Category Archives: Clinical Insights

Using technology to improve the quality of the patient experience Improving an organization’s patient experience requires a thorough understanding of the care that is being delivered. To this end, healthcare systems are constantly evolving to gather more data and are tracking clinical and financial information over time and across settings, to help better understand the [...]

Nurse burnout: What impact can technology have? Hospitals and health care leaders face a multitude of challenges these days, including staffing and retention of nurses and other care team members. Extended work hours, sleep deprivation, high-stress work environments, lack of support, and emotional strain from patient care can lead to nurse burnout. And with stretched [...]

Purposeful patient rounding benefits patients and care team Hospital patients rely on their care team members to ensure they recover as soon as possible. One variable that can positively impact a patient’s hospital journey to discharge is the inclusion of decisive or purposeful rounding in their care plan. To be purposeful, this management practice must [...]

Closed-loop Communication: An Essential Health Care Tactic Effective communication is essential in any business, but especially so in healthcare where patient safety is at stake. Healthcare environments can be unpredictable, complicated, and stressful. Patient circumstances change frequently and unexpectedly. The unpredictability and urgency that occurs when caring for patients can lead to unplanned communication or [...]

Nurse-to-Nurse: The Benefits of Good Communication Solid communication plays a vital role throughout a patient’s entire healthcare experience, and a large portion of the accountability for good communication lies with the nursing staff, given the constant contact they have with patients and families. But effective communication extends beyond nurse-patient interactions and involves the entire patient [...]

Meaningful changes in healthcare delivery require actionable data Today’s technology allows us to capture more patient monitoring data from more data points than ever before and make that data available on remote and handheld devices. The real challenge is what to do with all that data. Hospitals are increasingly driven to leverage their IT investments. We [...]

Right Patient, Right Chart The mechanics of patient throughput provides many places for failure. Ensuring that the right data is associated with the right patient is critically important because a patient’s chart is the foundation for treatments, including medications, therapies, and surgery. But considering the number of interactions that occur during a single patient visit [...]

The significance of measuring the electrical function of the heart One person dies every 36 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease. While preventing cardiac events through decreasing modifiable risk factors is a top priority, it is critical to offer the best care possible to those patients and families that are experiencing an acute [...]

Nurse-to-Nurse: Creating a culture of shared governance Shared governance in the hospital setting is critical when making decisions that affect both clinical team members and patients. The model is a best practice for promoting partnership and collaboration between nurses and other healthcare professionals for decision making within the professional environment. Shared governance also provides bedside [...]

Meaningful changes require actionable data Today’s technology allows us to capture more patient monitoring data from more data points than ever before and make that data available on remote and handheld devices. The real challenge is what to do with all that data. Hospitals are increasingly driven to leverage their IT investments. We answer this challenge [...]