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Anthony Guerra

Founder & Editor-in-Chief, healthsystemCIO

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Small and rural hospitals were already facing enormous challenges balancing capital and operating needs while dealing with dwindling reimbursement rates. Now with federal programs coming to an end, "it puts the community hospital in a tough situation," said John Gaede of San Juan Regional Medical Center. In this clip from a recent #podcastinterview, he talked about how CIOs can stop the bleeding by increasing efficiency. https://lnkd.in/eyXQsBgP #communityhospitals #ruralhealth #healthcareit #cioleadership

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So, so first of all, you recognizing this as an acute challenge within healthcare, especially the Community Hospital market. So, so I affirm that I agree. So Sky Lakes Medical Center where I recently came from, I know they're facing challenges. We're finishing our budget cycle here at San Juan right now and it's exactly the case balancing the capital needs and the operational needs. And the expense side, so yes, absolutely a challenge. And then the reimbursement doesn't match the increased cost. So I think those are all true statements. And then you, you had one more factor, one more flavor to this and that would be some of the programs that the federal government was putting out there that was really sustaining hospitals coming through the pandemic. Those programs are coming to an end or ended. And so there's this now. You know, when you had millions of dollars that were coming flowing into even Community Hospital markets and it's shut off, when that spicket shut off, that really puts the Community Hospital in a tough situation. So how do we address it from a CIO perspective and from an IT perspective? So you mentioned, one of the words you mentioned was efficiency. I'm going to give you a couple of examples of that, that we're currently working on IT San Juan. So we've hired Premier to come in and help us do an assessment and we're really targeting length of state if we can. And increased our ORS utilization and and due to efficiencies, if we can impact our length of stay and decrease our length of stay, we can drive additional revenue into the organization. And I would argue that IT plays a critical role in that IT plays. So all of those systems, the hands off, the communication, the documentation, each of those pieces play critical roles in driving the efficiency. So again, we mentioned it earlier, Anthony, as people processing. Technology and so especially if you're, if you're looking at patient flow from admission to discharge, if you're trying to decrease your, your length of stay, all of those transition points involve communication. And those are our systems that IT provides. All of those systems involve getting clear, concise, accurate information at the right time to the right person in that flow and process. And, and this is where our EHR's really come into play and this is where our technology comes into play. Because it's it's feeding each of those systems.

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