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The volume of data and its pace of accumulation are steadily increasing. Healthcare organizations that can harness this data and use it to generate analytical and predictive insights will be able to significantly differentiate themselves and future-proof their business advantage. However, many organizations are limited in their ability to use this data due to legacy on-premises infrastructure, data silos and lack of skills.
Healthcare providers are increasingly looking to tap into their data assets to improve patient outcomes, act on innovation opportunities and drive intelligent decision-making across the organization. Unfortunately, most organizations simply don’t have the right infrastructure to ensure better discovery, trust and protection of their data assets.
Effective data management requires not just a sound data strategy, but also data governance and cleansing for improved data quality. Looking to the future, providers are beginning to harness innovations in analytics, automation and machine learning to make data-driven improvements in patient retention, care coordination, risk management, compliance, and staff experience.
Burnout among clinical and administrative staff is at an all-time high as mass resignations, economic uncertainty, and the lingering impacts of the pandemic combine to produce an intense environment. More than 50 percent of healthcare workers report stress in their workdays.
Data is your organization’s most strategic asset, and it can be leveraged to drive innovation and modernization. However, governance across a complex data estate can pose a challenge, especially when data is unstructured and in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments. Join data and AI experts from Microsoft, Profisee and Neudesic as they discuss the importance of strong data governance and share actionable insights and best practices. Included is an exclusive look at Microsoft Purview, a comprehensive set of solutions to help businesses govern, protect and manage their entire data estate.
While patient engagement plays a role in evaluation under the revised Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) reporting, it’s not important simply because it drives revenue. Rather, patient engagement is at the heart of all rehab therapy operations. Keeping patients engaged is vital not only to the bottom line of a clinic, but also to encouraging patient attendance, reviews and referrals. Creating two-way dialogue between patients and providers and sharing meaningful, data-driven conversations are key to building positive relationships. Software solutions like Net Health® Therapy for Outpatient can help outpatient therapy practices and acute-care rehab departments improve engagement one patient at a time.
Many healthcare providers enter important patient information using free-form text in the “notes” section of the EHR. This can result in clinical information that is unstandardized or uncategorized – meaning that important patient details may get lost. Natural language processing (NLP) solutions scan unstructured text to extract important words, concepts and relationships. However, the complexity of clinical language, as well as acronyms and abbreviations that may be specialty-specific, complicate this task for healthcare applications. An NLP solution grounded in robust clinical terminology is important for success in minimizing ambiguity in the patient record. IMO solutions help capture precise clinical data at the point of care and standardize it across settings and sources to power more informed decisions.
Social determinants of health (SDOH), or economic and social conditions that contribute to differences in health equity such as education access and quality, economic stability and healthcare access, contribute to differences in health equity across populations. While the clinical environment may not be sufficient to address all non-clinical factors that contribute to poor health, clinicians are uniquely positioned to screen for critical SDOH needs and initiate referrals for social support. To truly benefit the patient, SDOH data must be interoperable between EHRs, measurable and actionable – and must keep the clinician informed about outcomes from referrals and interventions. IMO solutions enable complete documentation at the point of care and standardize clinical patient data from diverse systems into consistent, structured terminology.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made tracking and monitoring employee health much more difficult, especially in healthcare settings. Net Health’s employee health software solutions can make it easier for you to manage employee health and occupational medicine departments. And our “Net Health Talks” webinars offer you up-to-date information on mandatory industry requirements and best practices for tracking, monitoring and reporting COVID-19 and flu cases, vaccines and exposures to help you navigate this unprecedented time.
Managing employee health in healthcare settings has been complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Managers must not only track COVID-19, but also the flu – and report the relevant health data, along with regulatory compliance and business insights. Using paper records and spreadsheets makes this job even more difficult, especially for occupational health managers who need to report this data for multiple clients. Net Health® Employee Health for Hospitals and Occupational Medicine are software solutions that integrate with EHRs and streamline processes for compliance tracking and employee wellness oversight.