Bill Siwicki
The rural health system's care teams use remote patient monitoring and their self-developed COVID Action Plan to improve the treatment of patients with the coronavirus.
The Tulsa-based hub provider has also slashed appointment no-shows by integrating Relatient patient-engagement technology with its Epic EHR.
A healthcare cybersecurity expert offers key advice on how best to protect digital assets.
The result? A significant decrease in missed observations, an increase in compliance and audited observations, a decrease in risk incidents, an increase in staff engagement with clients and improved access to patient data by medical staff.
The health system is, for example, reducing acute utilization and ER utilization for both chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease populations.
The provider organization is improving personalized medication management and health outcomes for senior patients on multiple medications.
With a collaborative spirit and a drive to provide the virtual care patients wanted, the health system has grown its program by leaps – it now sees in 10 minutes the number of patients it used to see via telemedicine in a month.
The health system scans each asset and confirms that targeted vulnerabilities have been patched and can be considered as resolved.
Michael Clark discusses the challenges of the past 12 months and describes how health systems can accelerate digital transformation while streamlining processes for EHR, provider documentation, revenue cycle and patient engagement .
Connected Health
"With so many families dealing with depression, higher suicide rates, domestic violence, death of loved ones from COVID-19, unemployment [and] food shortages, we are hoping we made an impact on their lives through telehealth."