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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Health Populi

ECRI builds this report of the Top 10 patient safety issues leveraging its long-time expertise in this field: their staff are expert across the health care landscape including people in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, risk management, and of course patient safety and quality.

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Dr. Burnout – The 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report

Health Populi

In 2013, the issue of burnout was called out on the cover of the report, shown here with the question, “does burnout affect lifestyle?” ” In 2015, the Physician Lifestyle Report was titled, Health-Wealth-Weed Burnout. Medscape researched its first Physician Lifestyle Report in 2012.

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FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"In addition, in 2012, UVA Health launched a remote patient monitoring program to improve patient compliance and clinical outcomes, and to reduce hospital readmissions, hospital length of stay and emergency department visits. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine.

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Transforming Disaster Recovery with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

Maartens conference focused on public health challenges after hurricanes. Survivors will need emergency and follow-up care; injured animals will need help,” Sorenson said, explaining that disasters impact health outcomes on multiple levels. Telemedicine is changing the game on disaster resiliency and public health outcomes.

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3 Ways Remote Patient Monitoring Combats Healthcare Provider Shortages

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

1] According to a WHO report presented at the Third Global Forum on Human Resource for Health in 2013, if the shortages outlined in the report are not addressed, they will have major consequences for the health of billions of people around the world. Nurses can rapidly and effectively educate patients using digital health tools.

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IT preparedness is key to managing outbreak of COVID-19, says CIO of SNUBH

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The system was fully integrated into BESTCare and monitors all inpatient test results and vital signs 24/7 since 2013. Furthermore, SNUBH has been utilizing Personal Health Record (PHR) and electronic survey system for telemonitoring. SNUBH launched a home grown personal health record application named Health4U since 2013.

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Seattle Coronavirus Care: Short in Staff, Supplies and Space

Henry Kotula

On a per-person basis, the state lags most others in nurses and hospital rooms designed to isolate patients with infectious, airborne diseases, according to a nationwide index of health-security measures. points for managing volunteers in an emergency in 2013. Health Workers Strained. The state scored 2.5

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