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How virtual nursing can help solve many workforce shortage woes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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Arizona agency's omnichannel approach to home health includes telehealth and RPM

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Several key factors are reshaping healthcare today, creating new demands on the existing infrastructure and care delivery systems. Whether a home health patient is using RPM alongside virtual check-ins or it's paired with in-home services, RPM ensures they're receiving the right care at the right time – wherever they are.

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While providers make clinical discoveries faster, RPM is shifting to a new care model

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"For example, as more patients request or are assigned RPM care plans, providers are required to expand care coordination staff, typically nurses, or assign larger and larger populations to existing clinicians," he continued. Department of Veterans Affairs' new eight-year, $1.03-billion

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RPM reduces 30-day readmission rates by 50% at Lee Health

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Connected care at-home technologies enable behavior change and empower individuals and clinicians to make informed decisions about healthcare treatment. By using them, providers can enhance patient engagement, allowing for personalized and proactive care management that drives better health outcomes and better care experiences.

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Temple uses $1M of FCC telehealth funding for virtual care platform, tablets and more

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“While telemedicine existed in our health system prior to COVID-19, the adoption of this technology accelerated exponentially due to the pandemic, which unlocked a new level of patient care,” she said. “The main metrics include volume, access, patient experience and total cost of care.”

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#Engage4Health: How Patients Are Morphing Into Healthcare Consumers, for #HIMSS18

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Healthcare providers are the front-line stakeholders who, increasingly, are taking on payment and incentives to help manage individual patient and communities’ health. Patients as Consumers: How Leading Providers are Digitally Transforming Patient Consults | #Engage4Health + #HIMSS18.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

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The greatest health IT learning of 2020 in the face of COVID-19 has been the profound want of patients and clinicians to connect digitally, said Testa of NYU Langone Health. " "2021 will show that digital health from the patient and clinician perspective is so much more than video visits and remote patient monitoring.