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Corporate Partners in This Issue
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At Aramark, we recognize the goal of every hospital is to create and promote a culture that values the patient experience. With a rigorous focus on developing best practices to boost HCAHPS scores, understanding patients’ expectations during their stay, and adopting innovative technologies and programs to improve the bottom line, our mission is to drive value, productivity and quality assurance at your hospital. These resources will help ensure your healthcare system is operating at the highest efficiency levels while providing a superior patient experience:
- Environmental Services: Patients’ answers to HCAHPS surveys are paramount to the financial health of your organization. Learn how to create a best-in-class environmental services program and receive consistently high marks.
- Patient Dining: People are dining differently than they did five years ago and their expectations do not wane during a hospital stay. Don’t let outdated insights about what patients want from their healthcare dining experience affect your satisfaction scores. Discover what hospital patients want in this eye-opening infographic.
- Clinical Engineering: A growing number of healthcare systems are moving from in-house clinical engineering departments to partnering with experienced external clinical engineering service providers. Explore the ways an outsourced clinical engineering partner can impact your healthcare system in five distinct areas, resulting in 15 to 17 percent savings.
Aramark is proud to have hosted the ACHE Philadelphia Cluster Oct. 22–25. Aramark provided a complimentary lecture, including an objective analysis of the next era of healthcare reform, where attendees earned ACHE Qualified Education credit. It also hosted networking receptions featuring Aramark recipes for Cluster registrants and local ACHE members on Monday, Oct. 22, and Wednesday, Oct. 24.
HIMSS Analytics conducted research on behalf of BD Medical to understand the state of the medication management market and identify the challenges that exist within it. The 2017 Medication Management and Safety Survey found that more than 75 percent of physicians, nurses and pharmacists surveyed described the medication management process as "flawed," "fragmented," "disjointed" and "primitive." Additional results revealed:
- Nearly half of healthcare professionals surveyed cited better integration with EHRs as an opportunity for improvement.
- More than 70 percent of organizations surveyed see the value in moving to a single vendor for medication management.
- Over 25 percent of clinicians polled stated that data from medication management devices do not integrate well with EHRs at their facilities.
"BD is partnering with IT industry leaders and collaborating with customers to help address these evolving medication management challenges," says Ranjeet Banerjee, worldwide president, Medication Management Solutions, BD. "By leveraging these partnerships, we will improve interoperability across the medication management process, enhance cybersecurity and develop advanced analytics to drive sustained customer outcomes."
The BD HealthSight™ platform for enterprise medication management supports health systems as they address these challenges by helping to create a seamless ecosystem between the BD Pyxis™ and BD Alaris™ portfolios from pharmacy to bedside—with the goal of improving efficiency, reducing waste and enabling healthcare workers to spend more time on patient care.
To learn more about the HIMSS Analytics/BD study, watch the on-demand webinar.
Cardinal Health
How can hospital leaders deliver the best patient care while keeping costs down? Learn about the emerging care delivery model of community paramedicine through this video tutorial on Cardinal Health’s Essential Insights, an online publication covering the latest industry trends and topics for healthcare leaders. Click here to watch.
Cerner Corporation
Leveraging Technology to Improve Rural Health Outcomes in the Now and Next
Rural healthcare organizations face a unique set of challenges as they operate in an unstable environment year to year. It is all too common for these hospitals to lose funding annually and still face the expectation of meeting new demands or exceeding previous performance with fewer resources.
In this blog post, Mitchell Clark, senior vice president of Cerner’s Community Works organization, shares near- and long-term strategies to support rural healthcare organizations in addressing the challenges they face.
Cerner Corporation
Change Healthcare
We know your organization has several options when it comes to handling your revenue cycle functions. One option is to outsource part—or all—of your revenue cycle, and there are many indications in today’s healthcare climate that it may be time to do so. Some are clear cut; others may be less obvious.
- Download this eBook to learn the five signs you should look for to improve your organization’s financial outcomes and patient satisfaction rankings.
- Discover how to offset challenging self-pay patient account issues by improving collection and communication at all three stages of patient contact: pre-service, point-of-service and post-service.
- Learn more about how Change Healthcare can help you increase revenue and improve efficiency with our end-to-end hospital revenue cycle management solutions.
IBM Watson Health™
In this on-demand webinar replay, Shery Tiemeyer, director of patient services, and Susan Zabor, vice president of clinical services, Schneck Medical Center, share how they established a multidisciplinary team to improve care processes at their organization. As a result of the team’s work, the number of unplanned chronic obstructive pulmonary disease readmissions decreased by 80 percent. Find out what they did to achieve these results.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to use data to focus improvement efforts
- How to drive improvement implementation based on data
- How to attain and sustain positive results based on data
- Most importantly, how to improve the patient-centric approach to the continuum of care by stretching the boundaries of the organization into expanded community partnerships
Optum
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the latest buzzwords in healthcare. Many industry leaders, however, are greeting it with skepticism. When many of today’s challenges stem from the lack of connected data and processes, it’s easy to see why individuals doubt the value of emerging technology in healthcare.
However, AI is already beginning to transform the way healthcare organizations operate. Today, AI is simplifying repetitive tasks, personalizing the patient experience and advancing predictive medicine. But its value doesn’t end there. During a popular session at the 2018 SXSW Conference, Mark Morsch, vice president of technology at Optum, addressed the hype around AI, including what the technologies are and where they show the greatest potential in healthcare. Explore more in a new infographic that helps healthcare stakeholders define AI, understand how it works in healthcare and see through the hype to its potential to improve future performance.
OptumIQ™ supports practical applications of AI that address the real problems in healthcare. That’s how AI provides a return on investment not by taking the place of humans, but by efficiently serving up the data all healthcare professionals need to make decisions, take action and work at their highest level of certification.
Roche Diagnostics
Antimicrobial resistance is a significant worldwide public health concern, and it is critical that healthcare organizations focus on its causes and employ prevention measures. Many healthcare institutions are now implementing antibiotic stewardship programs to address this threat.
Leading governing and reimbursement bodies, including The Joint Commission, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have developed guidelines and mandates to foster standards and best practices for ASPs.
The Value of a Successful ASP
Implementing and maintaining a successful antibiotic stewardship program may benefit your organization and the patients you serve in the following ways:
- Improved patient outcomes
- Reduced length-of-stay and readmissions
- Reduced unnecessary use of antibiotics
- Reduced adverse effects associated with antibiotic use and resistance
- Reduced antimicrobial costs from antibiotic misuse
- Improved cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery
Diagnostics Are Key to Success
Diagnostics play an essential role in a robust ASP by enabling timely, accurate diagnoses; supporting effective treatment decisions and monitoring and leading to appropriate use of antibiotics. Using diagnostic testing as a key strategy in your ASP helps improve patient care and minimizes the financial burden on your organization. View this webinar to learn more.
As a leader in diagnostics, Roche is committed to antibiotic stewardship and driving awareness of its importance. We’re continually investing in innovative solutions, education and more to support ASPs and to help healthcare institutions combat antimicrobial resistance. Access more information and helpful resources here.
Roche Diagnostics
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