In collaboration with health systems nationwide, AVIA is redefining the future of acute care by evaluating infrastructures, reimagining care models, and streamlining workflows.
With our expertise, we bring actionable insights to advance acute care—spanning from smart rooms and virtual nursing to centralized care centers—while equipping leaders with value measurement models that showcase ROI and secure necessary investments.
AVIA congregated over 30 health systems at our Acute Care of the Future symposium to accelerate collective planning of acute care. We examined the intersection of advanced technology and innovative care strategies, with rich dialogue to tackle this huge effort revealing five crucial insights for sustainable, high-impact transformation:
Secure executive buy-in, ensuring strategies tackle critical issues like access, throughput, and care team burnout
AVIA supports health systems in all areas, from planning to execution, to accelerate results and drive towards the Acute Care of the Future. Many of our Members are using smart room technologies, creating virtual nursing programs, and planning for centralized virtual care centers.
A Strategic Guide to Fast-Tracking Virtual Nursing Programs
With a 34% growth in virtual nursing programs since 2022, scaling these initiatives has become essential—and challenging. Many AVIA Members struggle to advance from pilot programs to fully integrated, enterprise-level solutions, facing unique hurdles at each step.
To support the AVIA Network, AVIA developed the Virtual Nursing Navigator—a tailored playbook that accelerates decision-making and strategic rollout.
The Navigator equips leadership with the critical data and insights needed to make informed, impactful decisions, ensuring that your virtual nursing program is not only successful but also sustainable.
Built in collaboration with health system leaders in a sprint of about four weeks, AVIA Virtual Nursing Navigator not only accelerates virtual nursing rollout but also provides a scalable framework and governance for expanding into additional care settings, ensuring long-term success and adaptability. This work provides a customized approach to delivering care that drives results for patients, staff, and the bottom line.
United Regional Health Care System collaborated with AVIA to launch a virtual nursing program, starting with the emergency department (ED). Using AVIA’s Virtual Nursing Navigator as a guide, they developed a tailored, step-by-step roadmap to address urgent challenges in patient flow and care transitions, while laying a foundation for future expansion.
Handling over 67,000 ED visits annually, the health system prioritized the ED to pilot virtual nursing, aiming to leverage proven strategies for faster, system-wide adoption. By first aligning on strategy, they set the stage for sustainable, high-impact outcomes in acute care.
“We are well-prepared because our work with AVIA has provided valuable insight into our vendor’s capabilities, which greatly factored in during implementation.”
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Regional Health System
On-site walkthrough to identify workflow challenges and virtual nursing use cases
Stakeholders aligned on current needs, a future vision, and top-priority use cases
Facilitated session to finalize workflows and prepare for virtual nursing integration
