Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This not only bridges the gap between empathy and technology but goes beyond mere observation, offering a tech-assisted safety net that enhances the overall patient experience. The patient experience has always been a top concern, but health systems constantly grapple with barriers like limited time, funds, and resources.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Virtual nursing is gaining significant momentum as an effective way to redesign and redistribute nursing workload. Virtual models decrease the burden on nurses delivering direct bedside patient care and leverages nurses that want to continue practicing but may not be able to practice at the bedside by extending their nursing careers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

No hospital or health system is immune from the challenges of the nationwide nursing shortage. As organizations look for ways to reduce the administrative burden on nurses and improve engagement and satisfaction, virtual nursing is one consideration. What is the national nursing shortage like today?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2023

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. An aging nurse workforce nearing retirement and student capacity limits in nurse education programs are putting additional pressure on nurse staffing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2023

Virtual nursing has been getting an increasing amount of attention in healthcare, especially with telemedicine entering the mainstream during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. Baptist Health has a successful virtual nursing program up and running, as does Providence. For more on virtual nursing, click here and here and here.)

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

health care employment since 2001, today accounting for twice as many staff as physicians and nurses. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Consider just the line item of “customer and patient services,” and one of all of our least-favorite patient experiences: the dreaded call center.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jim Larrison, Co-Founder & CCO at Firstup Three years after the start of the pandemic, nurses are beyond burnt out. Despite being hailed as “healthcare heroes,” nurses feel overworked, underpaid and under-appreciated. According to a recent survey by Jarrard Inc., In the same Jarrad, Inc.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020. . “Improves resource allocation for staff” speaks to the crisis issue of clinician burnout. Burnout (translated through anxiety, stress, depression, and suicidality) was already a challenge for U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

The topline of this year’s annual Gallup Poll into honesty and ethics of professions finds nurses sustaining their reign as the top trusted profession in America. Engineers rank second this year after nurses, edging ahead of doctors and pharmacists who typically have ranked 2nd and 3rd each year in the past decade.

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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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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 8, 2024

Patient experience monitoring company Press Ganey has taken its data integration partnership with Epic a step further, unveiling Monday an additional collaboration focused on nursing-related safety | Indicators and outcomes logged in the EHR platform will be pulled into Press Ganey's National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators, which is used (..)

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

doctors and nurses alike, are considering leaving their current role in the next two to three years. That 1 in 2 clinicians is significantly greater than the global 37% of physicians and nurses thinking about leaving their roles in the next 3 years, according to the report Clinician of the Future 2023 from Elsevier.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

Deloitte calculated another way to measure the ROI of patient delight by looking at hospitals’ financial performance, finding that those providers who scored more highly on patient experience yielded better financial outcomes — highly correlated to patient-nurse engagement.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Top-line, Accenture points to four pillars on which the pharma industry can “reinvent its relevance,” as the report title suggests: To express greater empathy, understanding the patient experience of delaying treatment, financial impacts, and mental health challenges the pandemic has caused.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

” Health Populi’s Hot Points : “Self-care is the new healthcare,” Monigle’s latest report on Humanizing Brand Experience, Volume 6, health care edition , called out. Discussing the firm’s latest research into patient experience, the study of 3,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This last chart illustrates that patients differentiate between doctors and nurses on one hand, and the macro healthcare system on the other — the point being that most patient-consumers in the U.S. Nurses garner more favorability among U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2022

Utilizing telehealth technology helps alleviate overburdened and short-staffed clinicians as much as it helps them care for their patients. Telehealth solutions also can be used to share knowledge from experienced nurses. Telehealth also can be used for routine activities like giving a patient their discharge instructions.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

that people — both patients and the health care workforce — feel less safe, discussed in Safety in Healthcare 2024 from Press Ganey. It anchors all experiences — for patients and the workforce,” the report summarizes. “Safety is the foundation of healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2023

One way to alleviate the burden on healthcare workers and potentially improve the patient experience and outcomes is remote patient monitoring. How can advances in remote patient monitoring have significant benefits for patients and providers with improved medical care and patient outcomes? by 2034.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2024

Though less than 37% of healthcare workers trust AI in healthcare, 85% believe AI can improve the patient experience and 77% say AI can solve the labor shortage, according to a Carta Healthcare survey. Virtual patient observation vendor Collette Health appointed Dr. Christine Gall as Chief Nursing Officer.

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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 News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

"It was important to us that the implementation of a telehealth/RPM program would provide the best patient experience," said Dr. Lance M. "As an organization, we are focused on the patient and provider experience, so a user-friendly platform was a necessity. " and "Is the equipment easy to use?"

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2021

"Developing clinical implementation knowledge for community dwelling individuals who experience [multiple chronic conditions] in relation to the effectiveness, cost, cost-effectiveness, and the patient experience will be crucial to realizing the promise and potential of telehealth," wrote researchers in the study.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Thus, Philips asserts that health care professionals are becoming “true digital collaborators,” seeing positive impacts on the way they and their patients experience health care. The second chart details the key barriers preventing clinicians from sharing data with patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

" The other value proposition with the telemedicine vendor, in addition to the physician support they provided, was the nursing component of their service offering, he added. " Then there is the patient experience. How has the tele-ICU model been received by Valley Health patients and their families?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He is scheduled to speak at the HIMSS24 Global Conference & Exhibition in a session entitled "Digital Care at Home That Improves Clinical and Patient Outcomes." "Our session will highlight that team structure will be important to first capture billing for the care rendered and elevate the patient experience and outcomes.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

health consumers is with the health care system industry segments like hospitals, insurance companies, and pharma — as patients differentiate between the “system” and the “people” working in it. The erosion in trust among U.S.

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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 News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“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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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

That patient must manage many clinical and lifestyle workflows through one 24-hour day — for example, measuring blood glucose levels, tracking blood pressure and activity/exercise, and communicating with a nurse practitioner, health coach, or doctor’s office as well as receiving advice or support from clinical team members.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Be kind to your local health care providers; support their community initiatives (see previous bullet point), and ask your local hospital(s) what you or your organization can do to help the impending provider shortage (nurses, doctors).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

The company says athenaTelehealth "leverages existing patient communication channels, including email and text message based on patient preferences, and delivers telehealth instructions and a seamless patient experience."

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

She was sitting in a closed-door room with a complement of medical directors and legal staff who, in her words, “had never walked a step in patients’ shoes,” yet they are denying claims, making these life-and-death decisions. Stacy was fighting for home nursing services for Emmett. “I That would be, collectively, a “no.”.

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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

JUNE 9, 2023

Providers continuously pushed themselves to invest in new tools and solutions — with one overarching aim — to enhance the patient experience. Lacking a centralized platform adds to the administrative overhead — overwhelming care providers and frustrating patients. But a digital tool does not always map to a functional solution.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

FYI, Press Ganey, a leading health care patient experience organization, has created an impressive library of resources addressing the pandemic, linked here.]. Thus, Press Ganey asserts, “patients’ trust in their health care is intertwined with caregivers’ trust in their organizations.” Press Ganey asks.

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