Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

"While we had invested in an app to deliver this information to patients in written form, most of the pre-surgical information was delivered verbally by doctors, nurses and staff, in addition to a paper packet," she continued. "The verbal repetition was incredibly time-consuming for our clinical staff.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

" In the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center expanded its platform and developed an integrated nurse triage telehealth solution pilot to prevent critical care patients from ending up in the ER. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In 2004, as a staff nurse at Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery, Alabama, I cared for a group of pediatric and adult African-American Sickle Cell patients who would come to my medical-oncology unit for treatment. They would stay a few days, get fluids, and get Phenergan around the clock for nausea, and narcotics for pain.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. Far too often the primary care doctor never learns about these health issues that are addressed at hospitals. It’s beautiful that PCPs can be informed in order to coordinate the care for their patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Or is the device that normally communicates only with the nursing station of Floor 3 suddenly being accessed from a workstation on Floor 7. Watch the interview with Sameer Khanna to learn: How hospital IT leaders can prepare for the 4x increase in the number of connected medical devices that is expected over the next 5 years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

The Australian Private Hospitals Association (APHA) has recently shared that it was advised that the 2024-2025 Budget also introduces temporary Medicare Benefit Schedule (MBS) items for the admission and some subsequent teleconsultation of inpatients in private hospitals.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2025

Great Potential With SAP exiting the HIS market by 2030, hundreds of German and European hospitals must rethink their system landscape. This presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul hospital IT, elevating the quality of care, and boosting process efficiency.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Each interviewee was asked for thoughts in the context of the categories suggested by ChatGPT and any other categories that will improve the work processes for those in the care-related industries – home care, home healthcare, senior living care (including nursing homes), and hospital discharge processes to any of those.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2024

News and Studies The National Institutes of Health’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) launched the Universal Patching and Remediation for Autonomous Defense (UPGRADE) program with $50 million in funding to develop tools for hospital IT teams to enhance cybersecurity measures and combat ransomware.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JULY 16, 2019

Within three days of her initial procedure she was on a ventilator and unable to speak for nearly her entire stay at the hospital. Others started at different hospitals and came to UCSF when it became clear a transplant was their only hope. Nurse Practitioner (NP). NP, PA, Nurses, Fellows. Medical – General.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

"We also had hired a nurse navigator to gather the patient's pre-operative information and make patient calls ahead of time." We've hired more nurse navigators to enable the greater volume. As an ambulatory surgery center, it has to be very intentional about collecting readmission data from the regional hospital.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. I’d like to see organizations apply the same rigor they do to improving the provider experience and patient throughput to enhancing the day-to-day for nursing and support staff.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursing home, community clinic, etc. Somatix works with elderly care facilities across the care continuum (independent living, assisted living, sub-acute short term care, and nursing homes), hospitals (for the use-case of discharged patients), and substance abuse rehab centers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Many stories about hospitals being unable to provide rapid care to patients experiencing medical emergencies and longs delays for others are simply heart-wrenching to hear. Healthcare workers, from doctors and nurses to administrative staff, are often overwhelmed with critical patient care responsibilities and day-to-day operations.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 9, 2014

He was immediately transferred by ambulance to a nearby children’s hospital. She asked the nurse, “How am I going to do this? It was there he learned that he had T1. “I I got really scared,” Kamaal said. “I I was wondering what would happen to me.”. His parents wrestled with their own emotions.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 26, 2018

Zesty for Hospitals It seems incredible, but today, the vast majority of NHS trusts still post paper letters to their patients. In fact, the average UK hospital sends over 1M paper letters to patients each year. Patients are informed of their appointments in a letter and have to call the hospital to make appointment changes.

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HIStalk Interviews

MAY 30, 2018

It’s designed for acute care and affiliated ambulatory facilities of hospitals. It runs on IOS and Android smartphones and is available both on-premise, with servers inside the hospital’s data room, or a cloud offering via our cloud partner, Parallon Technology Solutions. Take Lean thinking and apply it to your workflow.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Pristine is a tech start-up at the forefront of developing Glass apps for surgeons, nurses and anesthesiologists for use before, during and after surgery. With thousands of patients falling ill each year through viruses picked up in hospitals, it is vital that each healthcare professional keeps their hands as clean as possible.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JANUARY 15, 2019

Nurses use the TapCloud Triage Dashboard to efficiently track, monitor and respond to patients requiring an intervention. Nurses can drill down on a specific patient to see how many days since check in, recent events (e.g. Nurses can drill down on a specific patient to see how many days since check in, recent events (e.g.

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American Well

OCTOBER 8, 2015

When we started Avizia, we saw multiple vendors in the marketplace that were creating parts to a solution and they would throw those parts over the fence to the hospital IT department and expect them to put it together. Baird: We’ve developed the first end-to-end telemedicine platform. It’s an extremely flexible solution.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Presently, Ping An Good Doctor has already hired a large volume of highly qualified physicians from the top three hospitals. At the same time, it gives the patient more humane care. Its own physician team exceeds 1000 persons. Its external network of partnering physicians reach nearly 5000 persons.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Doctors and nurses rely on these machines to monitor patient health and to serve as a partner in diagnosis. In the already overstretched world of hospitals, it is no wonder that cyber security is not top of mind for most workers. But it also makes this data an increasingly attractive target for the cybercriminals.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JULY 18, 2019

The nurse last night was worried about metric X and had proactively given her medication Y before she has to {do PT, insert a line, etc.}. Usually that will bring together some combination of doctors, nurse practitioners and others to meet with you and your family in the patient’s room or a conference room. The Family Meeting.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Pristine is a tech start-up at the forefront of developing Glass apps for surgeons, nurses and anesthesiologists for use before, during and after surgery. With thousands of patients falling ill each year through viruses picked up in hospitals, it is vital that each healthcare professional keeps their hands as clean as possible.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 8, 2023

For example, an app might partner with a hospital to offer patients a way to message their doctors and nurses directly. Enhanced collaboration: Clinical messaging apps can help to improve collaboration between different healthcare providers, such as doctors, nurses, and specialists. Subscribe today!

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. We need to refine the Ryan Haight Act to develop a telemedicine registry that can safely prescribe controlled medication virtually.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

To accomplish this, it takes a complete team effort, from device manufacturers to software developers and hospital IT security teams. Moreover, the emphasis in hiring is placed on doctors, nurses, and researchers, not on cybersecurity experts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In addition, heart failure is one of the most expensive conditions to manage, leading to high healthcare costs due to frequent hospitalizations and complex treatment regimens​. Alexandria Foley, RN, is vice president of nursing and care delivery at Brook Health, an AI-powered RPM company. But there is hope in the form of health IT.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 7, 2022

The ER is the worst place in the world from a consumer standpoint: you have to drive there, it’s around the four walls of a hospital, it’s a huge wait, and it’s often really expensive. I am an emergency medicine physician’s assistant and my co-founder is an emergency nurse paramedic.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The company has 54 “extensively visited” on-site health centers, “which are staffed with doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners and other health professionals,” CEO Jamie Dimon wrote in his most recent annual letter to shareholders. Amazon’s healthcare dabbling stretches back to at least 2016.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, they can coordinate home health services, such as physical therapy and nursing care, and help patients make appointments for follow-up visits with their doctor. Post-Operative Care After Discharge After being discharged from the hospital, it’s important to continue with your postoperative care at home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

"Rather, our patients, physicians and nurses have grown accustomed to digital health over years of incremental and foundational work, and all came rushing to make this the new normal." "We experienced first-hand that this was never about a pivot," he related.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

With 185 hospitals, it takes effort for HCA to maintain good quality health data across their entire organization. As part of the sepsis project, HCA worked to streamline nurse documentation because some of the information needed for sepsis detection was collected manually by nurses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2022

But if you look at a hospital, it's the place with the best resources for clinical care in our country, for example, the staff, providers, equipment and technology. In a hospital, you hit the "nurse call button" if you're not feeling well or something isn't right. Healthcare is hard.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Even though most people survive a bout of DKA in the hospital, it can lead to a host of other medical problems. days of hospitalization (or additional hospitalization) to treat. Also, fewer than half of all hospitals maintain the recommended staff levels to provide one nurse per 300 beds.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Even though most people survive a bout of DKA in the hospital, it can lead to a host of other medical problems. days of hospitalization (or additional hospitalization) to treat. Also, fewer than half of all hospitals maintain the recommended staff levels to provide one nurse per 300 beds.

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