It’s no secret that, since the pandemic, nurses have been leaving the profession in droves. However, a nurse shortage has been anticipated for a while, predating the pandemic; demographics made it inevitable. “A decade ago, the average age of nurses in our hospital was 48 years old, so we knew we were going to have […]
The Promise of Care Orchestration in Healthcare Chilmark Research recently authored an illuminating white paper entitled Automation andCare Orchestration. The focus of the paper is on how care orchestration “can play a role inimproving outcomes, lowering costs, and improving the working conditions for both clinicaland administrative workers.” In laying out the case for investing in […]
By Cindy Gaines, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, Lumeon As the workforce crisis in healthcare deepens, improving productivity is becoming a top priority. However, productivity has often been seen as a productivity target focusing on decreasing headcount – a mathematical ratio between the number of staff and patients. As Dr. Christy Dempsey explained in a recent […]
By Robbie Hughes, Founder & CEO, Lumeon We’ve been watching with interest as every health system has been rolling out substantial operational changes through their EMR over the last quarter, to ready themselves for the biggest vaccination campaign in my lifetime. What we’ve seen from the market is, as expected, a wide diversity of opinion […]
This June, Dr Jean-Jacques de Gorter, Group Medical Director at Spire Healthcare gave a headline talk at our Catalyst conference. We caught up with Dr de Gorter after the event to get a brief summary of Spire’s approach to Care Pathway Management. Spire have been implementing clinical care pathways for the past ten years in […]
