Connected Care: Improving the Health Care Ecosystem
Sponsored by: 
Today, it’s essential to provide nurses and other front-line caregivers with the tools to support clinical workflows while reducing cognitive burden associated with documentation and navigating digital health devices and platforms.
Simplifying clinical workflows and making caregivers’ jobs easier by deploying technologies like smart beds that can sense patients’ conditions and unified mobile communications and nurse call platforms can go a long way toward shaping whether nurses will be able to work smarter, not harder.
Amid this shifting landscape, health care leaders are challenged to deliver a more connected, interoperable digital health ecosystem to collect information, improve nursing communications, and provide more time for patient engagement.
Download the Episode Abstract >>
Key Take Aways
Here is what our experts had to say:
Technology should enhance the nursing team workflow, not create additional work.
Synchronize, automate and enable technology to connect to the electronic record.
Strive to reduce steps and duplicative efforts for the care team.
Speakers
Jordan Sylvester
VP
Care Solutions at Baxter
Cyndy Banik Dunlap, DNP, RN
VP of Nursing/CNO
Ascension Providence
Robyn Begley, DNP, RN
Chief Executive Officer
AONL
Fuel Your Transformation
Health care leaders are more in need of innovative solutions than ever before. The AHA Transformation Talks series of video discussions among health care thought leaders offers insights to help hospital and health systems navigate health care’s new, disruptive environment and prepare for what’s next. Each 10-minute video in this series focuses on a transformational topic explored by the 2021 AHA Environmental Scan and SHSMD's Futurescan 2021-2026: Health Care Trends and Implications. Explore the videos on this page for fresh ideas and best practices to guide you through this time of tremendous upheaval.
Abstract Overview
Read this abstract to learn about how current demands are impacting the health care workforce.
AHA Resources
The AHA Value Initiative website includes case studies and other resources on how hospitals are driving value in their communities.
Video Series Developed in Collaboration with:
