We have just passed the one-year mark since the World Health Organization announced a global pandemic. We’ve seen the world come to a standstill as...
Category: Healthcare
The Business Case for Workforce Management: How One Hospital Saved Money and Improved Scheduling with Infor WFM
COVID-19 has created a scheduling nightmare for hospitals. Many are reaching capacity limits amid losing staff due to layoffs, fear of returning to work, or...
Healthcare – One Year Later
Last fall, we headed to Arizona for the CHIME Fall Forum, and didn’t know it would be among the last times CIOs and technology leaders...
Clinical Integration and Supply Chain Excellence: What it Can Do for Your Hospital
If there is one positive from the pandemic, it’s that it has exposed opportunities for improvement in supply chain management. Healthcare leaders have faced a...
Human Resources and Improving Patient Health in Long-Term Care
Long-term care facilities, including nursing facilities, assisted-living facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and home care providers are at the forefront of the COVID-19 crisis —along with...
Time for a Supply Chain Refresh? These Tips Can Help
Hospitals and healthcare organizations face the increasing challenge of managing escalating costs while striving to deliver exceptional patient experiences. Looking to the supply chain and...
Magic Data Lakes
A recent POLITICO article describes how “virus hunters” (public health experts charged with tracking infectious diseases like COVID-19) are forced to use archaic, 20th century...
Six Ways Hospitals Can Improve Cash Flow Now
As a result of the COVID-19 public health emergency, many healthcare institutions are struggling with cash flow. Elective procedures have been postponed and non-critical patients...
Emojis and Why Understanding Health Information Is So Difficult
I’ve been accused of being a geek. I’m not sure why. But anyway, last week I was listening to a podcast about emojis. You know...
Part III – Looking Ahead: Sustaining and scaling your telehealth program
So, You Implemented Telemedicine. Now What? In partnership with Sonder Health, Avaap is providing a three-part series for healthcare organizations that rapidly moved to implement a...