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Telehealth can increase nurse workloads, study shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A study published in the Western Journal of Nursing Research found that patients using at-home monitoring systems for blood glucose and blood pressure levels received almost twice as many "nursing activities" as patients who received usual care. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Remote therapeutic monitoring reduces readmissions, academic research shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"With OPAT, an infusion company ships the antibiotic bags and supplies to the patient once a week and, depending on the patient's insurance plan, they receive either a once-weekly visit from a home health nurse or they go to an infusion clinic once a week to get their intravenous access dressing changed and safety labs performed."

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OneStep Secures $36M to Pioneer Gait as the Sixth Vital Sign

Healthcare IT Today

AI-Powered Digital Care Platform Revolutionizes Healthcare by Providing Continuous, Real-Life Mobility Insights to Improve Patient Outcomes and Quality of Life OneStep , an innovator in digital healthcare, announced $36 million in funding to advance its smartphone-based motion analysis technology.

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Baptist Health is making virtual nursing work, and gaining big ROI

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Nurses have been in high demand for years, and especially since the pandemic. As baby boomers continue to age, the demand for bedside nursing continues to increase. "We tried to build our model around the notion that each patient will now have two nurses coordinating their care."

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Burnout, Tele-Health, and Accessibility: How to Manage the Expectation of a 24-Hour Workday

Speaker: Keith Carlson — BSN, RN, NC-BC, Host of The Nurse Keith Podcast

In this webinar with Nurse Keith Carlson, we will address: Burnout prevention through SWOT analysis and compassionate self-assessment. The expectation of a 24-hour workday is unhealthy and intolerable for hard-working physicians and RNs, even as patients need more out of the world of 21st-century medicine.

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Newer primary care disrupters constrain already limited supply of clinical providers, new analysis finds

FierceHealthIT

For health systems, hospitals and medical groups, competition for the shrinking pool of nurses and doctors will intensify, according to a new analysis. . | As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained.

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Stronger nurse staffing could have saved 'thousands' of lives during COVID, study finds

FierceHealthIT

COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals with fewer nursing resources prior to and during the early pandemic were significantly less likely to survive their illness, a recent study found. |

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