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Overcoming digital barriers in the nursing profession

Digital Leaders HealthTech

At the time, all nursing documentation was done on paper. We used whiteboards and clipboards to document our patient’s status and manage patient flow around the hospital. Not having real-time data made making decisions difficult. It was incredibly time-consuming, walking around the wards making notes and compiling bed occupancy.

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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hard data on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis is difficult to come by, because many providers are enlisting all hands in handling the surge of cases, said Bob Cash, vice president of provider relations for KLAS. Hospitals have fixed costs that are hard to move without a lot of data and intelligence.

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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

Healthcare IT Today

HCA Healthcare , one of the leading providers of care in 20 states and in the United Kingdom, has smartly been investing to improve the quality of the health data they collect. When you say the words ‘data quality’ to people, they interpret it differently,” said Dr. Technically, yes, that is poor quality data.

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Asynchronous video for pre-op boosts patient and staff experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"While we had invested in an app to deliver this information to patients in written form, most of the pre-surgical information was delivered verbally by doctors, nurses and staff, in addition to a paper packet," she continued. We also could get experience data back from the patients.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

Mateusz Krempa, COO at Piwik Pro Broader reflection and discussion on HIPAA-compliant technologies would help the industry see beyond popular solutions and identify tools that balance successful data processing with regulatory requirements. Ownership means an organization knows where the data is stored and who has access.

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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" In the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center expanded its platform and developed an integrated nurse triage telehealth solution pilot to prevent critical care patients from ending up in the ER. These data points were queried and reported on dashboards within Microsoft PowerBI.