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Telemedicine, enabled with responsible AI, can improve the patient experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the integration of virtual care has become pivotal in reshaping patient experiences. What aspects of a hospital's or health system's patient experience can telemedicine touch? How exactly can telehealth improve these aspects of the patient experience?

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Rush Memorial's virtual ICU reduces transfers, boosts patient experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Physicians and nurses were only able to provide ICU care on a part-time basis. THE PROBLEM This was something staff was looking into even before COVID, as they were thinking about what was best for their patients and their families when it comes to being admitted to the hospital.

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Nurses Hacking for Health, Addressing Burnout, Workplace Violence, and AI

Health Populi

Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.” health system. health system.

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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll

Health Populi

Nurses rank highest among various factors in the U.S. Further substantiation for nurses’ topping this poll of excellent care is that Gallup found historic low confidence in the U.S. ” Such is the present world of nurses and nursing in the U.S., health system among Americans earlier this year in a July study.

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Virtual care requires leadership change as nursing shortage looms

Mobi Health News

Experts shared insights into change leadership and management strategies, with a focus on mindset shifts and care model modifications that can boost patient experience and safety.

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New efforts try to balance nurse staffing ratios with access to care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It's National Nurses Week 2024 , and it's time to celebrate the more than 5 million RNs nationwide who are so essential to care delivery. But overshadowing the celebration are many challenges impacting the nursing workforce. Feds, states take up nurse staffing The past four years have been especially tough on nurses, of course.

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Lighting the Way to Efficient Patient Care – How Interoperability and Analytics Change the Nurse Call Paradigm

Healthcare IT Today

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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