Nordic Repeats as Best in KLAS for Overall IT Services
Receives A+ for customer loyalty in separate IT Advisory Services report
The Pan-Canadian Interoperability Roadmap: Does it get us where we need to go?
The fragmented nature of care in the Canadian health system has a direct impact on the daily experiences of both patients and physicians. While this fragmentation has its origins in long-standing structural features of the healthcare ecosystem, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated its effects. Without burnout-inducing amounts of extra work, the result is a less […]
Nordic reviewed in KLAS EHR education report with one of the largest breadths of validated offerings
Nordic received 12 of 13 validations in a recent KLAS report on EHR education software and services. Out of the 17 firms evaluated, Nordic emerged as a leader with one of the largest breadths of KLAS-validated offerings.
Designing for Health: Interview with Dr. Srinath Adusumalli
Nudging, behavioral science, and implementation science paired with intentional design have the potential to improve the quality, safety, equity, and experience of healthcare while improving care team well-being, achieving the Quintuple Aim.
Advancing consumer-centric healthcare with a digital front door
Creating a high-quality patient experience is top of mind for most healthcare leaders. Unfortunately, words like inconvenient, inconsistent, inefficient, overwhelming, and confusing are often used by patients to describe their healthcare encounters. From patient access to health equity, the critical issues that affect the care of individuals and communities must be solved. To provide a […]
Nordic Ranked as Eighth Largest Healthcare Management Consulting Firm by Modern Healthcare
MADISON, Wis. – June 28, 2023 – Nordic, a global health and technology consulting company, has been ranked by Modern Healthcare as the eighth largest healthcare management consulting firm in its 2023 survey. This year’s annual survey ranked healthcare management consulting firms based on 2022 revenue from total healthcare consulting fees.
Making Rounds: Optimizing implementations for a stronger business [Podcast]
At this point, most U.S. health systems have adopted the use of electronic health records (EHRs). But there are still circumstances under which a health system might see a new implementation (or de-implementation). And even for the majority of health systems that utilize an EHR, they will inevitably eventually need an upgrade, and will always […]
How to keep the Medicaid unwinding from damaging your hospital operating margins
The healthcare industry is in an era of what Nordic calls the “Big Squeeze:” the confluence of market inflation, high labor expenses, and declining operating margins. KaufmanHall’s Operating Margin Index (Figure 1) highlights the financial crisis hospitals are in today and how these razor thin margins are becoming the new norm in a post-pandemic environment.1 Figure […]
From back office to partners in care: The evolution of hospital information technology departments
Early in my training, I was ushered into the emergency department with a telling of its history. It went like this:
Clinical informatics: Fostering a healthier physician-technology relationship
Headlines screaming “Technology is ruining doctors’ lives” are hard to miss. Despite this, the use of digital tools in healthcare continues to rapidly expand. Gone are the days when the average physician could leave discussion of the design and implementation of health technology in the hands of the few tech-savvy colleagues. Just as physicians need […]