The Pennsylvania health system has eliminated redundant processes and reduced the time and number of people involved in a discharge while boosting patient satisfaction scores. Patient discharge can be ...

Improving efficiency is complex and requires a multimodal approach. Health information systems, patient feedback, and multidisciplinary teams are components that can improve clinical processes.

Healthcare: try to name a sector in which the importance of process excellence is higher. You’ll struggle. Every decision, every action, every allocation of personnel or resources has a direct impact ...

The 2025 update is the result of a comprehensive two-year effort by a workgroup composed of representatives from 14 national pharmacy organizations. In June 2023, JCPP convened the Patient Care ...

A new post on Harvard Business Review‘s blog by a team from Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital sheds light on how the hospital “pulled the Andon Cord” — altered all administrative levels to the ...

The digital age continues to revolutionize how we approach medical practices and patient care. In trying to streamline administrative tasks, ...

There is a big push both from the private market and federal policymakers to improve interoperability and open up access to health data through smartphone apps and other digital tools. But on the ...

Integrating an elderly patient’s informal caregivers — family members, friends, partners, neighbors and other loved ones — into the discharge process may potentially reduce the patient’s likelihood of ...

Patient intake, and the associated manual tasks that come upfront before a medical visit, represents a key component of a health system's operational efficiency and clinical quality. As a result, some ...

STRAIN ON STAFFING AT HOSPITALS, ENOUGH TO CAUSE BURNOUT EVEN AMONG VETERAN NURSES. TONIGHT, WE’RE GETTING OUR FIRST LOOK AT A NEW PROGRAM DESIGNED TO CHANGE THAT AT SOME OF OMAHA’S BIGGEST HOSPITALS.

CAR-T therapy is a major advance in cancer care, but high costs and centralized global manufacturing limit access.