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Lighting the Way to Efficient Patient Care – How Interoperability and Analytics Change the Nurse Call Paradigm

Healthcare IT Today

Of course, with this growth of technology we’ve also seen the growth of burnout and alert fatigue as devices send off warnings that aren’t useful and the volume of alerts that a nurse is getting is overwhelming. They’re right that nurse call data holds the keys to informing the clinical decision-making process.

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Telehealth, properly integrated with EHRs, can boost cancer care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

But when you are very nauseous, incredibly lethargic, tired and suffering from several adverse events, you may want to find a secure and reliable way to connect with your clinical team – but not necessarily in a synchronous manner. So, suppose your nurse or physician is with another patient.

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Nursing execs dish on the digital health tools they've found most useful during the pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In a recent study, researchers associated more favorable electronic health record usability scores with lower odds of burnout among nurses. Unfortunately, that study also found that nurses scored their EHR usability at an F – which seems to bode ill for workplace satisfaction in an already stressful environment.

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These Three Things Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level

Healthcare IT Today

This familiar scene exemplifies the unnecessary burdens traditional EHRs have placed on providers, patients, and the overall healthcare system. As a former ER physician and current digital health professional, I’ve dealt with these challenges firsthand—and see the enormous potential EHRs hold to change care experiences for the better.

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Manifest MedEx Launches the California ADT Network, a Free Acute and Post-Acute Event Notification Exchange for California

Digital Health Global

ADTs are simple electronic messages, typically sent by a hospital or SNF’s electronic health record (EHR), letting an assigned physician and care team know their patient has been admitted to a care setting, discharged from a care setting, or transferred to another care setting.

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Technology, Health Equity, and Participatory Medicine in the Care Management of Sickle Cell Patients

Society for Participatory Medicine

During my doctoral study in nursing practice a couple of years ago, I learned about a champion of nursing informatics, Dr. Nancy Staggers. Dr. Staggers assisted in developing the American Nursing Association’s Scopes and Standards of Practice. She also contributed to electronic health record (EHR) implementation.

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Senseonics Partners with Rimidi to Develop Innovative Diabetes Solution

Digital Health Global

Rimidi’s platform aligns with Medicare’s reimbursable remote patient monitoring telehealth programs while seamlessly integrating within existing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, supporting quality improvement initiatives, driving workflow optimization, increasing patient engagement and providing clinical decision support.

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