You may have noticed a few changes around the Ensocare website in the last couple months. That’s because we’ve been working hard to ensure we’re doing everything we can to help healthcare organizations manage the growing numbers of patients with complex care needs and keep focus on providing the best patient... Read More
Common wisdom suggests, when a person comes to the Emergency Room, they do so because they need emergency care. It’s up to nurses, physicians and available specialists and staff to provide the appropriate treatment as quickly as possible, with follow-up care tended to after the fact. But while this need to provide... Read More
by Mary Kay Thalken, RN, MBA in Case Management, blog, Care Management
You all know the old adage: what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But here’s a secret I’ll let you in on: That sentiment definitely does not hold true for CMSA. Not by a long shot. Read More
by Mary Kay Thalken, RN, MBA in Case Management, blog, Care Management
When Ensocare relocated its headquarters to Omaha, Nebraska in 2012, Sherry Pickett was among the original four people hired. Since then, she has provided the very best of service to Ensocare’s customers. In a short seven years, Sherry progressed from Customer Support Specialist level I to level II and also took on... Read More
Does care management design mean more “boots on the ground” are needed immediately—or not? Interestingly, many key transformation officers believe the answer to this question is a definitive “yes.” A few years ago, about 97 percent of health system leaders we surveyed were either already investing in or planning to... Read More
A little over a year ago, I took to this platform to discuss the basics of HL7’s fast healthcare interoperability resources, or FHIR. I extolled the virtues of these standards and how they were transforming healthcare’s reliance on disparate systems, creating a set of APIs that varying healthcare providers could use... Read More
Though every healthcare leader likely has a care management or case management resource today, our current resources were not designed for managing populations under risk-based contracts. In fact, they were mostly created under a fee-for-service system and, as a result, addressed only specific needs of an individual... Read More
I look forward to the national American Case Management Association (ACMA) National Conference every spring. This year, the ACMA celebrated its 20th anniversary in Seattle, Washington April 14-17, hosting four full days of education, networking and fun. Read More
One of the biggest trending topics within the healthcare sphere is something that, if all goes well, can be completely invisible. And if something goes wrong, it has the potential to create a crisis-level situation for your organization. I’m talking, of course, about cybersecurity. As healthcare continues to evolve,... Read More
“Siri, what’s the weather like today?” “Google, play me my workout playlist.” “Alexa, initiate hip replacement surgery.” One of those commands is not like the others. While it may be quite some time before we’re able to have highly coordinated control of robotic surgical systems via Smart speakers, we’re already... Read More
by Luis Castillo in Healthcare IT, Healthcare Technology Solutions, blog
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