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Facial recognition tech for pain management trialled in Bedfordshire

DigitalHealth

Facial recognition technology for pain management is being trialled at residential and nursing homes in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes.

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Roundup: Altera's anaesthesia solution live at Waikato, Thames Hospitals and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It includes pre-admission testing, IntraOp, acute pain management, post anaesthesia care unit and analytics. It has a two-way audio-visual function that supports on-ground doctors and nurses who are attending to deteriorating patients.

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How Empathy, Education, Communication and the PAST Model transformed Sickle Cell Patient Care

Society for Participatory Medicine

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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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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.

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Update: How empathy, education, communication and the PAST Model transformed Sickle Cell patient care

Society for Participatory Medicine

In 2004, as a staff nurse at Baptist Medical Center South in Florida, I cared for a group of pediatric and adult African-American Sickle Cell patients who would come to my medical-oncology unit for treatment. Five years later, I developed a questionnaire for Sickle Cell patients in hopes of improving their pain management.

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Consider: Aging in a Virtual World

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Let's take a longer look into this virtual world as it relates to care of older adults and consider such offerings as: Virtual caregiver nurse. Last month a startup launched with $35 million of funding to create a virtual caregiver nurse , targeting the labor shortage in private duty care. Virtual dementia tour.

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Understanding the Importance of a Nursing Care Plan for Cancer Diagnosis

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

One crucial tool in the nursing care of cancer patients is the nursing care plan, which serves as a roadmap for providing individualized, evidence-based care. Nurses can better support their patients and optimize their outcomes by understanding the significance of nursing care plans in cancer care.

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