Clinical Process Outsourcing: The Future of Healthcare
The U.S. is expected to need 1.2 million additional registered nurses by 2030 and the healthcare industry anticipates a struggle to fill those roles. Some of those struggles are compounded [...]
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Benefits of Outsourcing Revenue Cycle Management
Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) affects all aspects of client health care delivery. When RCM is not optimized, there can be issues that impact financial outcomes, clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, and/or [...]
Nurse Triage Best Practices
As the demand for nurses increases, it can become increasingly difficult to find nurses for nurse triage programs, which typically require extensive clinical experience, often in emergency room and/or critical [...]
Shearwater Health Announces Life Sciences Strategic Advisory Board
Shearwater Health, a global leader in clinical process outsourcing solutions, today announced the creation of a Life Sciences Advisory Board to guide and support growth in new markets, deepening Shearwater's [...]
The Key to Effective Utilization Management: Better Patient Care, Reduced Cost
Utilization management is commonly assumed to be a strategy payers implement to reduce healthcare cost. Although successful UM programs do result in reduced cost of claims, the focus of an [...]
3 Best Practices of a Successful Utilization Management Program
Effective utilization management programs are based on providing the right patient care at the right time. Outlined below are the 3 best practices employed by the most successful UM programs. [...]
3 Things You Need to Know About Nurse Bullying
Nurses eat their young. Chances are, you’ve heard this phrase before. And if you’re a nurse, you’ve not only heard this phrase, but you’ve probably seen it play out [...]
The COVID-19 Vaccine and Immigration – What You Need to Know
As of October 1, the CDC is requiring that all nurses that are going to an embassy interview have the COVID-19 vaccine. All foreign nationals must submit proof of the [...]
7 Considerations When Choosing the Best Health Care BPO Partner
Outsourcing clinical workflows to offshore partners is becoming increasingly popular and is highly cost-effective. But there are challenges that come with outsourcing. More than 500,000 registered nurses are expected to [...]
How Foreign Clinicians Improve U.S. Healthcare
If more nurses and other healthcare workers leave the profession, what happens to patients? The difficulty in retaining healthcare workers during a prolonged nursing shortage keeps this question top of [...]
Shearwater Health Adds Two New Members to Leadership Team
To support continued strong demand from the healthcare markets we serve to expand the size and impact of clinical teams, we are thrilled to announce two new additions to the [...]
Five Ways to Conquer Time Management as a Nurse
While you may have mastered time management in nursing school, the day-to-day of being a nurse in a hospital is an entirely new challenge. Not only are you constantly pulled [...]
Understanding Direct Contracting Entities (DCE): Another Acronym, Another Opportunity
Toward the end of 2020 CMS announced its new model around Direct Contracting Entities (DCE) which begins its performance year on April 1, 2021. The new payment model aims to [...]