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Lehigh Valley streamlines ED triage with virtual docs and nurses

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Virtual nurse and virtual doc triage To make this happen, the health system implemented a virtual nurse and virtual physician triage program designed to get patients moving through the ED process sooner rather than later. The tests included physicians, nurses, technicians, scribes, EKG techs, etc.,

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How virtual nursing can help solve many workforce shortage woes

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Hospitals across the nation are facing workforce challenges with nurse staffing shortages posing one of the biggest threats to care delivery. More than 100,000 nurses exited the U.S. The American Nurses Association projects that the nursing shortage could reach up to 1.13 million additional nurses needed by 2028.

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Application period for FCC Connected Care Pilot Program now open

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The Connected Care Pilot Program, first formalized on March 31, 2020, is open to nonprofit and public eligible healthcare providers nationwide. Provider broadband data connections. Other connected care information services. Tpen for the next 30 days, through December 7. WHY IT MATTERS. Certain network equipment.

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Patient apps improve healthcare delivery

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Connected care through the Memorial Healthcare System's mobile application gets patients engaged and taking more control of their care, and by feeding data to EHRs, can also help to save nurses time, says Jesus Diaz, director of nursing informatics.

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TigerConnect Acquires Twiage, Enhancing Real-Time EMS to Hospital Communication for Streamlined Emergency Care

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By connecting EMS operations to hospital care teams before a patient arrives, the solution accelerates time to care through the sharing of real-time patient information. About TigerConnect TigerConnect continues to transform healthcare with its comprehensive clinical collaboration platform.

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How leveraging cardiac data via RPM can help overcome many clinical challenges

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Healthcare IT News spoke recently with Julia Strandberg, chief business leader for connected care at Philips, to talk about some of the challenges hospitals and health systems face with patient retention. Open, interoperable systems will eliminate barriers and turn the vast pools of clinical data into actionable insights.

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First connected health service in Malaysia launched

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WHAT IT'S ABOUT The 400-bed hospital joint venture by Ramsay Health Care Australia and Sime Darby Malaysia seeks to "revolutionise" healthcare delivery through its latest service called Connected Care. ON THE RECORD "We want to shift from patients to people, from healthcare to health, from hospital to home.