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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

Virtual nurse and virtual doc triage To make this happen, the health system implemented a virtual nurse and virtual physician triage program designed to get patients moving through the ED process sooner rather than later. Triaged patients often are sent for testing (for example, labs, imaging, etc.)

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Provider burnout rates have leveled off, says KLAS report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Most of the measured contributors to burnout have become less prevalent than they were at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new Provider Burnout and the EHR Experience report from the KLAS Arch Collaborative. Platforms for electronic prior authorization and virtual nursing have released some of the pressure on providers.

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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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Employee Fired for Inappropriately Accessing EHR Records

Healthcare IT Today

For example, one of our medical practice clients caught a receptionist in one office snooping in records of patients who were visiting another office. When I was the Chief Information Officer at a hospital, a nurse was fired for inappropriately accessing her former mother-in-law’s medical record. retained for 6 years.

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How virtual sitter services saved St. Luke’s $1.5M in 2023

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

THE PROBLEM "Many of these challenges were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting us to seek new ways to provide additional resources and support to our patient care staff," said Cole Rogers, RN, nurse manager at St. Luke's. " PROPOSAL Knowing it couldn’t simply keep hiring more one-to-one sitters, St.

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This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

At ReMedi , we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR. Clinicians vs. Abstractors: Who should do it?

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