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Arm Your Frontline with Tools to Monitor, Diagnose, Manage, Treat, and Prevent the Spread of COVID-19
Arm Your Frontline with Tools to Monitor, Diagnose, Manage, Treat, and Prevent the Spread of COVID-19
Proactively communicating with patients and the extended health community is now an absolutely essential part of business for healthcare organizations of all sizes. Surveys have indicated that 3 out of 4 consumers today will consider switching providers based on a single negative experience. In the midst of COVID-19 uncertainty, changing regulations, protocols, and financial circumstances, people need to know what to expect now more than ever before. What follows is a list of what should be considered essential business for health entities seeking to service, retain, and improve relations with patients in a greater capacity.
It’s no secret the financial wellbeing of healthcare entities has plummeted with decreased patient service revenue amidst COVID-19.
As 2021 is now underway, here’s what you can expect from healthcare-centric revenue cycle projects. Budgets and spending may continue to get trimmed throughout the year to offset the financial difficulties and lower margins COVID has brought, but IT and RCM technology projects will be mostly untouched, and may even get bumped-up in priority.
“You can’t over-communicate.”
It’s a saying many physicians and IT leaders are familiar with and, for many years, it held true. But in today’s world, where data is being collected from all types of devices, that’s no longer the case. “The reality is, you absolutely can over-communicate, and drive people crazy so that they don’t see anything,” said Becky Fox, CNIO at Atrium Health, during a recent panel discussion.
At Monument Health, a large, integrated health system serving 14 rural and urban communities across western South Dakota and eastern Wyoming, the ability to close gaps in care depends on the availability of data at the point of care.
Healthcare organizations have tools available on the cloud to solve the toughest healthcare processes, and more tools are introduced every day. It all comes down to envisioning a better process and identifying the data needed at what point in the process to make your workflow intuitive – both on screen and to the clinicians and patients.
There is a burning need for blockchain in pharma. Today, large pharmaceutical companies are betting on blockchain to help accelerate drug development and discovery, better understand how certain chemicals affect specific demographics, and improve their supply chain, all by securely sharing data in real time.