow those individuals as they progress along their journey within a health network’s care continuum.
As health plans revamp their offerings to incorporate mental healthcare in new ways, it will be necessary to:
1. Revisit the traditional approach of covering only in-person therapy – which cannot be scaled to meet current or projected demand.
2. Critically evaluate any treatment offered within the health plan formulary to ensure members derive outcome value and the plan derives a positive return on investment.
3. Deploy mental healthcare that informs, and is informed, by other care team members In doing so, health plans will be better able to meet each member where they are on the spectrum of mental health needs.
Doing so with platforms that integrate seamlessly onto the clinical care continuum also improves access to mental health resources for members by creating new opportunities for clinicians to identify – and then act on – each members’ holistic behavioral health needs. It’s an approach that’s proven to improve member outcomes and reduce overall health costs.
In this White Paper, you will read that more people are seeking mental health support and seeking it in expensive places. This White Paper presents less expensive options that are proven to work.
Strategies to optimize the value of digital technologies and improve organizational resiliency.
Over the past two decades, hospital IT leaders have massively invested in digital technologies. They’ve implemented clinical systems like digital pathology, digital radiology, wireless nurse call, and smart beds. And they’ve deployed communications products such as secure messaging apps, smartphones, and other digital communication devices.
Too many hospitals have invested too much money and effort installing digital systems and received too little value in return. Why? Because to derive optimal value from these data sources, a hospital needs to be “smart.” And digital technology alone isn’t what makes a hospital smart.
In this whitepaper, learn how simplifying communication and workflows can create a better work environment and experience for nurses, physicians, and the extended care team – enabling a better experience for patients and families.
Beyond Burnout: Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in Healthcare
Sponsored by
Medical Solutions
August 22, 2022
Maybe more than any other sector of the economy, healthcare has people at its center and relies completely on those people to care for other people. But what happens when a significant percentage of the caregiving population is suffering?
Nurses and other frontline clinicians absorbed the brunt of the pandemic’s strain and were left with the resulting consequences of that trauma – anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Without adequate support to address these mental health issues, they may struggle to care for patients, leave the profession altogether, or worse, harm themselves.
This paper examines the extent of the mental health crisis among healthcare staff, including:
The extent of the mental health crisis among healthcare staff
The impact it can have on staffing levels and how a worsening labor shortage could impact patient care
Guidance on how health system leaders can support the mental health of their staff to create a more emotionally healthy and resilient workforce
In order to deliver effective, individualized treatment, providers need to start with a comprehensive 360-degree view of every patient that includes clinical and nonclinical data, along with relevant social determinants of health.
Download this e-book to see how you can:
Connect care teams and proactively reach patients at home
Empower every employee to address patient needs efficiently
Personalize patient engagement using data insights