IntellaTriage Insights: Our Blog
Hospice and home health regulatory updates, market trends, and after-hours triage strategies.
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 essential members of healthcare teams, delivering critical care across various settings. These settings include hospice, home care, physician groups, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), and insurance companies. Triage nurses' specialized skills ensure patients receive timely, appropriate care, enhancing overall healthcare experiences. Triage in Hospice Care Hospice care is a highly specialized service for [...]
The home health space, along with the entire healthcare ecosystem, is in the midst of the greatest staffing shortage the industry has seen in decades, if not ever. With issues like nurse burnout, turnover and compassion fatigue reaching historical highs, providers need a way to overcome these challenges and recruit and retain top-level staff. In [...]
Nurse triage comes in many shapes and sizes, but at its core, this specialized service utilizes highly trained registered nurses to help lighten and manage a healthcare organization’s call load. Acting as the first line of defense, these nurses provide tremendous support to staff nurses - particularly on-call nurses - and, in turn, ease the [...]
When patients get discharged after a hospital visit, it can be difficult for them to follow or remember discharge instructions. This can lead to higher readmission rates, longer recovery times and decreased patient satisfaction. To solve this problem, patient engagement and post discharge follow up, when employed correctly, can reduce readmissions and close gaps in [...]
Nurse Triage Telephone triage has been around for over 50 years, but it has never been more critical to providing quality care and outcomes as it is today. Today, just about every healthcare organization in the country is dedicated to providing the best care possible when the patient needs it. Having a dedicated RN caring [...]
Telehealth and Telemedicine Solutions Are Redefining The Traditional Medical Call Center If your are searching for ways to deliver more progressive 24/7 virtual care and cut costs while still offering high-quality, on-demand access to licensed nurse triage it’s time to rethink the traditional telehealth and telemedicine solutions as well as the old medical call center [...]
When Is A Medical Call Center Necessary? To attain both business and patient care goals, today's physician groups, hospitals, hospices, ACOs and home care organizations need to deliver compassionate care that offers value, quality when the patients demand it. This new patient demand we are witnessing in healthcare is putting a newly developed strain on [...]
Medical Call Centers and Medical Answering Services Are Not The Answer According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services the average person in the United States spends about $10,000 per year on medical care. And with the increasing population moving into the Medicaid enrollment age the growing need for healthcare workers continues to escalate [...]
