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Since the new discharge platform was introduced at Bon Secours Charity Hospital, it has cut the amount of time case managers need to prepare from a daily average of 35 minutes to eight.

Philips Wellcentive’s Business Leader Niki Buchanan also gives tips for women working in the health IT industry.

Nine councils in the UK have been awarded a share of up £700,000 to design and deploy digital innovations for social care through a project led by the Local Government Association (LGA), commissioned by NHS Digital.

Douglas Gentile, Chief Medical Information Officer at the University of Vermont Health Network, discusses how lessons learned from past failures helped his organization figure out four critical components needed for successful data governance.

Further, 38 percent of online appointments are booked after hours, which helps with both patient retention and new patient acquisition.

The Reaction Data research shows the vendor holds 81 percent market share and details the runners up along with other findings.

Expanding from hospital assessments, the patient safety group will publish a national report by this time next year, with data on individual ASCs available by 2020.

Penn Medicine is pursuing a new initiative it says will innovate electronic health records for 21st Century medicine.

This case study shows how Hardin Memorial Hospital lowered that rate from 5.6 to 2.2 percent – and improved its HCAHPS scores thanks to better communication between doctors and patients.

While many readers are optimistic that healthcare will make progress on consumerism in one to three years, others said it will take between five and seven to actually happen.