“I didn’t know what to do, so I came back,” said my in-the-dark patient. He was calling me from the emergency department (ED), 5 days after I had discharged him from the hospital for an abdominal ...

The Pennsylvania health system has eliminated redundant processes and reduced the time and number of people involved in a discharge while boosting patient satisfaction scores. Patient discharge can be ...

Processes between the patient access and patient intake departments are often disparate — as are differing technology solutions that only serve one group well. Patients, however, don’t distinguish ...

(), a leading healthcare data management service company that transforms complex data integration issues into clinical and operational workflow improvements, today announced it has partnered with , ...

Patient intake, and the associated manual tasks that come upfront before a medical visit, represents a key component of a health system's operational efficiency and clinical quality. As a result, some ...

Nurses feel "empowered" with an integrated patient discharge analytics technology that leverages artificial intelligence to analyze administrative tasks, such as discharge coordination, test ordering ...

Integrating an elderly patient’s informal caregivers — family members, friends, partners, neighbors and other loved ones — into the discharge process may potentially reduce the patient’s likelihood of ...

The intricate web of communications that support patient flow from admission to discharge play a critical role in optimizing patient throughput and ensuring the best, timely delivery of patient care.

Every day, millions of people are discharged after extended hospital stays, but matching these patients with appropriate care facilities can be arduous, often reliant on months-old, inaccurate data.

The business of caring is a stressful one. Within the hospital, clinicians face an ever-increasing amount of pressure to do more with less, with our work held accountable to metrics and time pressures ...

If you’ve ever been discharged from a hospital or helped a loved one through it, you know how overwhelming it can be. One moment, you’re in a hospital bed, and the next, you’re handed a pile of ...

Healthcare has a lot of friction, especially within clinical workflow and patient intake. Tech startup founder Aniq Rahman recognized an opportunity to use technology to tackle these challenges. His ...