A study, published in BMC Infectious Diseases, examined an EMR alert system’s effectiveness in promoting the intra-hospital referral of patients with hepatitis B surface antigen antibody or ...

Patient referrals to medical specialists can be a complicated, highly manual and slow process, leading to delays in patient care, payer denials and missed patients. When a primary care doctor refers a ...

A health system's new AI tool is helping clinicians target the right specialist for a referral, prompt appropriate workups before a referral, and eliminate unnecessary referrals. Providence health ...

An 82-year-old stroke patient lies medically cleared in an acute care bed, every night spent costs $2,000, and she’s been there six days past discharge because no one can confirm which skilled nursing ...

At its core, healthcare is a people business. When organizations listen to patients and act on what they hear, they build trust and create a culture of continuous improvement. Providers that deliver ...

Functional, standardized referral pathways can make or break patient outcomes. While this is true in overall health, nowhere has it become more apparent than in vascular health, where many patients in ...

Stiff competition in the health care industry is requiring organizations to evolve and adopt digital marketing strategies in order to survive. Many patients are now researching health care practices ...