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Zesty for Hospitals : Digital Transformation for Outpatients

Lloyd Price

Zesty for Hospitals It seems incredible, but today, the vast majority of NHS trusts still post paper letters to their patients. In fact, the average UK hospital sends over 1M paper letters to patients each year. Patients are informed of their appointments in a letter and have to call the hospital to make appointment changes.

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Nurses: The Force for Change

Mobile Health Matters

For example, when hospitals transitioned to electronic medical records, the new documentation process was considered efficient by leadership, but some nurses felt stressed with the technology and unhappy with the change. Lack of concern for nurses’ well-being and satisfaction can lead to burnout and can ultimately impact patient care.

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Ambulatory surgery center's virtual care platform helps boost productivity and patient satisfaction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The platform also is integrated with the center's documentation software, Emme, which it uses in the postoperative stay suite at its lodge. As an ambulatory surgery center, it has to be very intentional about collecting readmission data from the regional hospital.

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Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise and data analytics. The impact could be huge.

Lloyd Price

Teaming with Boston Children’s Hospital, it developed a then-groundbreaking Alexa feature that allowed the company’s AI-driven voice service to provide parents with basic health advice in response to questions about a child’s fever-like symptoms. Amazon’s healthcare dabbling stretches back to at least 2016. It’s a win-win.”

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Patient education material in the form of images, documents and videos is pushed to patients through the app, as well. The eCareCoordinator telehealth software platform allows clinicians to remotely monitor patients’ vital signs and send patients short surveys about their health status.