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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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Telehealth can increase nurse workloads, study shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A study published in the Western Journal of Nursing Research found that patients using at-home monitoring systems for blood glucose and blood pressure levels received almost twice as many "nursing activities" as patients who received usual care. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

These new ideas and technologies are only successful, however, if enough people collectively take notice and talk about it in order to make it trend. This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend. FHIR, HL7).

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Featured Health IT Job: Staff Nurse III – Information Technology at Natividad

Healthcare IT Today

Today, we’re featuring the Staff Nurse III – Information Technology at Natividad position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Staff Nurse III – Information Technology Natividad is accepting applications for a permanent, full-time Staff Nurse III in the Information Technology Department.

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Tackling the challenge of integrating telehealth seamlessly into the EHR

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Throwing too many solutions with too many workflows and too many log-ins at physicians and nurses is a recipe for failure. Here, Lotan shares his expertise with the combined forces of telehealth and EHRs. The importance of seamless telehealth-EHR integration cannot be underestimated, both in synchronous and asynchronous workflows.

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Concerning Health IT Trends: What Can We Do and What Happens if We Do Nothing?

Healthcare IT Today

These worries and concerns can be very isolating when the topic is trending with seemingly everyone else being excited for it. What health IT trend has you concerned? If unaddressed, this could lead to significant data breaches, undermining the integrity of AI systems in healthcare, like those used in modern EHRs and medical coding.

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Athenahealth launches new EHR-embedded telehealth tool

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" By directly integrating video conferencing within the athenaOne EHR, the company says it hopes to streamline patient and provider experience. " Nurses can complete patient intake through the EHR and then initiate a so-called virtual handoff to practitioners. THE LARGER TREND.

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