Before she became the CIO of Bay Area-based El Camino Health, Deb Muro was a practicing nurse. She knows firsthand just how stressful and draining the nursing profession can be — which is part…
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Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives…
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Connie Moser, Chief Executive Officer, Navenio
The COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed a profound transformation within the healthcare sector, revealing an urgent need to modernize and enhance the way care is delivered. Amidst the global crisis,…
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The amount of technology that’s in the hospital room today is extraordinary. We have more monitors at our fingertips than ever before that are all watching and alerting us of potential problems for the…
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It’s National Nurses Week 2024, and it’s time to celebrate the more than 5 million RNs nationwide who are so essential to care delivery. But overshadowing the celebration are many challenges impacting the nursing workforce….
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Anyone who has been on a hospital ward, whether as clinician, patient, or visitor, has noticed the continual din of beeps and chirps—it can drive you crazy. It’s notable that one of the simple…
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Each health system is a unique enterprise with its own mission, locale and payer mix. However, many of hospitals’ biggest challenges remain the same throughout the sector — low reimbursement rates, proliferating cyberattacks and…
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1. Make Nursing Stakeholders a Priority At UMMC, Davis said, a lack of nursing staff and nurse burnout were major concerns that contributed to re-examining virtual nursing as a necessary solution. The health system…
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The KLAS Arch Collaborative wanted to learn more about how doctor and nurse burnout has evolved since the pandemic, and what hospitals and health systems can do to address it. So it conducted a…
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Since 2018, burnout rates have increased for all types of clinicians, particularly physicians and nurses. Though recent KLAS data indicates burnout rates are slightly decreasing among these two groups, their burnout rates are still…
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