Bill Siwicki

The time it takes to take a test has been reduced from 30 minutes to 15 minutes, freeing up technicians to do other clinical work.

Patients receive needed interventions quicker, resulting in better outcomes and higher levels of satisfaction.

Central Island Healthcare now is able to regularly treat common ailments among residents such as hypertension, fever, chest pain and COPD in place, rather than sending patients to an emergency room.

The Center for Rural Health Innovation switched from telehealth carts to portable tech and now treats 26 schools compared with six prior. The implementation offers lessons for rural hospitals and clinics.

The mobile patient engagement system also cut no-shows by half and increased the number of referred patients seen by 25 percent.

A new report looks at nearly 20 vendors and sees that the market for texting tech is changing – as is the way providers are using the tools.

Through the technology, the provider organization also has collected 635 online reviews for its website.

The health system has used evidence-based best practices in clinical decision support tools to reduce non-emergent blood transfusions.

The clinically integrated network, with 10 payer feeds, more than 40 practice billing systems and around 20 EHR feeds across two large health systems, has aggregated data from 1,380 physicians across 185 practice locations.

The EHR’s capabilities also enabled a 15 percent decrease in days in accounts receivable.