Patient Flow Concerns during Flu Season
Oct 28, 2019
With flu season rapidly approaching, medical centers are beginning to plan for a potentially rough year. The impact an increase in patients can have to patient flow is significant, and when you also have a shortage of staff, the impact can be even greater.
How to Improve Patient Flow in Your Healthcare Facility
Sep 30, 2019
Patient experience is more important than ever in healthcare facilities of all types and sizes. Value-based care has ushered in a new era in which healthcare organizations must focus on improving patient experience if they hope to survive.
New Technology
Sep 04, 2019
In a recent article, the results of a MGMA surveyed more than 650 healthcare leaders to get a sense for how clinics are helping to improve the patient experience with the implementation of new technology. With the rising cost of healthcare, specifically in the area of administrative costs, the implementation...
Patient Flow - Inside Healthcare article
Aug 12, 2019
Improving the patient experience is one of the biggest focal points in healthcare today. Time is a person’s most valuable commodity and the dreaded wait time at a physician’s office can significantly impact customer service. Happy patients translate into increased loyalty and thereby protect an institution’s...
The EMR Crisis
Jul 29, 2019
What started with good intentions for digitizing medical records has presented greater challenges than anyone would've imagined. Electronic medical record systems have the great potential to ease the cost of health care as immediate accessibility of medical records and their transfer from one health center to...
10 Tips to Improve Patient Service in Healthcare
Nov 27, 2018
Every industry faces the challenge of providing exceptional patient service. In the ever-evolving healthcare industry, the quality of patient service is more pivotal than ever. In fact, with the advent of value-based care, patient experience tops the list of concerns of healthcare administrators who must balance...
Achieving Excellence through Continuous Improvement
Oct 15, 2018
Healthcare is at a point of a complete transformation. Providing practices with the tools to succeed and excel is what MGMA focuses on and provides to its members. In a recent MGMA report, results from the DataDive Better Performers and Analysis Report shows how medical practices can achieve increased...
Practice Transformation to Improve Patient Experience
Sep 13, 2018
Practice Transformation is on the minds of everyone in healthcare these days. As this article states clinical quality and patient experience are 2 of the factors needed to complete the transformation of any healthcare organization. According to a recent report from Press Ganey, healthcare is in great need of...
Using Analytics to Improve Patient Flow and Satisfaction
Aug 28, 2018
Enduring extended wait times to see a provider has been part of the culture of healthcare for years. Now with the boom of social media, those wait times are impacting the bottom-line of clinics everywhere. A recent article in HealthData Management discusses studies that as a result of long wait times, have found...
