When she noticed RNs weren't always able to make patient discharge a top priority, Baptist Health Lexington's CNO created a new nursing position to improve the discharge process. The result has been a ...

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environment, hospitals are under constant pressure to maintain efficient patient flow – a critical factor that influences everything from operational performance ...

Inova optimized infusion operations using AI to improve scheduling, expand access, and enhance the patient experience in Northern Virginia.

A new approach to hospital discharges at UCLA reduced the time patients spend waiting to leave the hospital by nearly 50% for ...

Traditionally, health systems have operated and behaved as unified entities in name only, with different hospitals and facilities within the same system working off of their own sets of key ...

Update: HIMSS20 has been canceled due to the coronavirus. Read more here. In this era of value-based care, it is imperative that hospitals excel at patient flow. This entails serving appropriate ...

The rising cost of healthcare services and the corresponding cost of healthcare insurance represent significant economic issues for employers. Additionally, these higher costs are proving to be a ...

Earlier this year, the National Academies reported that more than 20 percent of all donated organs are wasted, despite the fact that “on average, 17 people die every day from the lack of available ...

Anyone who is not in the medical profession and who has wandered into an emergency room may be baffled by the hours of waiting and the mysterious process by which nurses and doctors move patients ...

A 33-year-old Caucasian woman presents to a community hospital with fever and cough; she is very short of breath, and explains that her symptoms have worsened progressively over the past 24 hours. She ...