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Overcoming digital barriers in the nursing profession

Digital Leaders HealthTech

At the time, all nursing documentation was done on paper. We used whiteboards and clipboards to document our patient’s status and manage patient flow around the hospital. It’s important for nurses, midwives and other health care professionals to have a voice in this space. Most patients, in my experience, welcomed the change.

Nursing 98
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Zesty for Hospitals : Digital Transformation for Outpatients

Lloyd Price

Zesty for Hospitals It seems incredible, but today, the vast majority of NHS trusts still post paper letters to their patients. In fact, the average UK hospital sends over 1M paper letters to patients each year. Patients are informed of their appointments in a letter and have to call the hospital to make appointment changes.

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Ping An Good Doctor launches One Minute Clinics offering preliminary diagnosis by cloud computing Doctors

Lloyd Price

It will provide a high-speed, convenient, one-stop shop for medical and healthcare services for nearby residents, visitors to the scenic area and guests of the 2018 World Internet Conference. It is expected that by the end of 2018, "One-minute Clinics" will expand to 1000 units across China. "Small

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Seeing Your Doctor from Your Couch

American Well

When we started Avizia, we saw multiple vendors in the marketplace that were creating parts to a solution and they would throw those parts over the fence to the hospital IT department and expect them to put it together. Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018. It’s an extremely flexible solution.

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Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise and data analytics. The impact could be huge.

Lloyd Price

Teaming with Boston Children’s Hospital, it developed a then-groundbreaking Alexa feature that allowed the company’s AI-driven voice service to provide parents with basic health advice in response to questions about a child’s fever-like symptoms. Amazon’s healthcare dabbling stretches back to at least 2016. It’s a win-win.”

Nursing 40
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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursing home, community clinic, etc. Through the acquisition of Critical Signal Technologies in 2018, its 24/7 Caring Centers can provide medication reminder and isolation/loneliness check in calls to older adults, as well as offer triage and wellness support services.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Becker’s Healthcare is pleased to release the “150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare | 2018” list, which highlights hospitals, health systems and healthcare companies that promote diversity within the workforce, employee engagement and professional growth. Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.).