Hospitals have to manage more equipment, tests and data than ever before. At the same time, healthcare organizations face increasing financial pressure not only to provide great care, but also to deliver an outstanding overall patient experience. These factors are creating a need for hospitals to adopt tools and practices that help them improve coordination…

I’m currently working with a healthcare organization that is attempting to design the “hospital of the future.” It’s no surprise that this organization is adopting IT solutions to optimize patient care, but the hospital is spending just as much time and energy on improving the clinician experience. Why? For one, the hospital is trying to…

When patients are hospitalized, doctors track their blood pressure, heart rate, blood oxygen level and half a dozen other metrics. Some hospitals do a better job than others of using this data to arrive at real-time medical insights, but at least the information is available. When patients leave the hospital, however, their doctors often receive…

Telemedicine has been on the scene since the early days of the internet when the federal government looked to provide rural patients with access to the same kind of healthcare expertise that was available in large urban centers. While telemedicine has been available since at least the 1990s, results from CDW’s 2017 Patient Engagement Perspectives Study…

The rise of the internet with its open sharing of medical research and the explosion in health-related sites has created a much savvier healthcare consumer. High-quality healthcare costs a lot of money today, and patients are asking more questions about their care than ever before. In fact, CDW’s 2017 Patient Engagement Perspectives Study found that…

Healthcare organizations and senior care centers, despite the best of intentions, can be frustrating places — for patients, residents and caregivers alike. Huge volumes of sensitive information are in play, and mistakes can be costly, or even dangerous. Luckily, there are a variety of tools that have begun to make over caregiving spaces in a…