Experience Sparks Innovation in Technology
While participating in the Clinician Leader Executive program, Nimita Varga, clinical services manager, Optum Hospice Pharmacy Services, discovered a way to potentially improve care and increase efficiency by harnessing technology to alert clinicians to patients’ lab results and status changes in real time. Varga’s project involved eliminating operational, bypass-related inefficiencies. “Bypass is when a patient’s plan of care is changed without the clinician’s knowledge,” says Varga.
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