Healthcare IT News July 30, 2024
Reducing patients’ lengths of stay after implementing analytics and care coordination recommendations into its EHR workflows is improving costs and access, its COO says – and also cutting down on nurse burdens.
Nurses feel “empowered” with an integrated patient discharge analytics technology that leverages artificial intelligence to analyze administrative tasks, such as discharge coordination, test ordering and prescriptions, says Jean Halpin, chief operating officer at Grant Medical Center.
It’s been shown recently that many nurses are distrustful of AI. But at the Central Ohio-based health system, nurses are embracing discharge automation – thanks in large part to the discharge planning efficiencies, reduced manual workloads and a better experience on rounds the technology enables, according to Halpin.
By shrinking the discharge...