On November 10-12, 2022, Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) leaders, advocates and practitioners gathered in Washington DC for the 5th Annual Congress of the ERAS® USA Society. If you were unable to make it, we’ve got you covered! Today we share our five big takeaways from ERAS USA’s 2022 Annual Congress...
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The American College of Surgeons’ Clinical Congress is the premier annual event for surgeon leaders to share innovative new research, best practices and technology in surgery to improve patient care. At the 2022 event, many surgeon leaders highlighted how Digital Patient Engagement and Remote Patient Monitoring is gradually becoming the standard of care for delivering the best surgical outcomes and patient experience.
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Health systems are facing unprecedented challenges: an on-going pandemic, increasing shifts to value-based care, rising consumer expectations and growing financial constraints. In early October 2022...
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Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC) is a 375-bed acute care hospital serving over 250,000 residents across Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has further increased pressure on hospitals to reduce LOS, so that they can meet the demands of both COVID-19 hospitalizations and pre-existing patient needs (e.g. surgeries). However, with limited resources and increasing staff burnout, organizations must find innovative ways to reduce LOS without increasing work for providers.
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Recently, SeamlessMD’s CEO Dr. Joshua Liu was featured on “SciSection,” a podcast initiative that aims to communicate important insights from experts within the healthcare industry and STEM communities to a broader audience in a simpler way. Featured on global platforms such as iHeartRadio, the team of journalists consists of members hailing from the University of Toronto, McMaster University, University of California Los Angeles, University of Guelph, York University, and more.
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Recently, the Colorectal team at Stanford published a study revealing “Engagement and Adherence with a Web-Based Prehabilitation Program for Patients Awaiting Abdominal Colorectal Surgery.”
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Health Sciences North (HSN) recently celebrated a milestone: having enrolled more than 1,000 patients onto SeamlessMD supporting 10 different types of surgeries including Orthopaedics, Breast Cancer, Open Heart Surgery, ICD/Pacemaker, Colorectal and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) surgery.
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We are proud to announce that our very own Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder and CEO at SeamlessMD, has received recognition as the 2021 Digital Health Executive of the Year by Digital Health Canada. This prestigious award is presented to individuals “whose outstanding contributions as a leader have helped advance Digital Health or Virtual Health in Canada.”
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Recently, William Osler Health System was featured in Hospital News’ November edition of their newsletter. The article outlined several ways in which the hospital has improved the delivery of patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic by primarily leveraging the use of technology.
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Since 2017, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System has offered SeamlessMD to its patients undergoing a variety of surgeries, including for Colorectal Surgery (patients needing an ileostomy included). Recently, the team published a study revealing “Ileostomy Patients Using Patient Engagement Technology Experience Decreased Length of Stay.”
Learn MoreRecently, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC) held a webinar sharing best practices they use to successfully incorporate Surgical Remote Monitoring (SeamlessMD) into their clinical team's workflow, achieving increased same-day discharges, ↓ 41% ED visits & ↓ 4% Readmissions. In this post, we've summarized 3 key learnings from the TBRHSC experience.
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Bluewater Health recently published this press release highlighting the launch of SeamlessMD to virtually guide patients undergoing Total Joint Replacement Surgery through pre-surgical preparation through post-surgical recovery.
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For many years, Digital Patient Engagement and Remote Monitoring solutions have been a point of interest in the healthcare industry to more effectively engage patients and improve the delivery of care.
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We are thrilled to read a piece written by our partners Cheryl Crisafi, ERAS Cardiac Clinical Coordinator, and Dr. Daniel Engelman, Medical Director of the Heart and Vascular Center at Baystate Health, in the most recent issue of the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Cardiac Newsletter, discussing the value of Digital Patient Engagement platforms (DPEPs) and how they can improve health outcomes.
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Remote monitoring solutions certainly disrupt traditional healthcare delivery, but as evidenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, they provide an effective replacement for in-person interaction between patients and healthcare providers.
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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for remote monitoring solutions is at an all-time high and it is clear that this will continue to be the case in a post-pandemic world. As such, healthcare organizations must ensure that staff are trained to deliver a seamless experience that is comparable to an in-person visit.
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WBTV news, one of North Carolina’s news divisions, recently published a news segment highlighting our innovation with Atrium Health designed to help tackle the opioid crisis.
Learn MoreThis study on the “Disparities in Perioperative Use of Patient Engagement Technologies - Not All Use is Equal,” published in the Annals of Surgery by Lauren Theiss, M.D. discusses the association of patient-level characteristics on the use of patient engagement technology during the perioperative period.
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In a post-pandemic health economy, healthcare organizations will continue to rely on remote monitoring solutions to increase access to care, reduce surgical backlogs, and improve patient outcomes.
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In an effort to reduce the surgical backlog caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare organizations are seeking innovative technology solutions. An effective Surgical Remote Monitoring platform can lessen the backlog by reducing hospital length of stay, readmissions, ED visits, and by ultimately ensuring patients get the right care outside of the hospital.
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While the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the wide-scale adoption of remote monitoring solutions, this technology is expected to continue to play a significant role beyond the pandemic. To address these rising consumer expectations, healthcare organizations are now incorporating remote monitoring solutions into their long-term strategy for improved patient outcomes.
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With increasing patient expectations for digital care since the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare providers have considered implementing a Surgical Remote Monitoring program to increase patient access to care.
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, health care providers worldwide have been racing to implement remote monitoring platforms that extend patient access to surgical care beyond the bounds of the hospital while also minimizing in-person visits.
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While Surgical Remote Monitoring technology has been around long before COVID-19, the pandemic has undeniably increased the demand for these platforms. Healthcare providers are now more inclined to embrace this technology to increase access to care, reduce surgical backlogs, and improve patient outcomes.
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Fee-for-service payment models in healthcare reward quantity over quality of medical services. This has led to a shift to value-based care, such as bundled payment models, that incentivize providers to achieve better health outcomes at lower costs.
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COVID-19 cases overwhelmed hospitals throughout the pandemic, leading to the suspension of a wide range of non-emergency surgeries to spare beds for these patients. As a result, the surgery backlog has dramatically increased and there are growing concerns on how to catch up efficiently.
Learn MoreRecently, the Ontario Health Team (OHT) produced a Virtual Engagement Series in collaboration with Ontario Health (OH) and partners in the Central Program of Supports, for healthcare teams in Ontario to learn, ask questions, and share successes or challenges about areas of common interest.
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Big congratulations to the Stanford University Urology team led by Dr. Jay B. Shah, who recently presented at the 2020 Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) Annual Meeting on using SeamlessMD to aid in delivering ERAS protocols for patients undergoing radical cystectomy, while mitigating risks from in-person visits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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