Diana Nole
2021 has been a challenging year for teams across the healthcare industry. The long-tail impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have persisted for millions, leading to significant staff shortages, increasing feelings of burnout, and creating huge shifts in how care is delivered to patients. And with the Omicron variant causing a resurgence in contraction rates and […]
Often when we talk about the healthcare industry at large, we focus on a number of topics, ranging the gamut from system pressures, burnout, and patient experience, to cost, infrastructure, and interoperability. Certainly, there is an incredible amount of work we must continue to do to improve healthcare, but the reality is that while excellent healthcare is the result of a number of contributing factors, one aspect supersedes all else: strong, caring, […]
Women’s participation in the workforce pushes the economy forward; diversity in the workplace drives innovation, critical thinking, and problem solving in powerful, irreplaceable ways. Now consider this: a recent report from McKinsey and LeanIn.org revealed that 3 million women have left the labor force in the last year, and estimates that global economic growth could […]
I’ve always been a big football fan. There’s something incredibly exciting about watching so many players, each with their own unique strengths, working together to make a touchdown. But what’s even more interesting to me is watching how the best teams change their approach, evolve, and get stronger after playing against the fiercest and most […]
The extraordinary demands of a global health crisis in 2020 dramatically accelerated the digital transformation of clinician workflows, patient care, and healthcare delivery. As we hopefully emerge from the pandemic in 2021, the challenges will continue to be reducing physician burnout, more fully opening healthcare’s digital front door, and strengthening financial resilience. In addition, the […]
In 2007, The World Health Organization (WHO) published an article on the importance of accurate patient identification. Patient misidentification, they wrote, is the “root cause of many errors,” including the prescription of incorrect medication, flawed transfusions, testing errors, wrong person procedures, and the discharge of infants to the wrong families. To mitigate misidentification, the WHO […]
When faced with serious, unexpected challenges, it’s natural for any of us as individuals to first ask, “What do I do?” But as members of multiple personal and professional communities, the single most important question we need to ask ourselves and those around us is: “How can we help?” That was the question that dominated […]
Since the pandemic took hold in the U.S., much has been written about the impact on patient volumes and disruption to preventative health and chronic disease management. The disruption causes concern for conditions that might go untreated but also indicates that patients are “probably seeking alternative levels of care for less acute things that they […]
Healthcare systems need technology to help address burnout, capture appropriate reimbursement, and support telehealth efforts. Accordingly, developers large and small are clamoring to capture a share of a healthcare IT market expected to top $390 billion by 2024. The field is rife with innovation, opportunity, and promises of enabling healthcare organizations to do more with […]
