Blog posts tagged with client success stories

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  Clients speak: Why they invest in revenue cycle management solutions

  Jennifer Bolduc MD

  June 06, 2017

  A recent analyst report expects that revenue cycle management solutions will continue to expand among small physician practices. Clients share their most compelling reasons about the value they find in this technology. Read more…

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  Behind-the-scenes look at a clinical quality dashboard

  Robert Leviton MD

  May 16, 2017

  Some large organizations are wrestling with the abundance of quality data. Northwell Health developed an elegant Clinical Snapshot dashboard to support clinicians with the tools they need. Read more…

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  Finding better ways to notify providers about patient events

  Erik Kins

  April 11, 2017

  The variability of the EHR capabilities makes it more complex for large health systems to design a cohesive notification system. Using open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Northwell Health designed a solution that enables clinicians to see patient event notifications within their electronic health record (EHR) workflow, which enables better care coordination. Read more…

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  Will you sink or swim with post-acute documentation?

  Salman Naqvi MD MPH

  April 06, 2017

  Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals (Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A.) recognizes that a solid documentation system can buoy both patient access to care and reimbursements. The organization developed the first rehabilitation content solution in the United States, and it has been so successful, it is now available to other Allscripts clients as Sunrise Rehabilitation. Read more…

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  First, do no harm: How one hospital is eliminating patient harm

  Geoff Caplea MD

  March 16, 2017

  In health care, our promise is to "first, do no harm." Since Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report about medical errors in 1999, significant focus has been placed on safety throughout the healthcare system not to simply reduce harm, but to eliminate it altogether. Featured in a new case study, Washington Health System (Washington, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) has decreased its total patient harm by 25% over the past six years by monitoring harm and implementing process improvements to eliminate it. Read more…

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  6 healthcare IT innovations in the UK

  Rachel Dunscombe

  February 22, 2017

  Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (Salford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom) has always been on a mission to become the safest NHS organisation in England. In a fast-paced industry like health care, the only way to succeed is to continuously innovate. As part of Allscripts connected community of health, I’d like to share some of the initiatives we’re launching or exploring in the UK: Read more…

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  7 challenges when organizations own patient data

  Kim South RN

  February 13, 2017

  As the healthcare industry shifts to a new mindset – that patients instead of organizations should own their data – we look for examples of this approach in practice. Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) believes patients should have greater responsibility for their own electronic health record (EHR) information, and now enables patients to modify their own records. Read more…

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  First “vanguard” site in UK delivering integrated care

  Rachel Dunscombe

  February 09, 2017

  As government in the UK moves social care nearer to health care provision our National Health Service (NHS) trusts are looking at broader programs and ways to deliver holistic interventions for patients. Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (Salford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom) is part of a local partnership, Salford Together, which is bringing together health care, home care, mental health and community nursing, hospital, and social services into a new, unified model of care. Read more…

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  Improving pneumococcal vaccination rates

  Jennifer Bolduc MD

  February 07, 2017

  With the number of clinical quality measures required today, there is an abundance of data. But what should we do with all of this information? I ran across a recent example of a data-driven initiative that was both simple and effective. It’s a collaborative health-improvement model (funded by a grant from Pfizer), and it focused on increasing pneumococcal vaccination rates. And it worked beautifully. Read more…

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  Israel: A case study in national connectivity for better health

  Martha Thorne

  February 02, 2017

  The desire to aggregate patient information from disparate sources, do it quickly and present it in a way that made sense to caregivers gave rise to the Ofek Network, powered by the Allscripts dbMotion™ Solution, across Clalit Health Services (Tel Aviv, Israel). Featured in a new case study, this health network connects multiple organizations and disparate systems that serve Israel’s 8.3 million residents. Read more…

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