Through years of expert clinical care, physicians have identified and implemented five strategies to help improve patient flow and care quality. With increased pressure on hospitals to streamline ...

The VA is accelerating a systemwide rollout of its new electronic health records platform, with full deployment at all ...

Carilion Clinic has managed its stretched hospital bed capacity with a command center and post-acute referral hub. Carilion Clinic has mastered the intricacies of operating a command center and ...

Appointment schedules should reflect physicians' work style and patient demands. One of the major mistakes many physicians make is thinking patient flow problems happen because of major time-consuming ...

Despite many hospital's efforts to reduce readmissions, penalties for excessive readmissions reached an all-time high this year. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid will levy fines to 2,610 hospitals ...

At Baptist Health, our mission has always been to deliver high-quality care to the communities we serve throughout Arkansas. With a network of hospitals and care facilities across the state, we are ...

1. Make patient flow a strategic priority. Patient flow issues can prevent clinicians from providing the right care, in the right place, at the right time. “Without addressing flow as a strategic ...

The layout of your medical practice can have an enormous effect on patient flow. Whether you’re starting a practice from scratch or considering a remodel, make a patient-friendly layout a priority.

It may not match the scale of the exodus of nurses from the healthcare workforce, but a growing shortage of physicians is no less of a threat to patient care. A recent survey found that one in five ...

Long waits, frustrated patients, and overburdened staff—these scenarios plague clinics without efficient scheduling systems. Running a clinic demands more than just good healthcare; managing patient ...

Traditionally, health systems have operated and behaved as unified entities in name only, with different hospitals and facilities within the same system working off of their own sets of key ...

A 33-year-old Caucasian woman presents to a community hospital with fever and cough; she is very short of breath, and explains that her symptoms have worsened progressively over the past 24 hours. She ...