Leveraging health system telehealth and informatics infrastructure to create a continuum of services for COVID-19 screening, testing, and treatment.

Objectives: We describe our approach in using health information technology to provide a continuum of services during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. COVID-19 challenges and needs required health systems to rapidly redesign the delivery of care.

Materials And Methods: Our health system deployed 4 COVID-19 telehealth programs and 4 biomedical informatics innovations to screen and care for COVID-19 patients.

The Patient-Centered Discharge-An Electronic Discharge Process Is Associated With Improvements in Quality and Patient Satisfaction.

In this retrospective cohort study, 100 records were randomly selected from the intervention period (April 2012) and the control period (April 2011). The hospital's institutional database was queried to compare mortality, length of stay, and patient satisfaction, in the year prior to and the year after the integration of the new process. A chart review was performed to determine if the reengineered process was associated with an improvement in documentation.

Intervening to promote early initiation of breastfeeding in the LDR.

Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of an interventional protocol for the early initiation of breastfeeding that would remove barriers in the labor, delivery, recovery (LDR) unit.

Study Design And Methods: Descriptive design using 100 postpartum mothers who were interviewed before discharge at a large university hospital in the south-central United States. Descriptive statistics were used for analysis.