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Improving Patient Care Through Integrated Marketing Automation

Healthcare Nov 8, 2018 By Walter Groszewski

It has been an exciting couple of months. I attended my first Dreamforce. It was an incredible experience to see all the innovation being driven in the Healthcare Industry. Following the conference, my colleague, John Turner, published an overview of the Dreamforce Marketing Keynote on the Silverline blog. The overarching theme of the keynote was the empowerment of consumers and how they are dealing with having more choices than ever before. Following that, I was…
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Team Schedule Visibility for Tracking Medical Device Procedures

CalendarAnything Oct 25, 2018 By Scott Thomas

Learn how this medical device organization took a product need to Silverline and created new possibilities for all CalendarAnything users.

Care Management on Health Cloud: Bariatric Surgery Journey

Healthcare Sep 26, 2018 By Jim Rogers

Silverline believes in taking a patient journey approach to Weight Loss/Bariatric Surgery. Weight Loss/Bariatric Surgery is a growing use case within healthcare organizations as the US population struggles with obesity. Weight loss has significant health benefits and can reduce or eliminate the impact of multiple chronic diseases including diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, obstructive sleep apnea, and joint pain. The journey may start with a morbid obesity diagnosis, but often times it starts with a person…
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Gain Valuable Insight from Silverline on Provider Trends at Dreamforce

Healthcare Sep 18, 2018 By Jim Rogers

Dreamforce 2018 is around the corner, and the Silverline Healthcare Practice team is ready to address some of the most pressing concerns in today’s healthcare provider environment. Schedule a meeting in the Silverline Lounge to connect with the team to discuss how those challenges can be addressed with Silverline’s Patient Engagement Center solution. Here’s an overview of some of the priority areas the Patient Engagement Center addresses. Healthcare Provider: Patient Access Patient Access is the…
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Patient Access on Health Cloud: Appointment Scheduling

Healthcare By Jim Rogers

Scheduling clinical appointments can be a tough challenge for hospitals, practices, and clinics. From multiple scheduling systems to the need for self-service options, healthcare organizations struggle to find the right mix of staffing, workflow, and service options to keep patients within their network and connect them with the services they need. Silverline’s Scheduling Accelerator can address both centralized scheduling models and support self-scheduling via Salesforce Communities. Utilizing an integration into one or more EHR’s or…
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Care Management on Health Cloud: Managing Gaps in Care

Healthcare Sep 17, 2018 By Jim Rogers

According to the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), “the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is a tool used by more than 90 percent of America’s health plans to measure performance on important dimensions of care and service. Altogether, HEDIS consists of 92 measures across 6 domains of care. Because so many plans collect HEDIS data, and because the measures are so specifically defined, HEDIS makes it possible to compare the performance of…
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Silverline’s Healthcare Practice Team is Headed to Dreamforce

Healthcare Sep 12, 2018 By Matt Gretczko

Silverline’s Healthcare Practice Team: Industry Experts in Delivering Salesforce Solutions Silverline’s Healthcare Practice Team is headed to Dreamforce bringing a depth and breadth of industry knowledge and experience that drives our industry-leading solutions. Combined, Silverline’s Healthcare Practice Team has over 50 years of experience. This expertise allows us to bring highly viable and relevant solutions, delivering immediate, measurable business results. The lines between healthcare subsegments continue to blur, and Silverline’s solutions and accelerators are well…
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Patient Engagement Center & Active Referral Management

Active Referral Management & Patient Engagement Center

Healthcare Sep 5, 2018 By Jim Rogers

Referral Management in Healthcare is a hot topic. Terms like leakage, care continuity, and network integrity are tossed around with little regard for the patient being referred. Silverline believes the right approach to patient referral management is developing an Active Referral Management Program. Let’s take a look at some alarming statistics that indicate the need for active referral management: 46% of faxed referrals never result in a scheduled appointment 55% of specialist visits are unnecessary…
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Care Management on Health Cloud: Nurse Triage

Healthcare Aug 30, 2018 By Jim Rogers

Healthcare organizations have been performing telephonic nurse triage for decades. Traditionally, it has been a loss leader for a healthcare organization designed to raise awareness within the community and provide a service to consumers that, hopefully, raises awareness about the healthcare organization. However, as the healthcare reimbursement model has transitioned from fee for service to fee for value, organizations are realizing the value of engaging at-risk patients, prior to an urgent care or emergency department…
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Provider Network Management & Patient Engagement Center

Healthcare Aug 23, 2018 By Jim Rogers

Creating and defining your provider network is a critical first step in managing patients and navigating them within your healthcare system. Whether you are building a new clinically integrated network (CIN) for payer contracting, standing up a new accountable care organization (ACO), or want to manage referrals from primary care to specialty care and services within your healthcare system. The successful result of this is two-fold: Create a continuity of care for your patients to…
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