Measuring Satisfaction in Healthcare – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 14

For the 14th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Measuring Satisfaction in Healthcare. We all know a great experience when we see it, but measuring it across an organization is a really hard thing to do. Thus, we thought it would be a great topic for a podcast.

In this episode, we talk about the value of HCAHPS, what benefits they offer, what they don’t do, and then we talk about what healthcare organizations should be doing beyond HCAHPS to really measure how they’re doing. We also talk about the important topic of physician satisfaction and the related topic of employee satisfaction. When you see the stat of the day, you may rethink how much having satisfied employees matters to your organization.

Here’s a quick rundown of the topics and questions/topics we discuss in this episode:

  • Are HCAHPS Dead?
  • How Should Patient Experience Be Measured?
  • Physician Satisfaction
  • Interesting Stat of the Day

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Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you episode 14 of the Healthcare IT Today podcast.

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About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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