Six Ways Comprehensive Behavioral Health Reduces Avoidable Costs

Sponsored by
Amwell

While all sectors of healthcare are experiencing the financial and operational burdens of the ongoing workforce shortage and rising healthcare costs, these burdens are perhaps felt most acutely in the behavioral health sector. But behavioral health is also the sector poised for innovation, and health systems and the patients they serve thrive when virtual and automated care enhances their behavioral healthcare experience.

 

In this ebook, we share six ways virtual and automated care can help your health system deliver better behavioral healthcare while also saving on avoidable costs by:

Reducing emergency department boarding

Avoiding preventable readmissions

Improving the efficacy of mental health evaluations 

Increasing resources

How to Increase Patient Collections + Loyalty

Sponsored by
Waystar

For Americans, inflation and high deductibles mean patients are getting bigger bills, which causes both surprise and confusion. Often, patients don’t understand why they owe so much, or they aren’t able to meet their financial responsibility even if they do.

Obviously, this is difficult for patients — but it’s also debilitating for healthcare organizations. When patient collections are down, providers face bad debt, poor patient retention, and decreased satisfaction for patients and staff. So, what’s the answer?

It’s time to create a better patient collections experience. Providers who take action now can change a potentially bleak future simply by rethinking patient collections. By evolving your process and offering consumer-friendly experiences, you can empower your patients to manage their health — and their bills — with less stress and surprise.

What’s inside:

  1. The current state of patient collections, from deductibles to denials
  2. Why transparency is key to patient satisfaction + compliance
  3. Using automation + data to improve patient collections
  4. How to empower patients to pay with the 3 Cs

The IT Leader’s Underleveraged Opportunity to Reduce Clinician Burnout

Sponsored by
Wolters Kluwer

How IT leaders can help reduce clinician burnout.

58% of clinicians say too many administrative tasks contribute to burnout*.

As health systems scramble to attract, hire, and retain talent, they need to focus on ways to enable clinicians to do more of what they love – care for patients. The opportunity to reduce clinician tasks and streamline processes can fall squarely in the IT leaders’ area, directly impacting workload, costs, and patient safety and outcomes.

How can IT leaders effectively engage teams to better support clinicians with technology they’ll value? In this eBook, learn about implementing key strategies such as:

  • Modernizing and consolidating tech solutions
  • Engaging the care team in the process
  • Updating IT governance structure
  • Optimize tools for both clinicians and patients

Learn more about supporting clinicians with technology in the eBook, “The IT Leader’s Underleveraged Opportunity to Reduce Clinician Burnout”.

*COVID-19 Drives Physician Burnout for Some Specialties. MedScape. January 25,2021. Retrieved on June 29, 2023 from: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/944594#vp_2

Aligning Care Decisions Across the Patient Journey

Sponsored by
Wolters Kluwer

Elevate the patient experience through aligned care

Providing an elevated patient experience is not just an opportunity for healthcare organizations – it’s a mandate.

Care teams need to work from the same expert, evidence-based medical information to support better, safer decision-making across the patient’s entire health journey. By aligning care decisions with harmonized solutions, clinicians and teams can:

  • Improve information sharing with trusted, expert content
  • Alleviate clinician burnout
  • Reduce variation in care and improve outcomes

Download the white paper "Aligning Care Decisions Across the Patient Journey” to learn more about the benefits of providing expert, evidence-based content across your care teams to elevate the patient experience.

Key Opportunities to Mitigate Clinician Shortages

Sponsored by
Omega Healthcare

Industry surveys cite 53% of physicians are burned out and 41% of nurses plan to leave their job—challenging provider organizations to meet growing demands from an increasingly sicker patient population.

This whitepaper highlights the healthcare industry’s crisis regarding clinician burnout and staff shortages, and how care coordination can enhance the patient experience.

Download this paper to:

  • Identify the factors driving clinician dissatisfaction and administrative burdens, leaving providers with less time for direct patient care
  • See how care coordination activities help extend the care team through remote patient monitoring, telephone message and inbox triage, and customer contact centers 
  • Learn how a leading health system leveraged certified virtual nurses to support care management, patient outreach, payer interaction, and clinical documentation initiatives

Virtual Patient Observation Drives Outcomes and Improves Patient Safety

Sponsored by
Collette Health

On Friday July 28, KLAS, a leading provider of research and data statements, released its spotlight on MedSitter as an Emerging Solutions Spotlight in healthcare. This white paper reviews the overwhelmingly positive key results from the KLAS Emerging Solutions Spotlight.

The white paper conveys the company’s plans for growth as it continues to serve healthcare facilities across the nation and specifies individual areas in which MedSitter is working to enhance its product. These items were able to be identified based on the KLAS reporting.

The white paper concludes with a brief summary statement from KLAS and shares why the clients surveyed selected MedSitter as their virtual patient observer staffing solution.

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