Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2024

Of course, with this growth of technology we’ve also seen the growth of burnout and alert fatigue as devices send off warnings that aren’t useful and the volume of alerts that a nurse is getting is overwhelming. They’re right that nurse call data holds the keys to informing the clinical decision-making process.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2025

In 2025, McKinsey projects the United States will face a critical shortage of 200,000 to 450,000 nurses available for direct patient care, representing a 10% to 20% shortage in the nursing workforce needed to meet patient demand. Big data and AI will play an increasing role in this. Pharmacy vacancy rates average 4.3%

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2024

With at-home diagnostic tools like blood and urine tests and advanced remote monitoring tools, patients can engage more proactively in their care in collaboration with their care providers, fostering better outcomes for chronic conditions. Equity in healthcare must also take center stage to improve the overall patient experience.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Increased workloads and health risks and the ever-changing dynamics in the workplace are making life more challenging for both nurses and physicians. With all that’s at stake for our healthcare staff members, nurse retention should become a focal point for those in charge of healthcare facilities. Reducing Burnout Among Nurses.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Enhanced Patient Experience: Personalised Care: By understanding a patient's complete health history, clinicians can tailor treatment plans to individual needs, leading to better outcomes and patient satisfaction.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

As a patient moves through the continuum of care, we understand and value that our patients’ experiences are private. One of the most impactful experiences of my career was working with our hospice nurses during the height of COVID. Our hospice nurses overcome this uncomfortableness daily.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Each connected device—from medical IoT (Internet of Things) equipment to the smartphones doctors and nurses use—can serve as a weak spot for cyber criminals to breach organizations’ servers. Endpoint protection is essential for securing the array of devices that healthcare professionals rely on daily.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Telehealth has shown great promise to bridge gaps in the areas of rural health and access to specialized care since Regenstrief researcher-clinicians pioneered a decade ago the value of telephone-based care management delivered by nurses for cancer related pain and depression, said Tachinardi of Regenstrief Institute. " Hospital-at-home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

"It is vital the patient not only understands the information but also retains it and then takes appropriate action. "Now that we are live with the videos, we regularly meet and review analytics reports where we get to see the impact we are having on our patients. "That's an A+ in patient experience.

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Health System CIO

MARCH 27, 2019

No one wants to be audited — especially nurses, who already face a tremendous burden being the front line of patient care. What both nurses and patients needed was a way to facilitate productive conversations, and so University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine has done just that.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

But Mardjuki sees hospitals that use ambient voice solutions choosing to migrate scribes to more direct patient care, which improves the patient experience. Although currently “laser-focused on acute care,” they are planning expansion into hospices, wound care, nursing, and eventually general medicine.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Bonnie Clipper, Founder and CEO of Innovation Advantage, sharing learnings on high-tech and high-touch in nursing; and, Gil Bashe, Chair of Global Health and Purpose at FINN Partners, discussing the growing importance of connected data in health care – think AI, machine learning, and the criticality of breaking down siloes of information.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The digital boards are updated in real-time, accurately reflect patient records, and can be used to support decision making. The nursing station is now called a “health care hub” and coordinates multi-disciplinary teams. Virtual nurses are a key part of the hospital staff.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2024

AI-powered solutions will reduce the overall cost of care and enhance practice efficiency Karie Ryan, Chief Nursing Officer, DNP, MS, RN, CENP at Artisight The future of nursing workflow optimization lies in ambient intelligence that anticipates needs rather than creating additional documentation burdens.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

He’s part of Philips’ leadership team, and as such design informs corporate strategy at the company. The consulting team assesses both patient experience and care pathways, beyond just the historical role of selling medical devices to health care providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

While their increased retirement has been anticipated, the associated timing compounded staffing challenges within the healthcare industry and left leadership seeking solutions. An important aspect of the patient experience is ensuring that patients and loved ones are comfortable and informed throughout the care journey.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 22, 2023

In the demo video below, Rikki Jennings, BSN, RN, CPN, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Zebra , shares about Zebra’s efforts to enable real time health system and that impact on patient experience. This saves the nurse time and gets a quicker response for the patient.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 11, 2025

The way to understand the patient experience is to leverage conversation data. As business and healthcare leaders, if we dont understand whats being said within conversations, then were missing a critical source of intelligence how customers view and experience the healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2022

Along with the evolving technology that changes the patient experience in the exam room, we also talk about how this impacts the clinician experience and things like burnout and staff satisfaction. It’s amazing how the nurse call button can be improved with the right technology and workflows.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2024

For instance, if the patient is just asking for a pillow, the call goes to a technician instead of a nurse. This relieves the nurses of trivial tasks and lets them “practice at the top of their licenses.” Virtual nursing is also easier with seamless communications.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2024

Larry Adams, EVP of Growth at ShiftMed I think health IT leaders really need to think about the healthcare industry and how we’re going to brace innovation and solving the workforce shortages within the nursing strategies itself. In addition, you have nurses and other extended-care staff leaving healthcare in record numbers.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This is where nursing leaders must step in, bridging the gap between clinical excellence and strategic integration. Financing solutions also enhance the patient experience, offering increasingly accessible, personalized, and manageable repayment options that improve satisfaction and payment adherence.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2020

A nurse practitioner (NP) was telling patient advocates how to help patients prepare better for appointments. This article was co-authored by Geri Lynn Baumblatt & Amy Bucher. She explained that many people with high blood pressure (BP) don’t track it before their appointment.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

For example, Central and North West London (CNWL) NHS Foundation Trust deployed AI-powered automation to support its back office functions that kept nurses bogged down with manual paperwork as well as supporting clinical settings.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2022

"Supportive leadership and persistent visionaries decided telemedicine was the solution to this continuously growing problem of too few specialists and pediatric patients with complex healthcare needs scattered and isolated all over rural Kansas and Missouri," she added.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

Many skilled nursing facilities are short-staffed, so patients cannot always transition out of the hospital in a timely manner. At the same time, there simply are not enough nurses and other healthcare providers to care for the people who will need support and resources in the next five to 10 years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Buoy Health AI triage bot True to their mission “Making health care easier, so life can be better”, Banner Health has invested in digital health technologies to support their patient experience. “Our patients commented that the Buoy bot was ‘easy to use’ and they liked not having to log in to use it.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2023

“Everything we do is designed to improve access to health care and health outcomes for polychronic patients by supporting their individual needs in their own homes, transforming the patient experience, especially for those who have been historically underserved.”. cities across 34 states.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Cooper has nearly 10,000 team members, including 1,600 nurses, more than 900 physicians, and 500+ advanced practice providers practicing in more than 75 specialties. The organization may have also incurred $500,000 in labor costs to fill the gap with up to 1,000 travel nurses.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2024

However, more and more evidence suggests that sharing the right information from acute care with post-acute care settings, like Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs), leads to remarkable outcomes that benefit acute care providers, SNFs, and most importantly, the patient. Joseph’s Health. billion dollars for CMS.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

How can we ensure patients’ privacy with all the devices and sensors transmitting data? Let’s explore some of these key questions with two of Dell Technologies’ subject matter experts in these topics, Romina Elias, Healthcare Chief Nursing Information Officer and Jeff Kenkel, Global Chief Technology Officer, Life Sciences and Edge.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2024

We talk a lot about how different AI applications and tools could save us time or how they could improve the patient experience. Additionally, they enable personalized treatment approaches by analyzing individual patient data and tailoring interventions to meet specific needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Combined with the nursing shortage, razor thin margins, the need to reduce hospital readmissions, […]. Our healthcare system is approaching a critical time in which an aging population will bring baby boomers into hospitals and post-acute care facilities in record numbers.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A new study by The Permanente Medical Group (part of Kaiser Permanente) offers confidence that ambient voice transcriptions can save time and improve the patient experience by generating clinical notes about patient visits. This article summarizes the key findings in that study.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

They have more time to improve the patient experience and spend less time making sense of the EHR. They learn to perform a step-by-step process that considers all the important elements from previous records to ensure patient safety and meet organizational needs.

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