Workflow Innovation for Remote Patient Monitoring
The growth of wearable devices has brought great potential for improved, more proactive healthcare, especially in the area of sensor-enabled remote patient monitoring (RPM). According to research, remote patient management services and tools are expected to reach over 70 million U.S. patients by 2025. The challenge is that activating the data needed for effective RPM […]
Utilization Management at Shearwater Health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-GBbsqKzZQ&t=10s Utilization Management is an invaluable resource in handling time and reducing management costs in the healthcare space. When a nurse has proper training in Utilization Management, they are equipped to evaluate the appropriateness of care, and ensure decisions are made properly. Shearwater Health is committed to ensuring our nurses have proper training in Utilization […]
Shearwater Nurse Receives Daisy Award
At Shearwater Health, we are blessed to have a team of amazing nurses from all around the world who make an impact daily. While we are proud of each one of our nurses, it’s always a special feeling when one receives recognition for their passion and efforts in caring for others. We’re excited to announce […]
Shearwater Scholars
At Shearwater Health we are always looking for new ways to give back to the community. Our strategy is built on establishing long-term partnerships that value our solutions and identify opportunities to continue leveraging our capabilities to solve their human capital challenges. In 2022, Shearwater launched the Shearwater Scholars Program to ” give back” to […]
Shearwater Health Tackles the Nurse Staffing Crisis
The nursing crisis continues to affect the healthcare industry and will only worsen in years to come. As the number of active clinicians continues to shrink, the number of baby boomers needing care continues to rise, contributing to an unprecedented nursing shortage. As an International Clinical Process Outsourcing (CPO) organization and a provider of International […]
HMA Webinar: Overcoming Clinical Labor Shortages
This quarter Shearwater Health partnered with The Health Management Academy to host a virtual roundtable discussion on the topic of overcoming clinical labor shortages. Other panel participants included members from Integris Health, Memorial Hermann Health System, and Henry Ford Health System. Melissa Lacy (EVP, Quality & Performance) was a panelist for the webinar where she […]
Improving Patient Care with Coding
The healthcare industry has been no stranger to shortages of qualified workers over the few years, and the coding workforce is no exception to this trend. There is a need for more medical coders across the U.S., making it increasingly more challenging to find skilled and credentialed coders who can execute the specific type of […]
Health Insurance Claims Analysis
A current trend in the Healthcare industry is the increasing volume of inpatient claims denied by payers based on lack of medical necessity. While Medicare offers detailed payer categories compared to other providers, they also reject the highest number of shares. However, from 2021 to 2022, the inpatient claim denial saw a rise of 18.5% […]
2023 Healthcare Trends Forecast
The healthcare industry is constantly evolving, especially in the wake of COVID-19 and constant technological advancements. At Shearwater Health, we strive to revolutionize healthcare systems that align with our mission to “improve healthcare outcomes globally.” With the start of a new year, trends are emerging that could potentially impact the healthcare industry in 2023. From […]
Improving Healthcare with Virtual Case Management
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 […]
