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St. Luke's finds success with its Hospital In Your Home program

Healthcare It News

Luke's Health System, an 11-hospital network based in Kansas City, Missouri, initiated its Hospital In Your Home care model in July 2022 to reduce costs, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience. The HIYH model provided an opportunity to expand capacity without construction of new hospital beds.

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Maimonides Medical Center completes massive digital health initiative in two years

Healthcare It News

It is Brooklyn's largest hospital, with more than 600 beds, 6,500 staff, 43,000 annual inpatient discharges and 600,000 annual outpatient encounters. It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Coping with Crises: Using Telemedicine to Deliver Effective Virtual Critical Care

HIT Consultant

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that telemedicine is essential for keeping the healthcare system running during a crisis. How can virtual critical care keep improving to help providers manage future emergency events? Hospitals without ICUs lack trained critical care clinicians. The results have been transformative.

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Union Budget (2025-26) and comprehensive primary healthcare system: Another lost opportunity?

BMJ Leader

In her speech, the finance minister emphasized that a developed nation is essentially its people, and acknowledged that high-quality, affordable, and comprehensive healthcare is indispensable to development. Not so long ago, the Covid-19 pandemic painfully taught us the significance of a people-centered primary healthcare (PHC) system.

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Remembering The Forgotten Patients

Healthcare Leadership

During this ongoing pandemic, we see the significant impacts on healthcare, including changing methods of delivery. Primary care reduced availability – face-to-face & difficult transition to telehealth for many based on internet access, education, comfort/trust, and fear. Blog post by Joe Babaian. We just have to look.

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Q/A: LookDeep Health CEO Talks AI Adoption & Tackling Clinical Staff Skepticism

HIT Consultant

Despite the myriad ways it can alleviate the burden placed on healthcare professionals, there is still significant staff skepticism to embrace AI. With that in mind, from a clinical perspective, it is most useful to focus on how AI can help clinicians and have an impact on care, in a way that maps to how they already think.

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Patient Flow Challenges Contributing to Provider Burnout

HIT Consultant

Ben Sawyer, VP of Market Development at ABOUT Healthcare, Inc. There has been frequent reporting about the problem of provider workforce shortages within hospitals and health systems and the related burnout experienced when working in high-stress situations during the Covid-19 pandemic. Inefficient Transfers.