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Among other wins, St. Luke's University Health Network has reduced length of stay for patients going to post-acute facilities by 0.3 days. This decrease translates into significant bed availability and improved patient throughput.

The chair of clinical pharmacy practice details how the organization got, for example, racial/ethnic minorities receiving chemotherapy two times higher likelihood in reporting pain compared with non-Hispanic whites.

Officers in Oklahoma can contact mental health professionals from their vehicles, avoiding ER visits and other risks. In the counties served by the virtual care program, there has been a 93.1% reduction in hospitalizations for mental health crises.

At HIMSS24, the company, known for its digital approach to brain health evaluation, also has revealed it has acquired Aural Analytics, a vendor of clinical-grade speech analytics.

Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone, a practicing neurologist and cofounder of Linus Health, offers an in-depth look at his company's digital replacement for a longtime paper test that helps assess risk of dementia and stroke.

"From a patient safety perspective, this was a very important milestone for us to achieve to ensure that we are providing the highest level of care to one of our most vulnerable patient populations," the health system's chief nurse executive says.

Tech-enabled experiential learning is elevating nursing curriculums to engage more students – and produce more graduates who say they're ready to hit the ground running in a digital health environment.

The chief innovation officer at Phoenix Children’s lived up to his title when he enabled inexpensive, ubiquitous, hands-free virtual care using devices meant for the home in his 750 exam rooms – with no new FTEs to support them.

Mountain Region CommonSpirit Health's CMIO outlines novel ways RTLS is being used in finding everything from staff and patients to equipment and patients' personal items – and how it all adds up to the quadruple aim.

Dr. John Busigin, Covenant Health's Advanced Care at Home medical director, said that 20-30% of patients who traditionally received high acuity care at hospitals could receive virtual care through the program.