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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. Plus, they look at how interoperability can help address this problem and provide valuable analytics.

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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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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

Even though skilled nursing facilities, long-care homes and retirement facilities are highly regulated, Charnetski says that regulators don’t really understand the industry’s needs. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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4 Strategic Considerations for Digital Hospital Transformation

Healthcare IT Today

These targets may include modernizing capabilities for general diagnostics, anesthesia, EHR, or other multi-department systems (e.g. Other criteria for these targets include solutions that can aid in the most acute staffing shortages, such as patient monitoring systems that allow nurses to effectively care for more patients at a time.

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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Health Populi

These actions include leadership support and resources to shift the organization’s culture toward behavioral health needs, patient and family engagement tactics, and warm handoffs to pediatric mental health services in the community, among many other constructive recommendations.

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WellSky Acquires Corridor, Expands Commitment to Offering Best-in-Class Coding, Revenue Cycle Management Services for Post-Acute Industry

Healthcare IT Today

The addition of Corridor allows WellSky to strengthen its position in home health coding and RCM and move into the skilled nursing facility billing business. Corridor has a proven track record as a leading tech-enabled services partner to post-acute providers, serving more than 2,600 client sites and supporting more than 52,000 clinicians.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g., This focus is missing a critical aspect of the equation because nursing and clinical support workforce is currently the most stressed and overworked and is likely to be the breaking point of healthcare organization’s ability to serve patients. FHIR, HL7).

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