Hospital leaders have made massive investments installing digital systems, while receiving too little value in return. To deliver value, digital technologies need to be connected and integrated within the clinical ecosystem. Siloed technologies create workflow complexity for frontline care teams, who must focus more on dealing with the tools than on the work of patient care. If the problem remains unchecked, complications will negatively affect patient safety and outcomes.

Transforming a digital hospital into a smart hospital

A smart hospital leverages data in near-real time, with digital technologies connected and integrated within the clinical ecosystem. The ‘Smart connected, hospital framework’ white paper provides an overview of a framework that can help you to:

• Create a better work environment and experience for care teams, resulting in a better experience for patients and families
• Connect digital technologies and enable deep interoperability
• Unify healthcare teams and the entire enterprise, tying together systems that are sources of data, information and knowledge

Nurses are Innovators

Professional nursing holds a unique place in the world's healthcare infrastructure. Nurses are the largest work group in the healthcare system and, as we have seen over the past two and a half years, their impact on the safety and wellbeing of communities, nations, and the world is immeasurable.

Nurse Leaders Must Unleash the Power of Nurse Innovation

How do we change the environment nurses work in to support their resilience? One way we do it is by responding to nurses' calls to innovate how we deliver care. That's the focus of the CNO Perspective report on nurse-led innovation. This report lays out six ways to address nurses' call for innovation and improving the work environment:

• Simplify and unify communication workflow
• Connect mobile care teams
• Transform the hospital's systems into nurse extenders
• Innovate care models
• Identify tasks to offload from the nurse
• Empower nurses to manage the patient and family experience