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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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2024

Each year for over a decade, nurses have ranked highest in this survey, representing the most-trusted profession working in America. Now the reputation of nurses, long-highest valued professionals for honesty and ethics, succumb as a profession to the public’s anger about the health system and science “fact.”

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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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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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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 News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Success lies in strategic collaboration between leaders who prioritize new virtual care areas, demonstrate value, and ensure seamless integration with staff, patients and stakeholders. Such a unified approach can ensure sustainable growth and technological integration, delivering effective virtual care experiences to diverse communities.

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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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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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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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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2021

The lawsuit, reportedly the first of its kind leveraged against a nursing […]. On March 15, California prosecutors sued Brookdale Senior Living, accusing the largest chain of senior living communities in the U.S. of manipulating the federal government’s Star ratings system.

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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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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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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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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The degree to which nurse practitioners (NPs) can utilize the full extent of their education and training varies from state to state and practice to practice. According to the AANP , nurse practitioners’ independence varies depending on what state they choose to practice in. Finding the right fit.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

Caregility is embedding virtual support directly into hospital rooms, helping to improve patient monitoring and give overworked nurses some much-needed relief. Mike Brandofino, President & COO and Susan Krisiniak, Chief Nursing Officer at Caregility joined us on-camera at HIMSS25 in Las Vegas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2024

As the population ages and life expectancy increases, delivering high-quality care that achieves optimal health outcomes, enhances patient experiences, and reduces costs is essential for the future of healthcare in the U.S. We are also bringing back the house call.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2024

for trust/honesty as nurses, doctors, and pharmacists). identifying the top 3 occupations in the U.S.

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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The simplicity of the app’s interface and the seamless call experience were standout features. Nurses spend less time coordinating phone or video calls manually, as the app streamlines the process. And the app enhances patient satisfaction, which improves hospital ratings and attracts more patients.

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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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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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

Now I’ll share some of my early takes on how each of these could play out at 2025 HIMSS’s featured innovations and announcements.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

"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.

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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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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

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

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

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 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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