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New efforts try to balance nurse staffing ratios with access to care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"With patient and staff safety as foundational values for engagement, the proper use of management systems technologies can help nurse leaders develop the right combination of staff to meet patient needs and nursing staffing requirements," he said. "The score is very transparent," Selsky said.

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Miss one of these? Six aging and health tech blog posts from April and May

Aging in Place Technology Watch

We are used to citing population surveys to cite trends. The growth has been tracked most recently in survey samples that compared the most recent with prior time periods: AARP surveyed 2063 and Pew Research surveyed 1502 adult s. And Linkage Connect surveys the oldest, with a sizable sample of 2398 older adults.

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New Primary Care, Retail and Tech Entrants Motivating Hospitals to Grow Consumer Chops

Health Populi

As the title of Kaufman Hall’s sixth annual report suggests, health care consumers are evolving — even if the traditional healthcare system hasn’t uniformly responded in lock step with more demanding patients.

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The Future of Love and How It Could Shape Health, Well-Being, and Daily Living

Health Populi

Beyond some obvious things, in looking at love, Ipsos makes the connections between the emotion and its impacts on finances, housing, shopping/retail, and of course health and well-being. While the Ipsos report features mostly U.S.

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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). That data can reveal important information that might not make it into the patient’s own record, such as an emergency room visit.

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Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring – Not for the Faint-of-Heart (Pun Intended)

Healthcare IT Today

The excitement has been largely fueled by the renowned public health benefits of, and the seductive commercial opportunity for, a seamless hypertension management solution that is virtually invisible – part of what people are already wearing, such as smartwatches, earbuds, smart rings, and apparel.

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Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As this public health crisis continues to escalate, however, telemedicine is quickly gaining recognition as a critical tool to slow the spread of COVID-19, he added. ” With respect to COVID19, the data suggests that most people will have a mild infection and the clinical course will be unremarkable.