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Best practices, legislative priorities and SNFs: 4 key takeaways from the NAACOS spring conference

FierceHealthIT

The National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) hosted a spring conference last week, with sessions on post-acute care, fraud, implementation best practices, health equity and legislative priorities. |

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Providence forges a new path with a virtual nursing unit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual nursing is gaining significant momentum as an effective way to redesign and redistribute nursing workload. Virtual models decrease the burden on nurses delivering direct bedside patient care and leverages nurses that want to continue practicing but may not be able to practice at the bedside by extending their nursing careers.

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What you need to know about standing up a virtual nursing unit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

nursing shortage has reached critical levels with the pandemic battle paired with an aging population. To serve its inpatient population and overcome the nursing shortage, St. The organization created and implemented one of the nation's first virtual nursing units to reduce the burden on bedside nurses and much more.

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Nursing execs dish on the digital health tools they've found most useful during the pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In a recent study, researchers associated more favorable electronic health record usability scores with lower odds of burnout among nurses. Unfortunately, that study also found that nurses scored their EHR usability at an F – which seems to bode ill for workplace satisfaction in an already stressful environment.

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Xealth’s Recap from Oracle Health Conference 2023

Xealth

It was great seeing the Oracle Health Conference in a new location (and a location that us on the conference circuit are very familiar with!).The Key takeaways: From a nursing perspective – focus on virtual nursing. The post Xealth’s Recap from Oracle Health Conference 2023 appeared first on Xealth.

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technologies from the Argentum 2020 virtual conference and suppliers

Aging in Place Technology Watch

As if that weren’t enough, a tech track at Argentum’s annual (now virtual) conference included a session on Voice First (sponsored by CDW Healthcare) in a long list of tech enablement session entries. Also on the Argentum site is a product category listing. Learn more at CarePredict.

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Mary Washington Healthcare Partners with Caregility to Pioneer Inpatient Virtual Engagement and Virtual Nursing Program

Digital Health Global

The program brings two-way virtual care communications to the hospital bedside to increase nurse assistance, improve patient safety, and advance care model innovation within the regional health system. The virtual nursing program is the latest step in a series of digital health innovation programs at Mary Washington Healthcare.

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