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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Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2023

Thammasat University Hospital is embarking on a digital transformation of its elderly care service. The hospital signed a memorandum of understanding with NEC Thailand for the development of a digital platform to digitise all records and treatment plans at Thammasat Thammarak Center.

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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

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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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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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

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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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

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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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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HIT Consultant

MARCH 4, 2024

Jim Parobek, President at OhioHealth Marion General Hospital What You Should Know: – OhioHealth Marion General Hospital today announced the appointment of Jim Parobek as its new president, effective March 4th, 2024. In this role, he spearheaded operational improvements and strategic planning for growth.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Then, there are other companies that are doing rehabilitation programs. If you've looked at the news over the past six months, there's a financial strain on hospitals because of the fact they're paying more for clinicians to fill gaps. And I think sometimes the variety of offerings can create confusion.

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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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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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 13, 2024

For example, what might begin at a primary care providers (PCP) office may escalate to a hospital stay, followed by a rehabilitation center. Challenges arise when, for instance, a rehabilitation or recovery center in a small townmay not have the same level of equipment as a larger hospital.

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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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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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Home Health Care

MAY 31, 2024

Choice Health at Home and Resilient Healthcare have formed a partnership that will give the former access to digital health technologies and hospital-at-home capabilities. Meanwhile, Tyler, Texas-based Choice Health at Home is a home health, hospice, palliative care, rehabilitation and home care services provider.

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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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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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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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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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 11, 2024

These expenses cover surgeries, prosthetic devices, rehabilitation and long-term care, and not all expenses are covered by insurance, making it critical to find cost-effective solutions. Moreover, women and individuals from lower-income backgrounds often experience longer wait times for prosthetics and rehabilitation services.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

"To protect our staff and patients who are in the hospital or in our clinics, we use telehealth to care for those suspected to have COVID-19 or who have COVID-19 symptoms without bringing them into the office and unnecessarily exposing others to the virus," she added.

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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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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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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. This alternative is rehabilitation conducted at home. Contessas proprietary technology, designed to coordinate home-based hospital care, made this system possible.

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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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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2022

"Without the utilization of telehealth, patients arriving at an emergency department often have long wait times before meeting with an available physician, creating a strain on social workers and other members of the behavioral healthcare teams inside hospitals," said Dr. Eric C.

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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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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

"Needle procedures can be very stressful for children of all ages," Dr. David Seo, senior vice president and chief information and digital officer for Nicklaus Children’s Health System, told South Florida Hospital News in July. Evelyn Chan, CEO and co-founder, said in the statement.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 31, 2022

WVU Medicine's goal was to enhance its telemedicine capabilities so that all the organization's providers – physicians, APPs, therapists, registered dietitians, rehabilitative therapy staff and audiologists – could still connect with their patients and provide outstanding clinical care in the safest manner possible.

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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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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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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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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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