12 Leaders Making a Difference in Healthcare Quality
The Digital Patient, which tells the stories of leaders in Digital Health, is excited to highlight the accomplishments of 12 leaders driving transformative change in healthcare quality.
Learn MoreThe Digital Patient, which tells the stories of leaders in Digital Health, is excited to highlight the accomplishments of 12 leaders driving transformative change in healthcare quality.
Learn MoreAt SeamlessMD we’ve learned a lot about getting high patient adoption for Digital Health solutions. But those learnings came from making a TON of mistakes with health systems in the past 12 years… but hopefully we can help you learn from those! Here are 14 reasons why patients might not be adopting your Digital Health solutions (and what you should fix!)
Learn MoreThe short answer is you don’t have to invest in one or the other. Many health systems leverage device-based RPM to reach the 5% of patients most at-risk for chronic care management and then use Digital Care Journeys to reach the other 95% of patients in a scalable way. Although some health systems only use Digital Care Journeys to have a consolidated approach.
Learn MoreOn a recent webinar hosted by Digital Health Canada, Dr. Jeremy Ho, a Medical Oncologist at Vancouver Coastal Health and the Richmond Hospital Cancer Care Clinic, shared insights and lessons learned on their use of Remote Symptom Monitoring (powered by SeamlessMD) to enhance the cancer journey for patients.
Learn MoreWe are excited to announce the launch of our first-ever “Seamless Care Awards”, a program designed to celebrate and recognize the exceptional achievements of our healthcare partners. These awards spotlight the remarkable efforts our partners put into enhancing patient care through digital care journey innovation.
Learn MoreFor the past two years, Cornwall Community Hospital (CCH) has integrated SeamlessMD into patient care, improving the pre- and post-operative experiences of surgical patients.
Learn MoreThunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center now relies on videos as part of its virtual care program to educate patients. One of many benefits: It has reduced inbound patient questions – for every 15 questions nurses used to get, now they get only one.
Learn MoreRecently Dr. Sabrena Noria, Surgical Director of Bariatric Surgery at Ohio State University’s (OSU) Wexner Medical Center, shared insights on how her center uses digital care journeys (SeamlessMD) to engage and track patients from referral through surgery - which has helped OSU reduce time to surgery by 1.5 months already.
Learn MoreNora has lived with Crohn’s disease for the last almost 50 years of her life. This meant having to be mindful of her diet, be on medications, and endure a bowel resection, a hysterectomy, and several colonoscopies over the span of her diagnosis. Nora is no stranger to procedures, and they have been a regular part of maintaining her health while living with Crohn’s. With her last colonoscopy at Markham Stouffville Hospital, Nora was introduced to an application called SeamlessMD, a program that would help her prepare for and recover from her procedure, via a personal mobile device.
Learn MoreUAB Medicine recently spotlighted Dr. Daniel Chu, Division Director of Gastrointestinal Surgery and ERAS Medical Director, on UAB’s experience using a digital care journey platform (SeamlessMD) to automate reminders, education and symptom monitoring for patients pre and post-surgery.
Learn MoreThese 9 digital health and innovation leaders are being recognized for having demonstrated significant accomplishment and innovation in leveraging Digital Health to improve the patient experience, clinical outcomes, and operational metrics for health systems in Canada.
Learn MoreIn 2021 MultiCare Health System, a 12-hospital system in Washington, embarked on a journey of Digital Transformation for patient care journeys. By leveraging SeamlessMD, a digital care journey platform, MultiCare has been automating patient education and remote monitoring for orthopedics, women’s health, urology, bariatrics and more.
Learn MoreOn a recent webinar hosted by Digital Health Canada, Andriana Lukich, Director, Digital Solutions or St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH), shared insights and lessons learned on how her hospital has leveraged deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) to transform surgical care.
Learn MoreSRHC partnered with SeamlessMD to launch a surgical remote monitoring platform to enhance patient experience and improve clinical outcomes.
Learn MoreOn a recent webinar hosted by Digital Health Canada, Caroline Fanti, Director of Surgical Services for Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC) shared insights on how her hospital has leveraged deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) to transform surgical care across Northwestern Ontario.
Learn MoreThe following is an excerpt from a MEDITECH article written by our good friend, Dr. James Chan, whose team at Sault Area Hospital have been pioneers in Digital Patient Engagement. For more information, check out their phenomenal results with SeamlessMD posted earlier this year.
Learn MoreThese 15 healthcare leaders are being recognized for having demonstrated significant accomplishment and innovation in leveraging Digital Health to improve the patient experience, clinical outcomes, and operational metrics for patients undergoing surgery.
Learn More4 key themes from the 2023 ASER PM on what's next and important for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) success, as told by healthcare leaders.
Learn MoreWith the increased adoption of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery programs, health systems are now looking to the next step - scaling and expanding ERAS across service lines. Here are 5 things to consider when scaling.
Learn MoreKey strategies and lessons from Dr. Peter Pronovost on leveraging innovation and digital tools for building efficient health systems that empower care teams and patients alike.
Learn MoreAs healthcare leaders feel the pressure of doing more with less without affecting the delivery of care, exploring and ensuring the return on investment (ROI) from these platforms – both in terms of costs and clinical outcomes – is critical. Tailored specifically for the healthcare industry, that is precisely what the SeamlessMD ROI Calculator can help you do. Here are a few hypothetical scenarios to help outline the potential impact for your organization with Digital Care Journeys.
Learn MoreOur ERAS Spotlight features interviews with clinical leaders who are on the front lines striving to reduce variation of care, standardize care and deliver high reliability health care. Kim Duggan shares her insights on scaling ERAS across multiple service lines, creating multidisciplinary committees, recommendations to meet the Quadruple Aim of Healthcare, and more!
Learn MoreBariatric departments lose more than $1M of revenue annually due to referral to surgery leakage. Here are five ways Digital Care Journey platforms automate the bariatrics referral to surgery process.
Learn MoreGather strategies, recommendations, and workflows around choosing and implementing a Digital Care Journey platform.
Learn MoreApp-based RPM solutions offer condition-specific care plans and education, symptom tracking, PROs collection, EHR integrations and have broader market usage and more potential use cases (e.g. surgery, oncology, chronic care, mental health, etc.
Learn MoreWith the numerous protocols to follow, identifying which data or metrics to collect, and analyzing them, is critical for the success of an ERAS program. Here’s a look at some of the metrics that leading organizations with multiple ERAS pathways measure, and scale, for consistent data collection.
Learn MoreWith a potential to save healthcare providers up to $78 billion per year in costs, an improved EHR with interoperable and integrated tech can benefit both providers and patient population. Here are the 7 key considerations and advantages - according to healthcare leaders across North America
Learn MoreERAS committees help identify and implement evidence-based clinical pathways, monitor and optimize the program, and be the channel of communication between frontline care teams and executive and leadership teams throughout the process. Here's the who, why, and how to building one.
Learn MoreOur ERAS Spotlight features interviews with clinical leaders who are on the front lines striving to reduce variation of care, standardize care and deliver high reliability health care. Brie Reed, ERAS Clinical Nurse Coordinator, Total Joint and Spinal Fusion at the University of Kansas Health System, shares her insights on securing org buy in, specific ERAS metrics to monitor, navigating resourcing barriers to ERAS rollouts, tools to manage ERAS programs, and more!
Learn MoreHospitals across North America are continuing to face surgical backlogs and increased wait times owing to challenges across staffing, inpatient bed availability, and reduced operating room capacity. Today, more than 30 hospitals and health systems across North America have taken a digital health approach with SeamlessMD’s Digital Care Journey platform to combat these challenges prompted by the pandemic.
Learn MoreBest outcomes are achieved when we keep patient at the center of strategy and innovation. And that benefits not just the patients, but also clinical teams. So what does it mean to have a patient-centered approach to innovation?
Learn MoreOur ERAS Spotlight features interviews with clinical leaders who are on the front lines striving to reduce variation of care, standardize care and deliver high reliability health care. Kimberly Coffman, Clinical Program Manager at Lima Memorial Health System, shares her insights and experiences deploying, scaling, and optimizing an ERAS program across multiple service lines including the importance of creating multidisciplinary committees, consistent communication, and tips for inspiring others.
Learn MoreIn the past two decades, ERAS has increasingly gained traction across North America. It is being recognized as a strategic tool that, with the right change management strategies, can improve outcomes, costs, and patient safety, while also keeping staff satisfaction high. Here’s a look at how to secure initial organizational buy-in for an ERAS program.
Learn MoreWith technology at the forefront of the patient experience, healthcare providers are adopting a digital-first approach to managing care.
Learn MoreOur ERAS Spotlight features interviews with clinical leaders who are on the front lines striving to reduce variation of care, standardize care and deliver high reliability health care. We spoke with Rebecca Jablonski, ERAS Clinical Nurse Leader at Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System.
Learn MoreIn 2021 Grand River Hospital (GRH), one of Ontario’s largest community hospitals with 665 beds providing innovative, quality care to more than 840,000 residents of Waterloo Region and Guelph Wellington, partnered with SeamlessMD, a leading Digital Care Journey platform, to launch a surgical remote monitoring platform to support patients undergoing hip or knee replacements.
Learn MoreERAS teams hustle to improve patient outcomes, save staff time, and optimize the patient experience. But, due to staff shortages and overwhelmed providers, these teams still face challenges to get the most out of their ERAS initiatives.
Learn MoreIn 2018 UAB Medicine, one of the top academic medical centers in the United States, partnered with SeamlessMD, a leading Digital Care Journey platform, to augment their Enhanced Recovery Program (ERP) strategy by digitally engaging and monitoring patients undergoing gynecology oncology surgery.
Learn MoreAt a time when safety, quality, and innovation are more mission-critical than ever before, healthcare organizations are racing to meet the rising consumer demand for increased access to healthcare. As such, healthcare providers are embracing Remote Patient Monitoring solutions in order to allow patients to conveniently manage their own care, while also allowing providers to provide customized care recommendations and intervene faster when necessary.
Learn MoreWhen we think about the patient journey, especially in cardiac surgery, patients are often overwhelmed with lots of paper and verbal instructions. They lose the instructions or misplace the paperwork, or they forget, there's no day-to-day reinforcement, and, ultimately, it's hard to follow.
Learn MoreTechnology has undoubtedly changed communication between patients and providers for the better - especially in the way they receive healthcare information. A growing body of evidence supports the use of digital care journey technology to improve patient satisfaction and engagement, which in turn improves the quality of care and patient outcomes.
Learn MoreHistorically, fee-for-service payment models in healthcare have rewarded quantity over quality of medical services. In recent years, however, there has been a shift to value-based care, such as bundled payment models that incentivize providers to achieve better health outcomes at lower costs.
Learn MoreThe adoption of digital patient engagement solutions skyrocketed over the past few years, as market forces such as the pandemic, healthcare consumerism, value-based care, and staffing shortages set in motion the need for more virtual touch points between providers and healthcare consumers and necessitated the evolution of engagement solutions to extend beyond appointment reminders to patient driven virtual care management solutions or digital care journeys that can be accessed from anywhere on our everyday devices.
Learn MoreSeamlessMD is proud to announce that it has been named on the 2022 Best Workplaces in Technology List. This is the second consecutive year that SeamlessMD has been included on this list, after a thorough and independent analysis conducted by Great Place to Work®.
Learn MoreThe digital front door strategy offers an enhanced patient experience by leveraging the latest technology to automate manual workflows and digitally engage patients through different stages of the patient journey.
Learn MoreOver the past decade, health systems have focused on implementing and optimizing their Electronic Health Records (EHR). But now, with the rise of the healthcare consumer, health systems are looking to digitize more and more of the patient experience.
Learn MoreOver the past decade, hospitals and health systems have focused their digital and IT efforts on implementing and optimizing their EHR. However, the recent rise of patients as health care consumers who have exceedingly higher expectations for convenient digital experiences with their providers, has motivated health systems to focus their digital transformation efforts on digitizing more of the patient experience.
Learn MoreThe pandemic accelerated adoption of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) 1.0 - device-based, home monitoring of only the top 5% of patients at-risk, such as for congestive heart failure. However, the rise of patients as digital savvy patients as healthcare consumers has sparked a paradigm shift to digital care for everyone, and not just the top 5%.
Learn MoreAs digital patient apps skyrocket in popularity with the rise of remote care solutions due to COVID-19, hospitals and health systems are racing to implement these digital solutions to deliver high quality care more conveniently.
Learn MoreWith International Women’s Day upon us, we want to take some time to reflect on the importance of prioritizing building an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity.
Learn MoreRecently, Baystate Health hosted a webinar called, "Technology to Enhance the Cardiac Surgery Patient Experience" featuring Dr. Daniel Engelman, Medical Director of Heart, Vascular & Critical Units and ERAS Cardiac Society President, and Cheryl Crisafi, Cardiac Surgery Care Coordinator Nurse and ERAS Cardiac Society Clinical Coordinator.
Learn MoreWith Valentine’s Day upon us, we thought it would be a good time to explore why leading hospitals and health systems are falling head over heels for digital patient engagement. Let’s face it: as healthcare consumerism continues to gain momentum, expectations are growing among patients for digital engagement as part of their overall healthcare experience.
Learn MoreA recent study on the “Long-term Results from Prospectively Collected Patient-Reported Outcomes in Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Using Mobile Health Technology” presented at the 2021 ERAS USA Annual Congress by Atrium Health’s Division of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery discusses the benefits of using Digital Patient Engagement technology, such as SeamlessMD, to collect Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) for patients undergoing Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery.
Learn MoreWe are excited to announce that Dr. Joshua Liu, CEO of SeamlessMD, was recently invited to present at Epic’s 2021 App Orchard Conference on how health systems are integrating SeamlessMD with their EHR to deliver FHIR-integrated, patient engagement & remote monitoring technology.
Learn MoreCurrently, many healthcare organizations are seeking innovative technology solutions to help combat the surgical backlog due to COVID-19, while also increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare delivery in Ontario. Evidence suggests that the use of Surgical Remote Monitoring technology, such as SeamlessMD, has been proven to increase same-day surgeries and reduce hospital length of stay (LOS), readmission rates, and ED visits.
Learn MoreDr. Joshua Liu, CEO of SeamlessMD recently appeared on the Canadian Healthcare Lessons in Leadership & Life - Interview Series podcast hosted by Shiyen Shu to share lessons he’s learned while building SeamlessMD.
Learn MoreRecently, SeamlessMD CEO Joshua Liu, MD, was invited as a guest speaker on ReBoot Health podcast where he shared how SeamlessMD started, some early wins, and the role of peer-reviewed evidence in supporting your venture.
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