Healthcare is interdisciplinary. Care teams are frequently made up of physicians, nurses, physician’s assistants, pharmacists, therapists, social workers, and more. However, many pharmacists are not thought of as part of the care team, even though they are the most...
In 2020 there were 46 million U.S. residents - 14% of the U.S. population - living in rural areas. While healthcare across the country could be improved, rural healthcare faces some unique and exacerbated challenges. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, it was...
The real-time collaboration tool will make it easier for telemedicine clinicians to provide care in areas with clinician shortages Philadelphia, PA (August 9, 2022) ‒ CareAlign, a care orchestration platform, has partnered with telemedicine provider RemoteMDER to...
EHRs are a divisive topic. Some clinicians hate EHRs and feel like they are causing burnout. Patients may feel like EHRs take away from the patient-provider relationship. Advocates for EHR believe they are a necessary step to pushing healthcare in the 21st century and...
Imagine the different ways you use your phone on a morning off of work. Your alarm wakes you up so you can meet a friend. While getting ready, you SnapChat a funny picture of your cat to your sister. You get a notification from your calendar app that you have a...
Healthcare is trying to move forward; however, clinicians are leaving medicine from stress and burnout, and health systems aren’t making as much money as they need to rebound from the deficits of the past few years. How can organizations push towards better healthcare...
You’ve probably heard it by now: clinician burnout is at crisis levels, severely impacting clinicians’ mental health and causing many to leave healthcare. There are lots of shocking numbers around burnout. A 2021 survey found that 61% of physicians reported burnout....
In a previous blog post, we discussed CMS’ proposal that would add three measures to the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program for Fiscal Year 2023 to address health equity. Two of the measures focus on screening and identifying individual social needs that...
CMS has proposed adding three measures to the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program for Fiscal Year 2023 to address health equity. Two of the measures focus on screening and identifying individual social needs that impact health, in an effort to better serve...