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Nurses: The Force for Change

Mobile Health Matters

This week marks National Nurses Week in the U.S., both a celebration of the profession and an opportunity to educate the public about the role nurses play in healthcare and their communities. Nurses Driving Change. Nurses’ primary focus is on the quality of care, comfort and safety of their patients.

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AWS announces healthcare workforce accelerator cohort

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

He noted that many of the startups are helping providers "reduce individual workloads by removing friction in day-to-day processes, streamlining clinical workflows, reducing documentation burden, outsourcing basic tasks to artificial intelligence-enabled solutions and supporting well-being and flexible work arrangements."

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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. “Privacy” is mentioned over 500 times in the document; “HIPAA,” well over 300. But when technology is introduced to this relationship between patients and providers, there’s a decline in trust.

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Three Ways Technology Can Address Healthcare’s Growing Pains

Mobile Health Matters

Currently, the process for documenting ECG strips in many hospitals requires clinicians to print the rhythm strips, then manually cut and paste snippets onto a piece of paper, before scanning them into the EHR. However, when equipment is stored in remote locations, other nurses end up on a scavenger hunt to find what they need.

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The Different Types of Telehealth

iSALUS Healthcare

Asynchronous Video (AKA Store-and-Forward) Asynchronous video is the electronic delivery of a patient’s documented health history outside of real-time, used by a healthcare provider. Mobile Health (mHealth) Mobile health is the use of smart devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.), for monitoring and review.

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

Collaborative agreement : A collaborative agreement is the relationship between a physician who serves in a supervisory role and a nurse practitioner who is delivering clinical services to a patient. Originating site: The originating site is the location the telemedicine patient is in at the time of remote patient service.

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Providence Saint John uses AI platform to Empower Cancer Patients & Providers for Better Care

Consumer eHealth Engagement

Providers try to navigate their inefficient clinical workflows, address the administrative burden due to documentation requirements, and deal with workforce shortages. The Nurse Navigator reaches out electronically or telephonically to check in on Patricia to understand more about her symptoms. new symptom, moderate or severe symptom).