Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive uptick in telehealth use around the country, hard-hit nursing homes also turned to the tool to try and keep patients safe. The aim, they said, was to examine the consequences of the rapid telehealth rollout in nursing homes. Saved organizational resources. Improved access to care.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to Equifax, poor billing practices like manual processing cause doctors in the US to lose an estimated $125 billion each year. For instance, a patient walks into a doctor’s clinic with severe pain in the abdomen. The nurse will ask about the patient’s symptoms, conduct initial tests, and send him/her to the doctor.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

"Nurses, doctors, and hospital staff working in extremely harsh and dangerous settings have reported that their stress was greatly reduced through this system," Kim shared. It has six points: technological value, data, operational efficiency, medical service quality, user experience, and post-implementation.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Singapore General Hospital has started training its nurses in IV cannulation using VR technology. The module comprises a virtual patient avatar with which nurses can practice talking; a 3D-printed hand which mimics the texture of human skin; and a pressure sensor glove that gauges the pressure of cannulation.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 1, 2022

The widespread implementation of EMRs has allowed collaboration between doctors, reduced medical errors, and created the data points required for analytics which will provide an in-road for artificial intelligence work in the future. Addressing this situation requires a holistic approach.” Find out more about these streams here.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Doctors and nurses are happy. It's not just the doctors, nurses, caregivers. We use our data warehouse every day to identify trends in disease state management or trends in clinical outcomes so we can create best practice models for our caregivers, both on the nursing side and on the physician side.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2025

Amid a growing measles outbreak in west Texas and New Mexico, many doctors and nurses are fielding questions from patients about an infectious diseases they have never seen, until now.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Most consumers using digital health devices felt more trust in the technology when coupled with doctors’ office reviews — another lens on the importance of trust-equity between patients and physicians. Finally, doctors are trusted data stewards for patients — something we’ve appreciated since the advent of HIPAA.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 30, 2024

Patients at Crescent Regional Hospital can schedule a non-touch visit with their doctor or any range of medical specialists from the Dallas area, or anywhere in the world, through the magic of spatial computing. Doctors could save up to 20 hours each week, Holoconnects contended.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 23, 2025

However, achieving this requires a dedicated, multidisciplinary team that includes nursing, pharmacy, remote monitoring and social work to address real-life barriers to access, affordability and adherence. Boosting adherence by just a few percentage points can lead to significantly fewer hospitalizations and better outcomes.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 18, 2023

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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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The report finds that almost half of all doctors and nurses are eager for physicians to utilize this innovative technology in the future to support their clinical decision-making, further affirming the need to drive a technological shift in healthcare. Interestingly, 45% similarly reported the need to tackle doctor shortages.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Did you really want to leave the house to sit in a doctor's office waiting room? What does the telehealth component look like and how does it fit into the bigger approach? Think about the last time you had a minor illness – such as a cold, sore throat or mild infection. We are also bringing back the house call.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2025

While nursing has ranked top of U.S. adults speak even more assuredly in 2025 that nurses far outrank other professions in America. adults ranked nurses high or very high in the study, followed by 61% of people giving grade-school teachers a high/very high mark. .” according to the latest Gallup Poll. 78% of U.S.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

There has been a public perception that telehealth and virtual care consist solely of having a virtual doctor’s visit when you feel ill or following up on a routine treatment. Telehealth solutions also can be used to share knowledge from experienced nurses. And while that is a part of it, it is not the complete telehealth story.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 17, 2022

It's possible to rekindle the passion of doctors and nurses in providing care, even as many eye an exit, experts said at the HIMSS conference.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

"While much has been reported on doctor and nurse burnout, less attention has been paid to the frontline clinical support staff who have been working tirelessly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure high-quality patient care was maintained," read the report. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 8, 2023

Violence prevents nurses, doctors and other professionals from providing uninterrupted, quality patient care, argues Andrew Thum, the director of nursing workforce operations at Jefferson Health in Philadelphia.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For health systems, hospitals and medical groups, competition for the shrinking pool of nurses and doctors will intensify, according to a new analysis. . | As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Snowdon holds a doctorate in nursing. From a doctor's perspective, "It's hard to really personalize all the information and context and content for every single patient." "From that perspective, it's starting to redefine and rethink care," Snowdon, the panel's moderator, said.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 26, 2024

Not-for-profit aeromedical services provider Royal Flying Doctor Service has introduced what could be the first unmanned virtual medical emergency centre in Australia's outback. Meanwhile, the patient can wait in a secure treatment room before an RFDS aeromedical crew arrives.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2025

1 In the face of these economic headwinds, many doctors have decided to sell their practices. Central Virginia Health Services family nurse practitioner, Jill Richmond, explains, “The innovative AI technology allows me to see many more patients now and focus better on patient care.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Cleveland Clinic, Banner Health and other hospital systems are pausing nonessential procedures, while provider groups issued a joint statement Friday declaring that doctors and nurses are exhausted and heartbroken.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 22, 2024

It ensures patients have medical coverage with a VRGS doctor who can answer their questions and discuss their condition, supported by an on-site nursing staff. The service provides 24-hour virtual medical support, specialty or critical care advice and transport, logistics, and coordination support.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The lack of tenured nurses creates a risk to quality outcomes. The numbers of nurses and doctors coming out of school are on the decline, and many want to work in larger cities where they can maximize the number of patients or disease states they can see. Connectivity is a challenge for some.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

Concurrently, the healthcare workforce is facing significant attrition; approximately 20% of doctors are planning to leave the profession and more than 170,000 healthcare workers departed their roles in 2021, according to JAMA. ", "What doctor can help me with my foot pain?",

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

And I think many are starting to recognize that successful, integrated telehealth solutions are more than just a doctor on a screen – when deployed holistically, they serve as a digital front door to the health system, provide a positive patient and clinician experience, and ultimately improve patient engagement.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2023

are facing an increasing healthcare crisis due to shortages in healthcare providers and facilities, especially as the nursing shortage continues throughout the country. Family members may have to take them to and from appointments or doctors may have to travel to their homes, which can become a burden on family and caretakers.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

While nurses were in short supply before 2020, the coronavirus pandemic and stress on front-line health care workers exacerbated the shortage of nursing staff globally. Whether working in rural America, urban Britain, central Mumbai or suburban Auckland, the nursing profession s in a world of hurt. And this hurts Everyone.

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Healthcare Success

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Their idea was, as a new venture capital-based company, was to deliver sort of house calls through, you know, most of nurse practitioners and PAs, whether it's them or any other model. And let that patient do it in their home community. There's things like that. So you're kind of like fixing the plane while it's flying, right?

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2024

What's more, when doctors are well-informed about their patients, it has the capacity to improve the visit. Doctors are spending more time working in the EHR, and this is contributing to clinician burnout. What are some ways technology can be made better to ensure doctors are more efficient and prescriptive with their time?

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2025

Since then, the model has adapted to offer hospitalized patients an alternative to skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities following their discharge. Initially, Gaspar-Yoo observed fragmentation among providers and a lack of familiarity with the virtual world among geriatricians working in traditional skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Based on a media release, doctors and nurses at Hervey Bay Hospital are being prepared for the Queensland Telestroke Service pilot happening in the coming weeks. Queensland is the remaining Australian state to launch a telestroke service.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 2, 2024

The technology’s potential is fueling an array of investments and innovations in everything from cancer diagnosis to AI nurses. With respect to AI nurses, many believe this application is the only way to ease the industry’s staffing shortages. And with careful deployment, they support the oath of “first, do no harm.”

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 19, 2023

" For example, when a telephone encounter is created, the assigned nurse will be able to use the AI tool to create a response based on the patient's message. The nurse reviews the choices, and then selects the response and adds it to the record with a single click.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

That noise she referred to as having to know when your last colonoscopy was instead of your doctor having that at their fingertips. " He pointed to Banner Health's work with Cerner to improve intake forms and other administrative burdens, "so their nurses can spend more time helping patients and less time documenting.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 17, 2023

Burnout is evident in nursing shortages and doctors reporting that they are spending more than two hours each day doing paperwork, he said. For clinical intelligence, generative AI is very good at summarizing information.

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