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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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Intelligent Communication: The Key to Retaining Nursing Staff

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jim Larrison, Co-Founder & CCO at Firstup Three years after the start of the pandemic, nurses are beyond burnt out. Despite being hailed as “healthcare heroes,” nurses feel overworked, underpaid and under-appreciated. According to a recent survey by Jarrard Inc., In the same Jarrad, Inc.

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Safety in Health Care Ties Closely to Workforce Well-Being – Updates from Press Ganey and ECRI

Health Populi

The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “Safety is the foundation of healthcare.

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Three Ways Enterprise Visibility and Automation Benefit Staff and the Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare professionals have remained resilient over the course of the pandemic and the resulting stress has been well documented. An important aspect of the patient experience is ensuring that patients and loved ones are comfortable and informed throughout the care journey.

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Vital’s Scientific Publication on Sepsis Paves Way for Predictive Analytics Tools

Digital Health Global

The paper focuses on sepsis prediction, marking a crucial step in Vital’s ongoing commitment to delivering solutions that drive better patient outcomes while providing a positive patient experience. Our latest research on sepsis prediction reinforces this track record of patient impact.”

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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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