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Overcoming digital barriers in the nursing profession

Digital Leaders HealthTech

At the time, all nursing documentation was done on paper. Change is hard, and for the time-pressured nurse or midwife, it could be difficult to carve out enough time to learn a new system when they already had an embedded practice that worked for them. Not having real-time data made making decisions difficult.

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Health Care Providers Are More Politically Engaged in the 2020 Elections

Health Populi

Then in 2018, two years into President Donald Trump’s four-year term, the mid-term elections drove U.S. nurses, too, have demonstrably increased their political activism in this year’s election. But health care drove millions of voters to the polls in the 2018 U.S. Until 2016, physicians’ voting rates in U.S.

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How virtual sitter services saved St. Luke’s $1.5M in 2023

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

THE PROBLEM "Many of these challenges were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting us to seek new ways to provide additional resources and support to our patient care staff," said Cole Rogers, RN, nurse manager at St. Luke's. " PROPOSAL Knowing it couldn’t simply keep hiring more one-to-one sitters, St.

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

In 2018, Stacy launched her website, began blogging, and got social media traction when HIMSS appointed her a digital influencer. Following the program, the company asked her to give a talk at their global leadership summit in January 2022. Stacy was fighting for home nursing services for Emmett. “I

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys – Part 1: Origin Stories, the Security Ecosystem, and the Start Line

Health Populi

JSK: You moved into the Amedisys organization in 2018 as Chief Information Security Officer. One of the most impactful experiences of my career was working with our hospice nurses during the height of COVID. Our hospice nurses overcome this uncomfortableness daily. The first is having the ability to self-rescue.

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Concerted Effort to Define Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare is Sorely Needed

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Amy Hester, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, Chairwoman and CEO at HD Nursing The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) across a number of industries, particularly in healthcare, has shown both great promise as well as cause for alarm. She is an adjunct faculty at UAMS College of Nursing.

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Geisinger's journey to greatly expanded telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"More than 8% of total outpatient visits now are conducted virtually, and more than 2,000 providers and more than 500 nurses have been trained to use telemedicine," Raichura reported. In fact, it has doubled in the last 30 years. "This service is integrated into our electronic health record for scheduling and billing purposes."