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February 20, 2025
This blog post explores how communication technology reduces the risk of negative outcomes and enhances patient safety in healthcare.
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February 5, 2025
Gain a better understanding of the common missteps that can happen when adopting a secure messaging solution for your healthcare organization.
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January 23, 2025
Improving patient safety is inherently connected to how care teams communicate effectively with each other. Well-designed clinical workflows rooted in efficient information sharing are the key to efficient operations at any hospital or health system. Explore the four ways improving communication elevates patient safety.
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January 8, 2025
Discover six essential reasons why HIPAA-compliant texting solutions are crucial for hospital BYOD messaging policies, including regulatory compliance, EHR integration, and secure directory access. Learn how secure messaging platforms protect patient data while improving clinical communication.
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December 19, 2024
What does it take to be the best of the best in healthcare IT? Dive into an analysis of the 2024 Most Wired Hospitals to see what they share.
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November 25, 2024
Difficulty reaching physicians and other on-call clinicians can delay patient treatment and negatively impact satisfaction. Discover the six things you should know when evaluating and purchasing advanced physician on-call scheduling software.
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October 2, 2024
Interoperability is an industry buzzword, but it’s often conflated with integration. Learn the difference between the two terms and why interoperability is key to the future of healthcare.
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September 12, 2024
HL7 standards are important to healthcare interoperability goals and EHR optimization. Read this post to learn more about HL7 standards, including APIs and FHIR.
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June 27, 2024
How does communication technology enhance clinical communication and care team collaboration? To give you some tangible examples, our mobility solutions expert examines three clinical workflows to show how communication technology fills the gaps created by the EHR by connecting care teams and systems to deliver information quickly and securely into the hands of those who need to act on it.
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September 21, 2023
With hospitals’ financial health and reputation on the line, many are looking for strategies on how to improve their HCAHPS scores. Here are four ways technology can help improve care team response and collaboration to provide the best patient experience.
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August 10, 2023
An online on-call scheduling system can take your contact center to the next level and help provider better support to care providers and patients.
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June 22, 2023
Addressing the clinician experience challenges of the Quadruple Aim will take a thoughtful, broad set of improvements, and communication workflow and technology improvements can make a meaningful difference.