Real-time information creates better care outcomes
Capturing information about current clinical conditions of individual patients and comparing that data to desired progress plans, caregiver teams can assign resources to achieve the best possible outcomes for each patient, at each moment in time. This patient-centric, outcomes-driven approach creates real, measurable improvements in care delivery:
- As patients receive the right care, from the right people, at the right time, they recover more rapidly, enjoy a better in-hospital experience and the shortest possible length of stay
- Schedules move from reactive response to proactive management, becoming more predictable and more reliable
- Confident in the reliability of their schedules and knowing that their skills are being effectively applied to helping their patients get better faster, the nursing staff enjoys greater job satisfaction
- Evidence-based allocation staff resources dramatically reduces operational inefficiencies and cuts overtime requirements, leading to superior financial performance
August 19th, 2010
Texting, as well as email-and Internet-enabled smartphones, have changed the way we communicate. Now, they can change the way you manage your scheduling needs, helping you cut waste and provide your team with up-to-date information anytime, anywhere.
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August 6th, 2010
Clairvia customer and highly respected national leader, Kathleen D. Sanford, RN, MA, DBA, FACHE., was interviewed by HFMA in July in an article titled “Staffing Issues: A Major Concern for Nursing.” Sanford, senior vice president and CNO of Catholic Health Initiatives raises very important questions such as truly understanding the cost of nursing services, and how CHI is addressing the business case for quality.
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July 8th, 2010
In an article co-written with Rhonda Anderson, RN, DNSc, FAAN, FACHE for the October 2009 issue of Nursing Economic$, Dr. Karlene Kerfoot, Chief Nurse Executive at Aurora Health Care, stated, “the role and function of nurses in acute care settings must be supported by evidence related to outcomes.” Noting that “evidence-based staffing goes beyond ‘filling a hole’ in the schedule and the concept that ‘a nurse is a nurse is a nurse,’” Anderson and Kerfoot assert that in a pay-for-performance world “we need the right nurse for the right patient at the right time to meet … safety and quality outcomes.”
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The following is condensed from Dr. Birmingham’s article in the June, 2010 issue of Nurse Leader, available online to subscribers, at the magazine’s website.
Working directly with patients at every moment of every day, nurses can play a transformative role in raising the value of care. When the right nurses are assigned to the right patients, at the right time, outcomes are improved, costs are reduced, and patient, staff and physician satisfaction are increased. Evidence-based staffing models are key to achieving these transformative benefits, and can be implemented using existing information and technology.
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July 7th, 2010
On June 16, 2010, ANA-supported Safe Staffing legislation was introduced in the House and Senate.
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June 7th, 2010
Part 1: Length of Stay
The other day I heard that even with increased taxes and program cutbacks, within a few years the rising costs of medical care would overcome those efforts to keep the US financially healthy. While we might not have “signed up” to solve the country’s financial problems, you can bet that those who did sign up to solve them will be putting huge pressure on the health care industry to control costs, while maintaining care quality.
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April 15th, 2010
Can you picture an Indy car? the driver walking to the car, cameras scanning down to the drivers ….. high heeled shoes? In the car she goes, revs the engine, races around the track and crosses the finish line! Off comes the drivers helmet and out of the car steps ….AONE President Pam Rudisill welcoming us to Indianapolis!!!
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As knowledge and technology in healthcare has advanced leaps and bounds in the past 50 years, are patients at a higher risk for errors occurring during their treatment, and if so, what changes need to be made to make our patients safer?
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“Web 2.0, Health 2.0, eHealth, patient-centric health care” – all buzz words we’ve heard in recent years referring to the exponentially rapid and continuous immersion into the information age. But what does this paradigm shift really mean for us in our everyday lives? What does this mean for the lives and well-being of our patients?
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March 29th, 2010
With new health care reform on the horizon, AONE 2010 sets the stage for new ideas that provide innovative, evidenced-based solutions to create positive transformation in health care management. Part of the transformation involves us stepping out of traditionally known staffing and scheduling solutions to an integrated patient centric and outcomes-driven solution called Care Value Management (CVM).
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