Healthcare communication has evolved from handwritten notes and paper charts to digital tools like EHRs, telemedicine, and AI-powered platforms. This blog explores how these advancements improve patient outcomes, streamline care delivery, and enhance provider collaboration. Learn about the role of mobile health (mHealth) apps, secure messaging, and social media in bridging communication gaps.

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is transforming healthcare by enabling providers to track patient health outside traditional clinical settings. This blog explores the role of technology in RPM, including wearable devices, mobile apps, and connected medical tools that collect and share real-time data. Discover how RPM expands care access, improves outcomes, enhances patient engagement, and reduces costs by shifting from reactive to proactive care.

Running a healthcare facility requires precision and care, not just for patients but also for your staff. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps healthcare providers choose the best provider. Efficient payroll management ensures timely, accurate payments, critical for maintaining staff morale and trust. Compliance support helps navigate complex healthcare regulations and avoid costly fines.

Explore essential topics in this ebook, including what constitutes PHI and how to identify it using 18 indicators. Gain insights into the importance of safeguarding PHI to protect patient privacy and learn about the severe consequences of HIPAA violations. Discover practical strategies for securely exchanging PHI within your healthcare organization, including assessing risks and implementing effective safeguards.

Explore the risks posed by non-compliant consumer apps like Instagram and WhatsApp in healthcare settings. Learn about potential HIPAA penalties and use a self-evaluation flowchart to determine your organization's need for HIPAA-compliant messaging. Discover straightforward steps to implement secure communication solutions efficiently, ensuring compliance and protecting patient data effectively.

This eBook explores the critical issues of using consumer-grade messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and SMS in healthcare, especially home care. It highlights the negative impacts on patient care quality, data security, and HIPAA compliance and provides practical solutions to enhance communication efficiency! You will learn how to: Consolidate Messaging Platforms: Streamline communication by reducing the use of multiple apps, improving efficiency in patient care.

Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

Keeping up with compliance can be intimidating, but this checklist can help make your job a little easier! Use this printable checklist to ensure your systems are buttoned up to avoid breaches, HIPAA violations, and other privacy and safety infractions.

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Undetected in-transit issues in the cold chain can cost companies billions of dollars in lost revenue. Data collection is no new concept for the pharmaceutical supply chain –– but is it the right data? And is it being used properly? This guide explores critical concepts that supply chain professionals need to know when it comes to tracking and analyzing cold chain shipments, including: Why the "how" and "when" of collecting and using data are essential to optimizing cold chain distribution.

Gaining a higher level of visibility into pharmaceutical supply chains is essential as the portion of pharmaceutical products sensitive to temperature, vibration, humidity or timing is growing at approximately twice the rate of non-cold chain products. Having the ability to monitor the location and condition of these shipments intermittently and accurately is the next step to achieving a higher level of on time and in full (OTIF) deliveries of these lifesaving, high-value products.

There’s little room for error in most global supply chains, but none for the pharma cold chain. Real-time visibility and tracking are critical to order accuracy, schedule reliability, inventory management and compliance in a high-value, highly regulated industry. Failure is measured in lost revenue, reputation, and potentially patient lives. In this article, produced in partnership with Connected Health Pulse, we explore five critical challenges in pharmaceutical supply chains caused by a lack o

The labor market is under an unprecedented squeeze, and the logistics industry has been hit particularly hard by the “Great Resignation.” According to Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, the labor shortage will cost the U.S. as much as $1 trillion, and 2.1 million positions could remain unfilled by 2023. To combat the effects of the tightening labor market, agile logistics companies are focusing their efforts on adopting tools and processes that drive efficiency and help their operations’

Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) have a lot on their plate. A job that was once as simple as moving goods around now involves managing countless vendors, juggling demanding customer expectations, and providing an all-around seamless experience. In response to the growing complexity of the modern global supply chain, logistics service providers are embracing digital supply chain solutions powered by new IoT tracking technologies and data analytics.

Port congestion is a standout topic in current conversations surrounding logistics and the supply chain. With consumer demand and e-commerce at an all-time high, huge spikes in U.S. imports have led to severe backups that have hobbled many companies utilizing West Coast ports. This report, built from extensive survey data from a myriad of shippers and logistics providers, shines light on visibility gaps that have contributed to the current crisis of port congestion.

This guide addresses the increased demand for and benefits of expanding your virtual care options to help retain patients, cut down on hospital readmissions, and expand revenue opportunities. 5 steps to create your complete care continuum. 5 ways a virtual care platform improves ROI.

Although there are many technology options when it comes to building a digital supply chain, one stands out as the most reliable and cost-effective: cellular. In this whitepaper, you'll learn about: The impact of cellular-based visibility solutions on the modern supply chain. Ongoing advances in cellular technology and infrastructure. The rise of 4G, 5G, and soon 6G cellular technology.

To keep pace with consumers’ increasing demands for all things fresh, grocery supply chains must have end-to-end visibility. However, even in 2022, retailers and supermarkets continue to be challenged by visibility gaps. It’s clear more than ever that grocery supply chain management is the heart and soul of the future of grocery retail. All food retailers face tough choices today as the economy continues to emerge from the global pandemic.