Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

She has established two novel integrated health psychology services at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (2010–2016) and Baylor College of Medicine (2016–present). In addition to her scientific roles, Bradford has more than a decade of experience as a clinical psychologist embedded in medical specialty settings.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2019

Let's take a longer look into this virtual world as it relates to care of older adults and consider such offerings as: Virtual caregiver nurse. Last month a startup launched with $35 million of funding to create a virtual caregiver nurse , targeting the labor shortage in private duty care. Virtual dementia tour.

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GlobalMed

JULY 27, 2020

When we think of long-term care, we tend to first think about nursing homes or assisted living facilities where residents receive 24-hour care. It is estimated this population makes up approximately 15% of the nursing home population of a total nursing home and assisted living population of 2.1 who died in nursing homes.

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When you think of a typical telehealth visit, you might picture a patient at home communicating with a primary care provider or a patient and nurse in a long-term care facility coordinating care with a specialist. In 2001, a prisoner taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas took two nurses hostage and assaulted them. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 31, 2018

In 2010, this association was renamed LeadingAge – from the Association of Homes and Services for the Aging – a mouthful, shortened to AAHSA. A small percent live in nursing homes. From A AHSA to LeadingAge. A rhetorical question, does LeadingAge, the association and event organizer, lead the world of aging services?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

One great success story of sustainable healthcare that combines those forces begins with a nurse who sews. healthcare rose 6 percent from 2010-18. Healthcare’s future is smart and sustainable, led by tech-driven solutions and human ingenuity. Healthcare is responsible for about 4.4 Healthcare facilities use nearly 10 percent of U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Grandcare Systems was founded in 2004 followed by a sensor-based remote monitoring startup and consolidation wave in 2009-2010. And that the costs (estimated at $754 million in 2015) were mostly paid by Medicare and Medicaid (the latter likely in nursing homes.) Read more. .

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

There’s also financial stress, and the stress of doing hands-on nursing tasks we’re never trained for. 2010 May;58(5):895-900. Report from a National Consensus Development Conference (Vol. San Francisco: Family Caregiver Alliance. Is it any wonder the caregiver’s own health often deteriorates? The Cache County study. J Am Geriatr Soc.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Help Yelp Serve Families with Information about Nursing Homes. No doubt you know someone who was baffled at how a terrible nursing home gets a 4 or 5 star rating from CMS’s Five Star Rating System , while a good one can appear to have a lower rating, applied from an inspection before management overhaul several years earlier.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2022

The projections showed that it would move from a ratio of 7 to 1 (using 2010 census data) down to 4 to 1 by 2030. The report indicated that the Caregiver Support Ratio (CSR) , the number of potential caregivers aged 45-64 compared to the population of individuals aged 80+, was going to significantly worsen.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Each patient’s parameters were reviewed by telemonitoring nurses, who were able to then intervene for immediate teachings when the patient was out of their range.]. million in avoided correctional facility transfers, and $806 million in avoided nursing facility transfers. Better Staff Utilization. Preventative Outreach.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2022

They’ll be staffed by nurses and MAs managed by remote doctors. In the next 10 years, we’ll see these options begin to emerge, but the rising Alpha and Beta generations (born 2010 to 2039) could receive routine care in the metaverse. Miles Romney, CTO at eVisit. A decade from now, we’ll see more, and smaller, clinics.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Trust is a precursor for health engagement, Edelman’s Health Engagement taught us in 2010, and that lesson is crucial to dot-connect with the 2018 data for U.S. professions saw the first major drop in pharmacists’ reputations, compared with nurses and doctors remaining highly ranked.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

” That was written in the 2001-2010 period of healthcare spending, so an old story giving me feelings of déjà vu. In 2007, the year I launched Health Populi , the inaugural post focused on just this issue; the post was titled, “Health care is the #1 line item in our national economy…and taking more out of your pocket.”

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American Well

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Each patient’s parameters were reviewed by telemonitoring nurses, who were able to then intervene for immediate teachings when the patient was out of their range.]. million in avoided correctional facility transfers, and $806 million in avoided nursing facility transfers. Better Staff Utilization. Preventative Outreach.

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GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

According to a University of North Carolina study, 113 have shuttered since 2010. In addition to ending the employment of hundreds of local residents, from nurses to cafeteria staff, the closure will force patients to travel further for basic care. Support continuity of care. Reach more patients in the community.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 12, 2019

But with only 40% of elementary schools staffed by a full-time school nurse, providing rapid treatment or diagnosis can be near impossible. Visits are facilitated by school nurses and mobile telemedicine techs who come on-site and sometimes are conducted with the child’s own pediatrician. million dollars in travel costs.

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GlobalMed

MAY 31, 2019

In 2001, a prisoner taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas took two nurses hostage and assaulted them. From 2010 to 2018, they saw a more than ten-fold increase in telemedicine primary care encounters and a 111% increase in telemedicine specialty encounters.

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American Well

JULY 25, 2016

Indeed, our recent Closing the Telehealth Gap research report – jointly produced by Avizia and Modern Healthcare – showed 7 2-percent of hospitals, 52-percent of physician practices and 36-percent of additional groups (like nursing homes and ambulatory centers) now use some form of telehealth.

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The nurses tested his blood sugar at one point, and it registered 360 mg/dl. Some recent instances of similar treatment include: -In 2010, a New York jury awarded $17.5 At the time of his arrest, his insulin was taken away. He was processed at the Edmonton Remand Centre, where he asked if he could have his insulin back.

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 8, 2014

I had sponsors, I was winning races, and the 2010 Olympics were in sight. We asked a nurse to explain, and she alerted a doctor. Riding On Insulin provides a safe environment with volunteer doctors and nurses on hand for kids to try a winter sport, perfect their skills, and make new friends who are just like them.

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care innovations

JUNE 13, 2018

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has worked for years to increase awareness of digital healthcare, highlighting how telemedicine trends are changing the American healthcare industry in fundamental ways , like the rise of the nursing informaticist and nurturing diversity in healthcare IT.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

For example, he made a rare error in the management of his blood glucose levels before competing in the Vancouver games in 2010, according to a NPR report, and it resulted in a low so bad during an event that he had to be helped by bystanders; he ended up finishing the race.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JANUARY 5, 2015

A 2010 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Report on C hronic Care : Making the Case for Ongoing Care states that eighty-five percent of all health care spending was on people with chronic conditions. These communications show patients how to use the Twine Health mobile app to receive ongoing support and guidance from their nurse at the practice.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Crystal Bowersox placed 2nd in the 2010 season of American Idol despite suffering from a severe episode of DKA halfway through the season. Luckily, after agreeing to have a nurse stay with her 24/7, Crystal was allowed to finish the competition. Crystal Bowersox.

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LinkousThink

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Bob played an instrumental role in the development of the Interstate Nurse Licensure Compact and received the National Council of State Boards of Nursing Exceptional Achievement Award for this work in 2004. Bob’s passing is a great loss to telemedicine, a loss to ATA and a loss to his many friends and family.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

MARCH 27, 2019

Some background: one of the most-discussed topics on our blog is shared decision-making (SDM), with pages and pages of posts (75 in the category) , dating back to 2010’s Salzburg Global Seminar on the subject. This is a guest post by SPM member, heart patient and author Elizabeth Rankin, BScN. The idea of SDM first arose around 1990.

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 7, 2019

Husel, DO argues that he was practicing “comfort care” for end-of-life patients by ordering fentanyl doses of 500 to 2,000 mcg and several grams of midazolam, all of which were dutifully removed by nurse via overrides from the hospital’s Pyxis dispensing cabinet. I’m enjoying the tight, pleasurable LinkedIn writing of ED doctor Louis M.

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mHealth Insight

MARCH 5, 2018

Description: This session will highlight the opportunities and challenges associated with patients generating their own health data and the role of nurses in facilitating these new technologies and data sources. Learning Objectives: Discuss the role of nurses in training patients to use new mHealth technologies.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

For example, venture capital investment in digital health grew more than 40x over the past decade from a mere $200 million in 2010 to a high of nearly $9.5 billion in 2018.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 24, 2024

The opposite can happen too easily, as the industry saw after the adoption of electronic health records in the 2010 decade. ” Gaines and Cindy Koppen, chief nursing officer at care.ai , ask on a very concrete level, “How many clicks does this solution require?”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

J Nurse Pract. Telehealth and eHealth in nurse practitioner training: current perspectives. A telephone survey of patient satisfaction with realtime telemedicine in a rural community in Colombia. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. Reay at al. Australas Psychiatry. 2020 Oct; 28(5): 514–516. Gajarawala et al. Jumreornvong et al.

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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 10, 2018

A New York Times opinion piece written by a hospice nurse and book author says more attention should be paid to the gut feelings of nurses, which she says aren’t really feelings but rather the clinical judgment that results from years of personal observations and experiences. It’s something that’s taught at nursing school.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Health consumers absolutely want to engage across all industry segments for health, we learned from the Edelman Health Engagement Barometer back in 2010 (shown in the bar chart here taken from my book HealthConsuming ). I laud these programs initiated by private sector businesses and health care stakeholders.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The same technologies (Skype, FaceTime, WhatsApp and others) that connect us with our friends and family can potentially connect us to our doctors, nurses, psychotherapists, pharmacists, dieticians and interpreters. At Barts Health Trust in London, we began to introduce video consultations in a single clinical service (diabetes) in 2010.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 6, 2022

Bluetooth medical devices monitored remotely could replace expensive home visits from community nursing staff for routine checking and evaluation because medical data could be sent via cellular network or through the internet. Real-time physiological measurement capabilities and data processing provide patients with relevant information.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

They include a report that says the US could see a deficit of 200,000 to 450,000 registered nurses by 2025. million lower-wage healthcare workers, such as medical assistants, home health aides, and nursing assistants. Within the next five years, another report also projects a shortage of more than 3.2

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