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How To Improve Patient Care and Satisfaction in Healthcare

Malka Stromer

The healthcare sector is currently facing significant challenges, with increasing wait times and declining patient satisfaction.

As providers, it is more productive to explore ways to enhance our relationship with the healthcare system than focus on the negatives.

Streamline Efficiencies and Deliver Real Results

As the American Nurses Association (ANA) indicated, at the end of the day, getting real results in a prompt fashion is perhaps one of the biggest challenges facing patients in today’s healthcare settings.

“Implementing a more efficient medical administration system is one example of how to improve patient care… Streamlining procedures frees up more time you can allocate toward patient care.”

A prime example of this improvement is the proliferation of point-of-care ultrasound systems (POCUS). Experienced POCUS Professionals can examine patients in real-time, analyzing results from various settings, bypassing many traditional healthcare steps.

This not only reduces administrative burdens and associated costs but also ensures targeted and efficient care. Aeyr’s POCUS Pro system facilitates collaboration between sonographers and experts, delivering personalized and accurate information promptly.

The Importance of Evidence-Based Practices

“At the heart of quality patient care is clinical competence. Care must be timely, efficient, and built on evidence-based practices, the ANA stated, and we agree.

At Aeyr, our team comprises credentialed sonographers with extensive clinical and educational experience, complemented by learning design experts specializing in content for complex adult learners. Our sonographers, skilled across various specialties, are trained in our standardized exam assessment method, ensuring reliable and trustworthy feedback. Additionally, Aeyr is accredited by the California Medical Association (CMA) to provide continuing medical education (CMEs) for physicians.

By prioritizing proven technologies and best practices, we ensure that healthcare providers across all sectors, along with their patients, receive the highest level of care. This commitment places their best interests at the forefront, fostering trust and confidence in our solutions.

Why Putting Patients (as People) First Matters

A little empathy and understanding goes a long way. In today’s fast-paced and frenetic world, we might find ourselves being a bit more hurried, or in a rush, than we might have been in decades previous. This reality has also wound its way into many healthcare institutions, with less than desirable results.

Dr. Ted A. James, writing for Harvard Medical School, underscored this point:

“What is one of the most important things patients look for in health care? If you said ‘empathy,’ you would not be wrong. Patients report that empathy and compassion are just as important as training and experience when it comes to choosing a physician. Patients also report that they would change doctors if they felt their current physician was uncaring,” he wrote.

Given its primacy as a major factor in delivering humane and effective healthcare, the “human factor” between medical staff and their patients must be central to any visit.

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Malka Stromer Malka is a registered diagnostic medical sonographer whose clinical skills were fostered at the University Health Network and Mount Sinai's Center of Excellence in Obstetrical Ultrasound, in Toronto, Canada. She has spent close to 20 years of her career sharing her enthusiasm for sonography as a professor and educator. Malka is an experienced speaker, author, and innovator, with a mission to decrease healthcare costs and improve patient outcomes through competency-based education and peer mentorship.