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New efforts try to balance nurse staffing ratios with access to care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It's National Nurses Week 2024 , and it's time to celebrate the more than 5 million RNs nationwide who are so essential to care delivery. But overshadowing the celebration are many challenges impacting the nursing workforce. Feds, states take up nurse staffing The past four years have been especially tough on nurses, of course.

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Elation Health Adds to Leadership Team to Accelerate Growth Across Primary Care Market

Digital Health Global

Welcoming Tom and Seth to the Elation leadership team supports our continued work to facilitate and elevate the delivery of primary care in any setting,” said Kyna Fong, Ph.D., Seth Cedars, general counsel – Cedars brings to Elation nearly two decades of corporate legal, regulatory, licensing, and compliance leadership.

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Telehealth Technology Helps Prevent Nurse Burnout — Here’s How

AMD Telemedicine

Increased workloads and health risks and the ever-changing dynamics in the workplace are making life more challenging for both nurses and physicians. With all that’s at stake for our healthcare staff members, nurse retention should become a focal point for those in charge of healthcare facilities. Reducing Burnout Among Nurses.

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Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

On the other hand, and not surprisingly, the percentage of patients accessing information electronically saw the biggest jump from 2020 (38%) to 2022 (57%) amid the pandemic. Real-time location service provider Navenio is integrating with Pavion ‘s nurse call system.

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Epic tops Best in KLAS overall software suite list for 12th year running

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Epic, Nordic, Galen Healthcare and Chartis Group won big in the 2022 Best in KLAS Awards, the research and insights firm announced Tuesday. "The 2022 Best in KLAS report covers over 1,000 solutions. Meanwhile, Nordic won for top Overall IT Services Firm, along with HIT Implementation Leadership (Large). Innovaccer.

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

Following the program, the company asked her to give a talk at their global leadership summit in January 2022. Stacy foresees that every life science company will embed the patient leadership role in their organizations. Stacy was fighting for home nursing services for Emmett. “I That would be, collectively, a “no.”.

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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

HIMSS has released its 2022 Future of Healthcare Report , and survey results suggest that payers and providers look at big technology companies differently. 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.

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