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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

For example, Cerner is emphasizing the use of virtual services to aid clients "that are on the front lines of the pandemic and being pushed to unprecedented limits," said a statement from the company supplied by Austin Cozzolino, Cerner's senior communication partner in corporate communications.

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Overcoming digital barriers in the nursing profession

Digital Leaders HealthTech

At the time, all nursing documentation was done on paper. We used whiteboards and clipboards to document our patient’s status and manage patient flow around the hospital. An example of using digital technology to improve care was the introduction of electronic observations. There was enormous potential for improvement.

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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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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This may seem like an insignificant example.

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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

Healthcare IT Today

For example, they think that the potassium value in the lab result is not correct. With 185 hospitals, it takes effort for HCA to maintain good quality health data across their entire organization. For example, for just lactic acid. there were 708 different terms for it across their 185 hospitals.

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Budget 2024: Private hospitals tapped to provide psychiatric telehealth amid crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In its latest 2024-2025 Budget, for example, the Ministry of Health and Aged Care announced a funding of A$588 million over eight years to establish a new national digital service to provide support for people in temporary distress. It will be implemented initially over the next two years starting in November.

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

All organizations, including those in critical infrastructure industries such as healthcare, need to consider a three-pronged approach to protecting sensitive data: monitoring user behavior, looking at content accessed by users, and applying additional controls to the most highly targeted users—for example, those with privileged access.

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