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Can Healthcare Optimize Its Human Resources and Redefine Care Delivery in the Process?

Healthcare IT Today

Many skilled nursing facilities are short-staffed, so patients cannot always transition out of the hospital in a timely manner. At the same time, there simply are not enough nurses and other healthcare providers to care for the people who will need support and resources in the next five to 10 years. About Ashish V.

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

AMD Telemedicine

This article was originally published in July 2015 but was updated in January 2023. These fields usually involve doctors and nurses relying on documented information and images rather than physical examinations. Patient experience, trust, and satisfaction are other significant benefits offered by live technology.

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Healthy Living Trends Inspired by COVID-19: Retailers, Food, and Consumers’ Growing Self-Care Muscles

Health Populi

.” This viewpoint looks like ancient history based on its publication date of October 2015, but it’s more timely than ever post-pandemic. ” Consumers-as-patients are seeking and hungry for help and support to get healthy and stay that way.

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

Health Populi

” In 2015, the Physician Lifestyle Report was titled, Health-Wealth-Weed Burnout. When the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) developed the concept of the Triple Aim in 2007, it was founded on three pillars: enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and lowering per capita health care costs.

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Can Artists Help to Remake Medicine? A New Book Asks and Answers (Yes!)

Health Populi

.” In her work at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, Dr. Safo collaborates with a multidisciplinary team of data analysts, designers, and engineers, in concert with doctors and nurses. More artists and designers are translating their personal health experiences to their work and art. in Princeton.

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Miss one of these? Six aging and health tech blog posts from April and May

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Home care companies, senior living companies, skilled nursing facilities are all desperate for workers to address this increasingly overwhelming market. Good news -- seventy-six percent of the 65+ population as of 2020 has access to broadband -- and tech adoption has clearly risen since 2015.

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How virtual nursing can help solve many workforce shortage woes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hospitals across the nation are facing workforce challenges with nurse staffing shortages posing one of the biggest threats to care delivery. More than 100,000 nurses exited the U.S. An aging nurse workforce nearing retirement and student capacity limits in nurse education programs are putting additional pressure on nurse staffing.

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