HIMSS24: How Health Systems Are Changing to Enhance the Staff Experience teta.alim_beOd Thu, 03/14/2024 - 12:31 Healthcare worker burnout remains a critical issue in the industry amid ongoing concerns over current and projected shortages and growing patient expectations. The U.S. surgeon general’s office issued an advisory in 2022 on the burnout crisis, highlighting statistics such as nurses spending 41 percent of their time on the electronic health record and documentation, and physicians spending two hours on the EHR and other administrative tasks for every hour of direct patient care. And ..read more

How Modern HVAC Systems Support Smart Hospital Transformations mol.doak_epb0 Wed, 02/21/2024 - 12:58 Heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems use a lot of energy. They account for as much as 44 percent of a commercial building’s total energy consumption, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. It’s clear why healthcare organizations such as Mercy are automating their HVAC systems to make them more energy efficient. The technology allows Mercy’s facilities department to centrally manage temperature and climate conditions in every room, resulting in millions of dollars in energy sa ..read more

How Clinical Collaboration Has Evolved Over the Years and Why It’s Important Now jordan.scott_xWTB Mon, 11/22/2021 - 09:09 Communication allows information to be shared between people. This is especially important in healthcare where that information could mean the difference between life and death. Technology such as telephones and public address systems were used to communicate vital information to clinicians before the advent of pagers in the 1950s made immediate communication possible. Hospitals use simulcast networks to broadcast messages to modern pagers, which can be more reliable than ..read more

5 Tech Trends Changing the Field of Nursing andrew.steger_ofuW Thu, 07/02/2020 - 13:00 Editor’s note: This content series, featured in your Insider dashboard, will be rolled out over the coming weeks to offer advice on driving collaboration between IT teams and clinical staff. (If you’re not already an Insider, sign up for free here.) The associated articles explore why nurses should be included in the decision-making process for purchasing new equipment and how to develop this relationship as part of your IT strategy. Technology is enhancing the field of nursing in many ways by mak ..read more

How Technology Integration Supports Precision Medicine jordan.scott_xWTB Fri, 02/10/2023 - 14:04 As patients expect more tailored approaches to care delivery, providers are moving away from one-size-fits-all solutions and toward personalized medicine, or precision medicine, which analyzes aspects of a person’s genes, environment and lifestyle to find the right treatments. The goal of precision medicine is “optimizing the patient’s quality of life and chances of survival by getting the treatment plan right from the get-go,” says Jennifer Eaton, research director for value-based healthcare digi ..read more

Managing Healthcare Supply Chains With Technology jordan.scott_xWTB Wed, 11/16/2022 - 13:29 It’s a high-pressure, ­high-stakes job, but it’s a perfect fit for Geoff Gates. Cleveland Clinic’s senior director of technology for supply chain and support serv­ices heads a team that’s responsible for everything from the procure-to-pay process to supply chain technology and innovation. Gates says his team collaborates closely with the IT department “to make sure that all our systems speak to each other in the right way and that transactions are flowing seamlessly across the organization.” Most of th ..read more

4 Ways Healthcare Is Being Transformed by the Cloud andrew.steger_ofuW Fri, 12/20/2019 - 09:53 Healthcare is increasingly turning to the cloud. According to research from Global Market Insights, the North American healthcare cloud-computing market surpassed $8.5 billion in 2018, and the global market could exceed $55 billion by 2025. That doesn’t mean there hasn’t been turbulence along the way, particularly when it comes to the public cloud. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index 2019, based on a survey of 2,650 IT decision-makers in a variety of industries across the world, found that 73 percent ..read more

The Rise of the Virtual Nurse jordan.scott_xWTB Thu, 09/01/2022 - 13:07 Healthcare organizations across the U.S. are under tremendous pressure as the growing need for nurses outpaces a shrinking workforce. There have been unprecedented challenges from the large, aging baby boomer population. Nurses are also getting older, with a median age of 52 — 4.7 million are projected to retire by 2030. “None of us are going to have the complement of nurses that we would like to have moving forward, so we have to get creative with the way that we provide care,” says Jennifer Ball, director of virtual car ..read more

Children’s Hospitals Find Space to Grow Through the Cloud jordan.scott_xWTB Wed, 08/31/2022 - 12:49 Computer scientists are familiar with Moore’s law, which refers to the observation that computer processing power doubles roughly every two years. To most people, that probably seems like an impressive rate of technological expansion. But ask Mihailo Kaplarevic for his thoughts on the subject and he tends to view it from a different perspective. “Moore’s law is rather slow-paced compared with the exponential growth in data we’ve been seeing,” says Kaplarevic, chief research information officer ..read more

Roundtable: How CNIOs Influence Tech Strategies andrew.steger_ofuW Fri, 08/07/2020 - 11:08 Editor’s note: This content series, featured in your Insider dashboard, will be rolled out over the coming weeks to offer advice on driving collaboration between IT teams and clinical staff. (If you’re not already an Insider, sign up for free here.) The associated articles explore why nurses should be included in the decision-making process for purchasing new equipment and how to develop this relationship as part of your IT strategy. More nurses are joining the growing field of nursing informa ..read more