IntellaTriage Insights: Our Blog
Hospice and home health regulatory updates, market trends, and after-hours triage strategies.
Between the aging population and the increasing awareness of - and demand for - services that prioritize the end-of-life patient experience, the hospice industry has quadrupled in size since 2000. Traditionally, hospice care has served the terminally ill by improving their quality of life and ensuring maximum comfortability. Triage care has existed equally as long [...]
We are living an in era where people and patients expect solutions now and providers are expected to be looking at ways of improving patient experiences with nurse triage. One major change in healthcare the past 5 years is the expectation for immediate answers and responses from healthcare providers. Whether it's via the telephone, computer [...]
,With nurse triage, between the ever-growing nursing shortage and the heightened demand for convenient healthcare options, the need for an emerging specialty service - nurse-based triage - is more important than ever. Implementing a nurse-first triage service line can help healthcare organizations rise to the challenge and, more importantly, deliver better care. Hospice and home [...]
Nurse Triage and patient engagement strategies affect every patient interaction across the care continuum. Patients that are transferring from one care environment to another, in home care or other care setting that requires constant monitoring, nurse triage can help to enable continuous care 24/7/365 days year. For these patients, an effective on call triage solution [...]
Triage and patient engagement are critical for the future of our healthcare system. Healthcare providers are scrambling to address the ever growing problems of increasing healthcare costs, timely care and managing large populations. The move to providing better, quicker access to care and accompanying technology models solutions are what most care providers see as the [...]
How A Virtual Nurse Triage Service Can Transform Nursing A Virtual Nurse Triage Service represent an ideal way to continue validating the practice of nursing while handling the day-to-day realities of providing care to patients. In order for nursing care to advance, the means of developing rapport and relationships for nursing care interactions need to [...]
A Remote Nurse Triage Service can help providers deliver important medical care when they are needed most and help remove barriers of time, distance, and caregiver availability. When investing in a nurse triage service, healthcare organizations should consider an ROI to better understand how virtual care will impact the quality of care delivered. However, we [...]
As healthcare providers of all types continue to focus on value-based care and Triple Aim initiatives, organizations hope that outsourcing to a Medical Call Center can help support their objectives. Many healthcare organizations create internal call centers, hire specific staff, or put additional pressure on existing staff to be the call center 24/7/365, only to [...]
Medical Call Centers Potentially avoidable hospitalizations are common, costly, and can have meaningful economic impacts. Medical Call Centers, driven by Nurse Only Triage, have been shown to reduce emergency department, ER visits, 911 calls and hospitalization of patients, yet adoption of Nurse driven Medical Call Centers have been limited. This is due to to most [...]
Nurse Triage Telehealth Solutions The healthcare industry is at a crossroads between increased demand on their medical staff, growing patient populations, more chronic care conditions to attend to and a shrinking workforce. They now need to decide whether to put more demand on their current clinical staff, invest in infrastructure (telehealth technology and real estate) [...]
Creating Value In Your Telehealth Strategy Every health care provider in the country is looking for way to become more efficient and impactful when it comes to delivering care. With a growing population and increased demands being placed on every care giver along the lifetime care journey, having a plan to stay relevant, competitive and [...]
Triage nurses are key members of the care team, able to provide many aspects of care in various environments. These environments include hospice, home care, physician groups, accountable care organizations (ACOs) and insurers. In this blog, we break down the role of a triage nurse in each of these different environments and the critical role [...]
