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.
Monoclonal Antibodies: A Reduction in Hospital Admissions in COVID-19 Therapy Northern Light Health
Northern Light Health began sporadically giving its first doses of monoclonal antibodies (MAb) as a treatment for COVID-19. Teams went through major transitions to create a system-wide approach that included utilization of algorithms to proactively identify high-risk patients, creation of workflo...
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...
Succession Planning for the Healthcare Information Professional
To ensure effective and efficient management of healthcare information technology, professionals must comprehensively understand the importance of succession planning and then develop and implement a plan tailored to the organization and its resources.
Women Entrepreneurs: Changemakers in Healthcare
Five women entrepreneurs share advice and the lessons learned from starting their own business.
Section 6 - Preparing for the Future: Strategic Steps for Integrating LLMs and Generative AI in Organizations
In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, organizations are increasingly recognizing the need to integrate cutting-edge technologies such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI into their operations. To prepare for the increasing and evolving use of generative AI in the clinical...