Telehealth has emerged as a powerful resource for healthcare providers and hospitals during the pandemic. This article, published in The Hospitalist, offers a summary of government regulations that enabled telehealth expansion and provides an overview of how two health care organizations, Providence St. Joseph Health and Sound Physicians, are employing telehealth services to combat the COVID-19 health care crisis.

In this blog post, learn how Kotter’s Eight Step Process is applicable to healthcare improvement projects so you can successfully implement them.

If you are a hospital administrator or a hospitalist leader, you most likely have an early discharge measure included in your hospitalist team performance scorecard. Despite its prevalence in judging hospitalist team performance, I find this measure to be the most misunderstood and misused. So, before you include an early discharge measure in your scorecard, take time to understand it.

Over the past 10 years, I led and advised more than 100 small and large-scale innovative healthcare projects that focused on improving quality, decreasing cost and enhancing provider experience and efficiency. I want to share practical tips for implementing successful healthcare solutions.

Do you want to solve your hospital’s length of stay (LOS) problems? The key to successful and sustainable improvement is using a disciplined step-by-step approach. Read this article to learn the approach that has been used across more than 100 projects focused on improving clinical quality, cost and operational efficiency.