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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"The most impacted are in the area of clinical informatics, such as chief medical information officers and chief nursing information officers – they are being overwhelmed with the need to take care of the present need."

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Doctors Love Alerts Until They Don’t

Healthcare IT Today

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. Far too often the primary care doctor never learns about these health issues that are addressed at hospitals. It’s beautiful that PCPs can be informed in order to coordinate the care for their patients.

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Ambulatory surgery center's virtual care platform helps boost productivity and patient satisfaction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Despite a common misconception that remote care management platforms replace direct care from providers, the platform is intended to complement the treatment course and reflect providers' messaging," Lovewell said. Of course, this can't be attributed entirely to digital care management, but it's a big component.

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A Family’s Guide to the ICU, Part 3: Being An Advocate

Society for Participatory Medicine

What do you think is the right course of action? The nurse last night was worried about metric X and had proactively given her medication Y before she has to {do PT, insert a line, etc.}. What are you concerned with the most, has that changed since (yesterday, earlier this week, last week/month etc.)? is happening? The Family Meeting.

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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

The company has 54 “extensively visited” on-site health centers, “which are staffed with doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners and other health professionals,” CEO Jamie Dimon wrote in his most recent annual letter to shareholders. Of course, whenever talk turns to data and centralization, security and privacy concerns typically follow.

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Tech and the future of care work – five research midpoint observations

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Each interviewee was asked for thoughts in the context of the categories suggested by ChatGPT and any other categories that will improve the work processes for those in the care-related industries – home care, home healthcare, senior living care (including nursing homes), and hospital discharge processes to any of those.

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Weekender 5/3/19

HIStalk Weekender

Coming back full circle, there is still going to be a market for community hospital IT software but it will be one that is in long-term decline and largely a maintenance market that lives of the 16-20% annual software and maintenance feeds vendors charge (more if they host it). Vaporware? ). Monday Morning Update 4/29/19. Get Involved.

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