Healthcare It News

AUGUST 1, 2022

Continuity and access to care for patients living with chronic diseases or going through cardiac and orthopedic rehabilitation are one of the most challenging areas in healthcare. Faced with these challenges, Essen Health Care turned to health IT vendor WizeCare's enterprise-wide virtual rehabilitation and remote monitoring technology.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 18, 2024

Nurses of Mass General Brigham’s hospital-at-home program have voted to unionize, and the clinicians at the health system’s home care segment are hoping to follow suit. On May 16, 80 of the health system’s home-at-hospital nurses voted to join the Massachusetts Nurse Association (MSA). The efforts to unionize first started in February.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

These visits were completed from among the 36 pediatric specialty services, including adolescent medicine, cardiology, cognitive behavioral therapy, ears-nose-and-throat, epilepsy, general surgery, infectious disease, orthopedic surgery, radiology, rehabilitative medicine, social work, urology, urgent care, and weight management.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 14, 2024

Fortis Healthcare, a publicly listed private hospital network from India, has introduced a new mental health service enabled by artificial intelligence. The service will provide telemental health services, alongside residential in-patient care that covers acute psychiatry, addiction treatment, and rehabilitation.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2024

The senior care sector, particularly in the realm of short-term rehabilitation, is witnessing a transformative wave thanks to these cutting-edge applications. This integration spans from virtual reality exercises to wearable sensors that meticulously track a patient’s rehabilitation progress.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2023

Digital patient pathways had been deployed in over 20 speciality areas and at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and SA Dental. Since then, it has reduced workload pressure on front-line hospital staff while providing convenient care access to patients.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 1, 2024

The new study is from researchers with the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at University of Washington. “Of Source: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at University of Washington Traditional Medicare covers over 58 million beneficiaries on an annual basis, costing nearly $17 billion in 2021. fewer nursing visits, 2.7%

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2024

The Indonesian Ministry of Health, through the Center for Data and Information Technology, has recently announced the results of the 2023 digital maturity assessment for provincial and district/city health services, hospitals, and health service facilities. out of 5.00. out of 5.00.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 2, 2024

WellSpan Surgery & Rehabilitation Hospital Pilot Results A pilot program at WellSpan Surgery & Rehabilitation Hospital yielded impressive results: a 39% reduction in patient falls and a 25% improvement in nurse well-being. These gains showcase the potential of Artisight to revolutionize healthcare delivery.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

A special balance test originally used by NASA in its space programmes has been adopted by an Abu Dhabi hospital to help determine the cause of prolonged or recurrent dizziness. NASA continues to utilise EquiTest for the routine evaluation and balance rehabilitation of its astronauts. ” ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 6, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS SMHS, which provides hospital and community-based public health care services in southern metropolitan Perth, started the LifeFit SurgFit in 2020-2021 as a "holistic approach" to preparing patients for surgery.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 13, 2022

The surgical pre-rehabilitation programme dubbed My Prehab was developed in partnership with Health Translation SA, The Hospital Research Foundation, and healthcare tech company Personify Care. Last year, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital , also a part of CALHN, tapped Personify Care to help digitise its Direct Access Colonoscopy programme.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

Health Journeys targets specific behavioral health challenges that military service members face, including anxiety, sleep deprivation, burnout, chronic pain, depression, anger, PTSD, grief, addiction, traumatic brain injury and injury rehabilitation.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

hospitals’ operating margins went negative in January 2021 after turning north for the first time in December 2020 since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the February 2021 Hospital Flash Report from Kaufman Hall, commissioned by AHA, the American Hospitals Association.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

" The pandemic also further reduced access to routine care leading to an increase in preventable complications due to chronic conditions, including emergency room visits, hospitalizations and overall healthcare costs, she added. School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science (UMPT). " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE.

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KHN

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

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Meditech

MARCH 26, 2024

Hospitals often transfer patients out for a higher level of care or to rehabilitation providers. That’s what makes the healthcare industry special. Teamwork is necessary from organization to organization. You see it on the frontline every day. These transitions must be seamless for the benefit of the patient.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 26, 2024

Part of that conversation with hospital and health system partners includes convincing case managers that patients will be better suited at home. Our value prop to hospitals when promoting palliative care is, ‘We want to continue these difficult conversations in a less stressful environment.’” And then what happens?

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HIT Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

What You Should Know: CareSource , a nonprofit managed care organization, today announced a $1M investment in Augment Therapy , a digital health company enhancing rehabilitative healthcare and exercise through immersive and gamified technology.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 26, 2022

Specifically, the partnership will allow Memorial Hermann to deliver acute hospital care, post-hospitalization skilled nursing care and palliative care services in the home setting. The company’s hospital care at home model has been able to lower readmission rates by 44%, and decrease hospital length of stay by 35%.

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Meditech

JULY 26, 2023

As Juneau County’s sole full-service hospital, Mile Bluff serves an estimated 55,000 residents in an eight-county region. From providers to patients, human connection leads the care experience, and the Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston, WI embraces that philosophy.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

There is mixed evidence about whether hospital mergers improve quality. 2022) investigates the impact of a recent hospital merger on quality in New York. The merging hospitals were described as follows: NYU Langone Health (NYULH) is an urban academic medical system. A recent paper by Wang et al.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2021

hospitals, with total annual costs of treatment and rehabilitation estimated at $62 billion. Early prediction of at-risk patients that require emergency department evaluation and hospitalization can dramatically improve outcomes. Studies show that sepsis is the leading cause of death in U.S.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This includes denying access to nursing homes, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term acute care hospitals. The report today puts an exclamation point on what we’ve been saying for a long time,” Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) President and CEO Chip Kahn said in a statement. Founded in 1966, the Washington D.C.-based

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Meditech

AUGUST 3, 2021

At Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital , we provide an array of services that include highly coordinated rehabilitation and medical care as well as comprehensive interdisciplinary therapies. Because the care we deliver is so specialized, we often find ourselves thinking outside the box.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 1, 2022

On Friday, May 27, 2022, CMS posted updates to QSO-21-03-Hospitals/CAHs. On July 29, 2020, HHS published updated guidance for hospital COVID-19 reporting: [link]. The guidance states that hospitals should report specified information at least once daily through one of the prescribed methods described below. Facilities to Report.

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Home Health Care

JULY 15, 2022

PAC settings include home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), in-patient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) and long-term care hospitals (LTCHs). The American Hospital Association (AHA) is among the health care groups that have come out swinging against the unified PAC payment model draft. PAC setting types.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

It also helps healthcare organizations improve the profitability of their rehabilitation services by expanding access to care, standardizing care to avoid surgical complications, improving adherence, enhancing patient experience, lowering costs and reducing referral leakage.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 7, 2022

What You Should Know: – Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Massachusetts General Hospital have created an unsupervised physical rehabilitation system called MuscleRehab. Virtual Reality Driven Physical Rehabilitation.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Built on advanced technology with a growing library of VR-based activities and experiences, the REAL Immersive System platform is comprised of two product solutions: REAL y-Series for clinical rehabilitation and REAL i-Series for wellness. The need for innovative rehabilitation therapy has never been greater.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In December, the program went live at the South Australian Medical Imaging (SAMI) Nuclear Medicine Theranostics Service of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH) in Adelaide. The service's previous digital survey solution relied on patients to complete the survey while in the clinic waiting room using a hospital-supplied device.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Serving veterans in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico from its 70 offices, the organization develops training and career services, works on accessibility in public buildings and spaces and provides health and rehabilitation opportunities. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2022

Personify Care has recently supported several digital transformation initiatives across hospitals and health facilities in Australia by implementing its digital pathways. One of them, the Central Adelaide Local Health Network , was able to launch a surgical pre-rehabilitation programme, which helps patients become fit for surgery.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 18, 2022

Erie County Medical Center Corporation , a public benefit corporation that operates a hospital, Erie County Medical Center, located in Buffalo, New York, failed to timely provide an individual with a complete copy of his medical records.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 10, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is providing a virtual training program that will review the updated guidance for the IRF-PAI 4.0 and the LCDS 5.0 for providers in the IRF and LTCH settings. Part 1 of the Virtual Training Program is now available.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 14, 2024

It recently published research around hospital-to-home transitions. Disparities between utilization in MA members and traditional Medicare beneficiaries have been confirmed elsewhere, including in a study published by researchers with the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at University of Washington earlier this year.

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