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Nursing community collaboration on the European COVID-19 front-lines

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar. Patients have embraced the shift to digital, with nurses supporting digital engagement.

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How Nurse Practitioner Authority Varies By State

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The degree to which nurse practitioners (NPs) can utilize the full extent of their education and training varies from state to state and practice to practice. According to the AANP , nurse practitioners’ independence varies depending on what state they choose to practice in. According to USAFacts , as of March 2021, 37% of the U.S.

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The Doctor Will See You Now…At Home? The AMA Launches a Health at Home Framework

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Logistics and operations addresses information processing, sharing, analyzing, and management — requiring interoperability and data liquidity, along with “nutritious” AI underpinning the analyses to ensure health equity-by-design.

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Walking the TikTok Tightrope: Social Media Use by Healthcare Professionals

Healthcare IT Today

NurseTok” is a specific category of videos on the app; a preexisting niche providing a way for nurses and other healthcare professionals to provide tailored content to an already invested audience. Aglieco Alexandra is a certified family nurse practitioner specializing in primary care, infectious disease, and addiction medicine.

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Top 5 Examples Of Wearable Medical Devices

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Wearable devices can improve patient care, track personal health data remotely, and even prevent patient deterioration or health problems before they occur. We will discuss the benefits later but let’s first talk about the 5 examples of wearable medical devices currently being used in this industry. Wearable Biosensors.

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Aging Populations of Consumers and Physicians Underpin the Future Doctor Shortage

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: How to mitigate the supply-and-demand gap between growing health citizen needs for care as we age, and a shortage of doctors? Consider a subset of physician shortage shown here in the third chart — that is the shortage expected for primary care doctors.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Virtual first and direct primary care for faster on-ramps to care. patients still delaying care is lack of easy access to primary care , especially risky for patients dealing with chronic conditions.