Patient Matching and the Impact on the Immunization Community
Patient matching is the accurate identification and linking of a patient's data within and across health systems in order to deliver a detailed view of the patient's healthcare record.
Applying RTLS Technology to Improve Nurse Efficiency and Patient Care
Providing better patient care is a national imperative in the United States, and nurses play a critical role in this equation.
Addressing clinician burnout with operational and technology focused initiatives
It’s important to not only learn from your own experiences but to examine how others work through staff burnout and what they find as effective solutions.
Using AI and Collaborative Workflows to Predict and Prevent Clinical Deterioration
Stanford Medicine embarked on a mission to bridge the gap in utilizing machine-learning (ML) models for enhancing care delivery, focusing on three fundamental challenges within the health system.
Antimicrobial Stewardship: Longitudinal Outcomes of Performance Improvement
The implementation of the AMS program required a comprehensive approach, involving community support and education.
Mackenzie Health’s Successful COVID-19 Response
Review a strategic response to the pandemic, marked by collaboration, clinical excellence, and advanced digital health tools, which led to the conversion of their new hospital site into a COVID-19 relief facility.
Multimodal Pain Management: A Successful Approach to System Initiatives by Targeting Different Aspects of Opioid Reduction
Intermountain Health enacted opioid stewardship measures in 2018, focusing on reducing opioid prescriptions, educating caregivers, standardizing pain management techniques, and utilizing data-driven tools for sustained practice changes.
Use of AI-enhanced data analysis to identify persons at risk of chronic kidney disease, assist in delivery of kidney-protective therapeutics and reduce hospitalizations
Intermountain Health Kidney Services (IKS) is a collaborative effort between Intermountain Health and MDClone to improve care for individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Implementation of a Pulmonary Disease Navigator Program for 30-day Chronic Lung Disease Readmission Reduction
This case study describes a COPD playbook driven by a multi-disciplinary team, integrating tools like a COPD dashboard and evidence-based protocols in the electronic medical record.
Unlocking Large Language Models in Healthcare: Understanding their prowess, identify prospects and the prudence needed in their use
Get a better understanding of the technical evolution of generative AI and the benefits, particularly large language models.
Reducing Medication Errors by Revamping mCDS Alerting: The Goldilocks Principle
Northern Light Health began a new initiative to enhance patient safety by reducing the degree of alert fatigue, with the expectation that removal of nuisance alerting would positively impact not just the provider EHR experience, but also reduce the overall incidence of medication errors systemwid...
Comprehensive and Standardized Cardiovascular Care Leads to Decreased Readmissions
On June 15, 2020, Northern Light Health went live with a 30-day readmission prevention risk predictor. The predictor assists the care team in identifying patients who are at risk for readmission and to mitigate those risks through coordinated discharge and transition planning. The solution integr...