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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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As Food-As-Medicine Gains Momentum, Watch for Dietitians and Pharmacists to Sit at The FaM Table – And A Lesson from George Washington Carver

Health Populi

While we’ve seen the fast growth of registered dietitians working in retail, they are increasingly collaborating with other health professionals — namely registered nurses and medical doctors.

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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Health Populi

In its recommendations for action, ECRI notes that health care providers cannot solve this crisis themselves, but can take specific actions to address the pediatric mental health crisis. The safety issues include resource and capacity constraints leading to all-time highs of provider burnout, especially in the wake of the pandemic.

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Smart cities during COVID-19

Digital Leaders HealthTech

Bloomberg Philanthropies is virtually convening experts in public health and City leadership to help cities respond to the Coronavirus. plans, strategies, policies) that are (a) designed specifically as a reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak or (b) designed to face other health emergencies such as sanitary crises or epidemics.

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6 months in: What will the new normal look like for hospitals?

Henry Kotula

Virtual care can’t replace in-person care, of course, and some patients and doctors will prefer face-to-face visits. Doctors, nurses and other front-line employees are in incredibly stressful work environments. Nurses have reported fearing for their safety among PPE shortages and alleged lapses in protocol.

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HIMSS CEO: How to capitalize on an 'exponential growth' in digital innovation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Beyond that, said Wolf, HIMSS has been working with public health agencies around the world to help ensure that "organizations like the CDC and even in the EU have the proper backend systems and data environments, working with the WHO on their data strategy. " Leadership Fundamentals for Digital Transformation.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). One of the resulting papers lists a large number of public sources for SDoH data (pages 26-30).