1. Ask every department to participate in promoting efficiency. Patient flow can be disrupted when separate departments and providers do not talk about the hold-ups in each area, Dr. Noonan says. “You ...

Medical professionals don’t pursue careers in healthcare out of a love of data entry, but it’s an inescapable daily reality for most, taking time away from focused care and consultations with patients ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. At HIMSS 2023, we saw lots of technologies aimed at improving the patient experience on ...

Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital’s Safe Patient Flow Steering Committee was able to implement several process changes at the hospital for the 2009 fiscal year that improved patient flow, resolved adult ...

Traditionally, health systems have operated and behaved as unified entities in name only, with different hospitals and facilities within the same system working off of their own sets of key ...

The healthcare industry is grappling with the challenge of balancing patient care with administrative duties, such as documenting crucial patient information and composing referral letters, all of ...

Penn Medicine’s Nudge Unit is launching several new pilot projects as a part of its approach to improving patient care. Credit: Mehak Dhaliwal The Penn Medicine Nudge Unit — a behavioral design team ...

Leamington’s Erie Shores HealthCare is facing a $4.35 million budget deficit which its administration attributes to running unfunded programs to improve patient flow. “We are in a unique position,” ...