With the nursing shortage and the overcrowding in hospitals, Virtual Case Management (VCM) is a valuable option for minimizing challenges that the healthcare industry faces. Hospitals today are understaffed, which leads to inefficiency in patient flow. Often this results in extended patient stays, compromise to the quality of care, and higher readmission rates. These factors stand in the way of reducing healthcare costs while providing the highest quality of care. Virtual Case Management seeks to alleviate these burdens placed on hospitals and hospital workers.
Proper workflow must be in place at hospitals to shorten the length of a patient’s stay. When case managers are overwhelmed by patient volumes, this can cause longer patient stays and can delay proper patient discharge. Oftentimes, many patients are left to linger in hospitals awaiting release or are discharged prematurely, resulting in readmission. Implementing virtual case managers in hospitals can help optimize workflow and keep workloads manageable for case managers.
At Shearwater Health, we have expertise in proper work-flow design, which allows us to establish optimal workflow within a hospital. We can effectively guide our clients to touch more patients without disrupting staff. With efficiency in mind, we can implement systems that positively impact the length of stay. Thus, case managers can prioritize work matters, leading to less turnover and higher work satisfaction. Additionally, Shearwater Health is committed to complex clinical work. Where technology and U.S. based companies can be more expensive in providing virtual case managers, Shearwater Health can offer cost-effective virtual case solutions while also providing top quality care.
About Shearwater Health
Because of a shortage of clinicians, it’s difficult to scale healthcare organizations. Shearwater Health provides teams of remote and onsite clinicians that expand the size and impact of clinical teams, so that clients can focus on internal teams practicing at the peak of their license. From bedside to back-office, there are over 4,000 Shearwater clinicians solving medical and administrative problems every hour of every day all over the world. Shearwater combines clinical expertise with Six Sigma process excellence and RPA technology to improve healthcare outcomes. www.shearwaterhealth.com
