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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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Lighting the Way to Efficient Patient Care – How Interoperability and Analytics Change the Nurse Call Paradigm

Healthcare IT Today

We have more monitors at our fingertips than ever before that are all watching and alerting us of potential problems for the patients that need to be addressed. This session introduced me to a new term I’d never heard before when they talked about some people calling nurse call data “digital dust.”

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Ambient Voice Transcriptions Endorsed in a Study by The Permanente Medical Group

Healthcare IT Today

A new study by The Permanente Medical Group (part of Kaiser Permanente) offers confidence that ambient voice transcriptions can save time and improve the patient experience by generating clinical notes about patient visits. The doctor, of course, has to edit the note for accuracy. Many vendors claim a high accuracy rate.

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Emerging Technologies Shaping the Health IT Landscape and How They Contribute to Improving Patient Outcomes and Healthcare Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

The simplified delivery models and systems they implement require a more lightweight technology package, and for Electronic Health Records (EHRs), this translates to a simple, cloud-based system. No doubt, these technologies will play an increasing role in EHRs and the overall healthcare ecosystem. This is just the beginning.

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University of Rochester serves rural patients, reduces ED burden with telebehavioral health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The debut installment of the new Cleveland Clinic & HIMSS Patient Experience Digital Series debuts next Tuesday, November 10. We have a psychiatrist or a nurse practitioner in the academic medical center in Rochester, two hours away, who's available 9-5 every weekday to discuss cases with that onsite engagement specialist."

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Health IT execs offer thoughts on the big issues of 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" EHRs: Automation can help. Burnout has been an ongoing scourge at hospitals for years now, and the crushing demands of the pandemic have only made it worse for physicians , nurses , telehealth managers and others. Electronic health records don't usually help, even if their impact on burnout is more complex than many realize.

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. Comparing 11 top telehealth platforms: Company execs tout quality, safety, EHR integrations.