Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Acurio Health's soon-to-open private paediatric and maternity facility The George Centre in southwest Sydney will be equipped with nurse call solutions by health IT provider Rauland Australia. It also desired its IP-based architecture that offers different integration benefits. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

But there are some challenges with VR: High costs of VR equipment and infrastructure Ensuring ease of use for patients and families unfamiliar with VR technology Balancing VR integration without overcomplicating the core functionality Q. It was introduced gradually to ensure staff training and workflow integration.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 15, 2025

The tele-psychiatrists connect with patients through Epic's integrated video platform, ensuring a seamless experience for providers and patients. "While the technical aspects are important, what really makes this work is treating it as an integrated care program rather than just a technology implementation," he added.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Two years ago, the Gippsland Health Alliance , comprised of 11 hospitals and 6 bush nursing centres, completed its deployment of an EMR system provided by Altera Digital Health. The "interoperable, multi-facility digital health platform" will be delivered over five years by ASX-listed Alcidion under a A$4.5 million ($2.9

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 1, 2022

However, attention has shifted from the patient to the EMR system, with nurses spending 20-40% of their time on the EMR platform. As hospitals become more automated, with the addition of digital tools and food delivery robots, patient expectations are increasingly creating a new issue of alarm fatigue for nursing staff.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Andrew's Nursing Home. Latest remote patient monitoring integrations at India's Apollo Hospitals Apollo Hospitals in Seshadripuram and Bannerghatta Road, both in Bangalore, have introduced remote patient monitoring inside and beyond their facilities. Luke's ElderCare Rivervale Centre.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The new Footscray Hospital in Melbourne's west is adopting a nurse call solution from Hills Health Solutions, the digital health arm of ASX-listed company Hills Limited. million) contract to supply and install its Nurse Call platform in more than 500 beds in the upcoming hospital. Hills Limited won the estimated A$7 million ($4.7

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Demonstrating benefits The panel also discussed challenges and best practices in hospital and health data integration and sharing. In SNUBH, for example, an AI-powered continuous blood glucose monitoring system called Pasta has been recently integrated into the EMR system, conforming to HL7 FHIR standards. CDSS [must be] mandatory.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2025

integrations, private practices can let AI handle the administrative workload while physicians can better focus on delivering exceptional patient care. ” 4 healow Genie is a first-of-its-kind, fully EHR-integrated AI-powered contact center solution. Thanks to eClinicalWorks technologies and innovative healow and Sunoh.ai

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Ali Morin, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at symplr As technological innovations, AI and challenges in healthcare continue to grow, it’s imperative for healthcare leaders – especially clinical ones – to be digitally competent and step into the forefront of change with skills and expertise to support a better future.

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 22, 2024

Nurses will play an integral role as virtual care becomes a more widely adopted care model. But while virtual nursing care has the potential to enhance efficiency and reduce costs, it’s not without its challenges

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 11, 2025

Precise, Personalized Parkinson’s Treatment The integration of wearable technology in Parkinson’s care fosters a new era of patient-centered care. The potential for predictive analytics and early intervention could drastically reduce the severity of symptoms and slow the disease’s progression.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 2, 2024

Forty-two programs training physicians, nurses and other clinicians will integrate geriatric care training into their primary care programs. The Biden administration has awarded $206.3 million of funding to clinician training programs to bolster the nation’s geriatrics care workforce.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Although seemingly basic, these environmental controls are often unavailable to patients, leading to frequent nurse call button triggers, causing frustration and diverting staff from direct patient care, he noted. "Effective integration is essential as it ensures staff can effortlessly keep all systems updated.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 6, 2024

It features deep device integration, artificial intelligence, location awareness, video and patient engagement technology – all focused on helping clinicians save steps and make better decisions while providing an excellent patient experience. You told me the hospital will feature deep device integration and artificial intelligence.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 19, 2023

EHR and customer relationship management platforms – like Salesforce, which announced its Einstein GPT for CRM in early March – are integrating generative AI into their software to allow provider organizations to search and summarize contextual information with natural language searches powered by cloud computing.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2024

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2024

ADHA names nursing adviser The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has appointed Karen Booth as its first chief clinical adviser for nursing. As part of the partnership, Privy's digital signature technology will be integrated into Five Faces' digital front door solution.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Telehealth solutions also can be used to share knowledge from experienced nurses. Telehealth can be used as a learning tool where veteran nurses virtually coach newer nurses through a situation or procedure they are not yet comfortable with doing on their own.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2024

At the University of California Irvine Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, faculty members are developing ways for artificial intelligence to help deliver better patient care and improved outcomes. How will developers be able to integrate external data sources, knowledge bases and analysis models into their systems using openCHA?

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2023

It has installed LifeSigns' integrated monitoring system which allows real-time monitoring of patients' vitals with an early warning alert mechanism. Also as part of the partnership, patient monitors have been set up at the nurses' station and a patient information system has been running across the hospital.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2024

When done correctly, integrating technology into home-based care transforms how caregivers deliver care, making processes more efficient and responsive. There will be an ongoing focus on better integrating clinical care with home care services and supports, ORourke said.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 11, 2024

In February, it started piloting Spirit Health's Clinitouch technology as part of its in-home nursing care service, Advanced Preventative Care (APC). Delivered by registered and enrolled nurses, the service is offered to eligible Tasmanians with chronic diseases. We are currently one month into the four-month pilot.

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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 25, 2024

Learn more about: How AI is driving transformation across the healthcare industry, from streamlining medical coding to “Uber-izing” nursing Common challenges health systems face when adopting AI tools and advice for successfully integrating these solutions What makes an AI solution truly effective and how it can best augment, rather than (..)

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Take the case of a patient who stays in a hospital bed longer because they can’t get to a skilled nursing or rehab facility. They are progressing well and going to a post-acute care or skilled nursing facility. Spending too little or too much time in an acute care setting can be detrimental to the patient.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 27, 2022

The new offering integrates patient engagement tools, telehealth, electronic health record data and more on a single platform that can connect consumers with clinicians at CVS or other providers. CVS on Thursday announced the launch of its new CVS Health Virtual Primary Care service. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 3, 2024

Physicians and nurses were only able to provide ICU care on a part-time basis. The HITRUST-certified telemedicine carts have full zoom-tilt cameras and integrated stethoscopes, so the virtual providers are able to get all the inputs they need to care for the patient adequately. The hospital uses Cerner for its electronic health record.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As hospitals and health systems embrace digital transformation in earnest, they're apt to find improvements on any number of fronts, from staffing challenges (especially in acute care nursing), length of stay, 30-day readmissions, value-based care and chronic care management. It was ranked no.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 4, 2024

DAX Copilot is an AI-enabled scribe software integrated with electronic health records (EHR). Home health providers are hoping AI tools can do the same for their nurses. This generative AI tool gives time back to home health nurses by cutting documentation time by “over 85%,” according to the company.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Later this fall, we are offering in-person house calls and remote house calls with the use of MedWand connected technology, which enables our providers – doctors and nurse practitioners – to conduct a remote house call with all the clinical-grade data needed from body temperature to ECG/EKG readings.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It comprises a sensor patch and a finger oximeter linked to a central system or dashboard at the nurses' workstation where they can view and check patients' conditions at any time. CGH intends to reduce that time by introducing a smart monitoring system that allows nurses to spend more time on care or focus on other critical duties.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The issue is expected to have a profound impact on the aged care sector as it is predicted to be competing with other nursing sectors to hire and retain between 20,000 to 40,000 available staff over the next two years. Sarah Dring, a clinical nurse consultant, shared with HealthcareIT News her experience with the new virtual service.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 30, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS Three-dimensional telehealth can help improve patient care visits, just as it helps train surgeons, doctors and nurses across the globe. Now the hospital plans to add 24" Holobox Mini displays at several additional locations to increase the use of the technology among the hospital's clinical and specialty staff.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

"First, while we had in place technology to enable telemedicine – in particular virtual visits – it had not been optimized for use nor integrated within our clinical workflows or our EHR," said CIO Thomas Furlani. This integration let virtual visit workflows blend seamlessly with an in-person clinic day."

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Integrated healthcare provider Apollo Hospitals is now rolling out its connected care programme across its entire network in India. The system also allows remote monitoring from a central command centre, nurse stations, and mobile devices.

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