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Simplifying Medical Documentation: The Role of Healthcare Document Scanners

Scrubs

Amidst this chaos enters a hero—the healthcare document scanner , a tool that is fast becoming as essential to healthcare practices as stethoscopes and scrubs. Let’s delve into the heart of how this technology is reshaping the landscape of healthcare documentation. However, taking the leap isn’t as daunting as it appears.

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How to Keep Patients Satisfied — and Raise Your Patient Satisfaction Scores

Relias

Patient experience is directly tied to patient retention, reimbursement, and in many cases, better patient outcomes. As a result, many organizations continuously look for new ways to improve their patient satisfaction as efficiently and effectively as possible. How can you raise your patient satisfaction scores?

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Hospitals Are Looking for Hard ROI in Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

Bedside nurses spend way too much time in documentation," Warr says. The new program, she says, assigns those tasks to the virtual nurse, who can sit in a room in another part of the hospital and handle EMR documentation for several patients.

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The Transformational Role of Charge Nurses in the Post-Pandemic Era

American Nurse

Nursing units—the heart of patient care—are experiencing an existential crisis, and many hospitals grapple with pressing issues. Research indicates that patient fall rates are higher than acceptable, patient satisfaction scores are below targets, and staff turnover rates continue to rise. Clin Geriatr Med.

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OSF Healthcare Tests AI Tool to Schedule Advanced Care Planning

Health Leaders | Nursing

That information is then used by care teams to decide when to begin advanced care planning (ACP) for patients and their families. The tool could help health systems improve care for a large number of patients. Surveys estimate only 22% of Americans have documented their end-of-life wishes.

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The Exec: HCA Vigorously Develops Technology to Increase Nurse Efficiency

Health Leaders | Nursing

Mosier, who has led the Nashville, Tennessee-based healthcare system’s 93,000 RNs since the end of 2021, spoke with HealthLeaders about how HCA vigorously embraces technology to decrease redundant or unnecessary documentation so nurses can increase the time they spend with patients. So that's really exciting. Our pilots are going well.

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Let’s huddle up

American Nurse

Leadership agreed to keeping documentation requirements to a minimum and that all supervisors, managers, directors, and executives (clinical and nonclinical) should attend (but daily attendance wasn’t mandatory). Over the next 2 months, we designed MCI’s tiered huddle structure, agenda, reports, and documentation template.