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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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Providence forges a new path with a virtual nursing unit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual nursing is gaining significant momentum as an effective way to redesign and redistribute nursing workload. Virtual models decrease the burden on nurses delivering direct bedside patient care and leverages nurses that want to continue practicing but may not be able to practice at the bedside by extending their nursing careers.

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Lehigh Valley streamlines ED triage with virtual docs and nurses

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To confront the problem, Lehigh Valley began using telehealth and telecommunications technologies to mobilize resources to optimize a patient’s waiting time – while reducing the number of patients leaving the ED without being seen. The tests included physicians, nurses, technicians, scribes, EKG techs, etc.,

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Rural Watauga Medical uses telehealth to care for twice the typical number of patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Part of Appalachian Regional Healthcare System, Wautaga Medical Center in rural Boone, North Carolina, already was busy before COVID-19 hit, and leadership knew their current hospitalist staff could not handle the onslaught of patients coming through during the pandemic. THE PROBLEM. Lisa Kaufmann, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System.

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Provider burnout rates have leveled off, says KLAS report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Beyond the news that overall provider burnout rates did not increase with this year's survey, KLAS researchers found the following factors have improved: High levels of trust in organizational leadership around the EHR correlated with a lower percentage of providers reporting burnout.

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Upstate Medical University decreases no-shows by 59% with telehealth, which patients love

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

“This entailed making a video visit solution available, creating workflows, and establishing billing and compliant documentation, as well as delivering all-encompassing education.” Documentation and billing still were to be completed within the EHR.” MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Evara Health is tackling chronic conditions and saving lives with RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In late 2021, we were fortunate to be awarded one of the FCC telehealth grants, which gave us the funding to initiate an RPM program." "Our value-based services nursing team then monitors these patients in between MH@H visits," Rubin noted. "We had applied for a number of grants to start up a program.

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