Why Environment of Care Rounds Matter

For healthcare providers, the physical environment of care has a significant impact on patient wellbeing and the ability of care teams to deliver high quality outcomes. As the healthcare industry has evolved to focus more on patient-centered care, environment of care rounding has become an increasingly useful tool in improving both patient and staff engagement.

As the nation begins a phased reopening in the days ahead, all industries will face the challenge of effectively managing employee health needs. With over 740,000 total cases of COVID-19 nationally, organizations will need processes in place to effectively handle the return to the workforce in a way that keeps employees as safe as possible. (1)

Access Centers: The Need and The Challenges

Healthcare systems are increasingly focused on improving patient access to care in order to attract new patients and retain existing ones. (1)

Access centers act as an entry point to health systems and are critically important in not only improving patient outcomes, but also expanding revenue and improving margins. (1)

Digital transformations in healthcare rely on data-driven technology to improve patient outcomes. 

It’s not unusual for larger organizations to routinely juggle information between 800-1,000 applications across disparate, siloed IT systems. (1)

Fourteen avoidable hospital-acquired conditions accounted for 48,771 adverse patient outcomes, 3,219 deaths and more than $2 billion in excess hospital costs in 2016, according to an IBM Watson Health study. (1)

The Importance of Quality in Healthcare Reimbursement

Healthcare reimbursement describes the payment that a hospital, diagnostic facility, or other healthcare provider receives for providing patients with a medical service. (1) It’s important to look at how the healthcare reimbursement model has changed over time in order to understand the processes underlying the current U.S. healthcare system, as well as the gaps and limitations that exist within it.

The Impact of Patient Experience on Health Outcomes

In the United States, over 35 million patients stay in hospitals every year (1). For physicians and hospital staff who see hundreds of patients each day, it can be easy to lose sight of individual experiences. However, for each of those patients, their healthcare journeys are unique and deeply personal.

There are 134 million patient safety events that occur each year, resulting in $20B in annual costs. (1) Patient safety technology supports healthcare organizations in their efforts to prevent patient safety events and yields the following outcomes:

Over time, the healthcare industry has started to see a more focused movement to address patient safety and quality of care (1).

In a healthcare setting, "employee health" pertains to