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Nurses are the most trusted profession in America, followed by doctors and pharmacists

Health Populi

Nurses rank top in Americans’ minds for the seventeenth year-in-a-row, Gallup found in its annual survey of honesty and ethics in professions. Health Populi’s Hot Points: It cannot be overstated that nurses in America are the most beloved profession in and outside of the health care industry. health care.

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Telemedicine Today (#tday): July 2015

American Well

Healthcare providers can pay for just the SaaS platform or buy custom hospital carts that let on-site nurses plug patient-monitoring instruments (like compatible examination cameras and stethoscopes) into the carts, which send readings in real time to distant health practitioners.

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What if the School Nurse is Busy?

Insulin Nation

Ray Duckler, a columnist at the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire, wrote a piece on November 29 about Luc Gautreaux, a seven-year-old who can’t get anyone at his school in the Winnipesaukee region to help him with his diabetes self-care – excepting the school nurse, whom Luc has to go in to see several times a day.

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What if the School Nurse is Busy?

Insulin Nation

Ray Duckler, a columnist at the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire, wrote a piece on November 29 about Luc Gautreaux, a seven-year-old who can’t get anyone at his school in the Winnipesaukee region to help him with his diabetes self-care – excepting the school nurse, whom Luc has to go in to see several times a day.

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AI-powered RPM can help address the rural neonatal care crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Coupled with a worsening nursing shortage , this is a huge problem for rural American families. hospitals rose 45% from 2006 to 2015. The most recent data gathered in 2015 indicates that the pregnancy-related mortality ratio is 29.4 Even before the pandemic, maternal and infant outcomes in the U.S. were shockingly poor.

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Bonus Features – August 14, 2022 – Payers and providers look at Big Tech differently, half of physicians and nurses don’t think their orgs are headed in the right direction, and more

Healthcare IT Today

A survey of 5,000 clinicians conducted by experience management firm Qualtrics concluded that only half of nurses and physicians believe in the future of their organizations. Just over half of those surveyed indicated that they are able to meet their career goals in their current role.

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Arkos Health, created by merger of 3 companies, sets sights on senior-focused telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Las Vegas-based CarePointe and Tempe, Arizona-based USHS, founded in 2015 and 2018, respectively, bring data-driven care-coordination tools to the table, which help value-based organizations lower costs and boost quality.