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Telestroke service reaches rural NSW faster than the metro

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This life-saving service connects patients with a network of specialist stroke doctors via video consultation, managed by Prince of Wales Hospital. The service has so far delivered treatment to over 3,000 stroke patients at 23 rural and regional hospitals in the state. It provides rapid 24/7 access to stroke diagnosis and treatment.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This feature story is the first in a series that will highlight how IT leaders managed the myriad challenges of 2020 – and how they plan to build from those lessons toward a better and more resilient future, this year and beyond. Eric Jimenez, CIO at Artesia General Hospital in Artesia, New Mexico.

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Lessons From a Ransomware Attack: The Importance of Partnership & Collaboration

Healthcare IT Today

Now imagine that business is a hospital. On October 27, 2020, Sky Lakes Medical Center went dark. The systems we relied on to keep the hospital running and ensure patient safety were reduced to handwritten notes and overworked fax machines. In 2020, the number of complaints rose to 791,790 and cost $4.1

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Overcoming digital barriers in the nursing profession

Digital Leaders HealthTech

We used whiteboards and clipboards to document our patient’s status and manage patient flow around the hospital. In 2020, nurses, midwives and other health care professionals have really embraced digital transformation with incredible resilience and determination. At the time, all nursing documentation was done on paper.

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Will 2024 see a reboot of Google Glass-style headsets in Healthcare?

Lloyd Price

Visit , www.nelsonadvisors.co.uk , 2013 to 2020: Google Glass V1 Revolutionising Healthcare Almost all of the technology incorporated into Google Glass, (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cameras, voice activation etc.) is already available on smartphones today. Chances are your iPhone is filthier than the average public toilet seat.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

The No Surprises Act was signed into law in 2020 and took effect last year. Many hospitals, health systems, and health plans still don’t have employees trained and don’t have the proper policies, procedures, and tech tools in place to be compliant, even with the two years of runway that was provided by legislators.

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HIStalk Interviews Erine Gray, CEO, Aunt Bertha

HIStalk Interviews

The concept of social determinants of health is suddenly popular, but for hospitals, it often just means having a place to record the patient’s self-reported information. I started the company nine years ago to offer an easier way to find programs and to connect to them directly and electronically. Some people call them referrals.

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