Patient Experience - NRC Health

January 14, 2020 |

Radically simplified feedback: Real-time results at a large health system

Alerted to emerging trends of consumerism in the marketplace, leadership at a large academic health system in the Midwest devoted their attention to improving patient satisfaction. To guide their efforts, they solicited patient feedback. With more than a dozen hospitals in their organization, however, the feedback process quickly became complex. →

January 9, 2020 |

Children’s National Hospital uses robocalls to curb readmissions

This past March, Children's National Hospital [TAG] joined forces with NRC Health for a way to increase its phone calls post-discharge and avoid preventable readmissions. The hospital implemented a 6 month pilot program using robocalls to ask parents how their children are doing since being discharged. →

January 3, 2020 |

Don’t just prepare for consumerism—anticipate it. NRC Health can show you how.

The digital consumerism revolution has touched every segment of the economy. As readers of this blog know, its effects on patient decision-making are both well-documented and profound.Those effects are also moving at a blistering pace. It’s no longer enough for health systems to prepare for the industry’s consumerist future; that future has already arrived. Health organizations must instead anticipate the consumerist changes to come. →

December 23, 2019 |

A Year in Review: The Top 5 Articles of 2019

2019 has marked yet another year of the technological revolution, with the workforce becoming more and more dependent on technological innovations, and much of it becoming automated. The force of consumer preferences is becoming even more powerful as industries customize experiences to meet consumer expectations, and healthcare continues to be disrupted by more convenient and high-tech options like Amazon and MinuteClinics.NRC Health strives to maintain a focused and helpful narrative to enable you, our readers, to stay ahead of... →

December 18, 2019 |

‘From customer-aware to customer-led’ — Data-driven employee engagement at Community Health Network

"We're on a journey to become a customer-obsessed company, and NRC Health's voice-of-the-customer platform is a key tool we're using to do that," said Ron Thieme, CHN's VP and chief experience officer. "We need to be intimately familiar with our customers, and NRC Health's solutions are critical for getting us there." →