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How AI can ease the burden of stressed-out teletriage nurses

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Teletriage nurses often face intense pressure as they work in fast-paced situations while assessing patients, employing critical thinking and delivering high-quality care. We interviewed Dean to get an in-depth look at nurse teletriage. What is a typical teletriage nurse call like? What contributes to pressure and burnout?

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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. But poor quality data also happens when every facility uses a different term for a social security number.

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Emerging Technologies Shaping the Health IT Landscape and How They Contribute to Improving Patient Outcomes and Healthcare Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

Leveraging health data, it engages patients in real-time, addressing issues that drive poor health and high utilization of health services. While it doesn’t capture the imagination like Generative AI, Adaptive AI delivers significant value, shifting focus from data to impactful health IT.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

Overall, 75% of consumers trust medical doctors, and 69% trust nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the long-anticipated ONC Cures Act Final Rule for health data interoperability. In the case of the Rule, the data will be provided to us via our smartphones.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. The variety of organizations that provide data (clinical settings, labs, community-based organizations, etc.)

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Introducing Layer Health

Healthcare IT Today

When combined, these breadcrumbs tell a rich story of a patient’s health journey and clinical care. However, the most nuanced and valuable data is unstructured and hard to understand, often inaccessible without a team of nurses and data scientists.

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Empowering Healthcare: The Transformative Role of Technology in Improving Patient Care

Healthcare IT Today

Nurse and Physician Satisfaction and Productivity In the past, the patient’s health was always the number one concern. One of the most significant benefits of utilizing AI in a health system is the ability to automate repetitive tasks that can contribute to burnout.

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