Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association released a joint statement this past week criticizing Kaiser Permanente's aims to expand advanced hospital services into patients' homes. "Nurses, more than any other healthcare staff, spend the most time with patients," said the unions in the statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

The Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of 2020, bipartisan legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, aims to enable more widespread use of telehealth in skilled nursing facilities. WHY IT MATTERS. The RUSH Act – introduced in companion bills from Sens. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The other Big Healthcare news item this week was CVS Health’s planned acquisition of Signify Health , after much speculation that Amazon and other Big and smaller bidders (including UnitedHealth Group) were keen on acquiring the home/care company over the past two weeks. health care re-organization, at scale. Bain & Co.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A new study by The Permanente Medical Group (part of Kaiser Permanente) offers confidence that ambient voice transcriptions can save time and improve the patient experience by generating clinical notes about patient visits. This article summarizes the key findings in that study. This study provides encouraging data on some of these questions.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 17, 2019

The shift from Resource Utilization Group (RUG) IV to PDPM moves the skilled nursing reimbursement model away from therapy provision as its main driver. The article What Is the Patient Driven Payment Model: How Skilled Nursing Providers Can Get Ahead of PDPM appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

In the time of Covid-19, some are talking about an increasing use of technology in their nursing homes. Others are discussing the race to enable ‘televisits’ -- noting outreach from AARP to CMS to boost the requirement for enabling technology in nursing homes. The State of Florida gave tablets to 150 nursing homes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Lots of industry groups want to see the temporary government waivers enacted early on during the COVID-19 public health emergency – the ones enabling the vast expansion of telehealth and remote patient monitoring over the past four months – to be made permanent once the storm has subsided. And some legislators do too.

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

How to Choose the Right Virtual Care Technology for Your Tele-Physician Group Selecting the proper telehealth technology for your physician services group is critical. Choosing the right care technology can help protect your revenue and physician services group reputation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2022

In 2018, Scottsdale Physician Group in Scottsdale, Arizona, saw a need that simply was not being met. Scottsdale Physician Group believed there had to be a better way of taking care of the patients that was scalable and effective. " Blue Beckham, Scottsdale Physician Group. THE PROBLEM. It needed to see all of the vitals.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

No understatement, these are very difficult times for nursing homes. million residents of nursing homes were already very frail people, needing help with 3 or more ADLs. 72% of residents are women, most are age 85+, and as noted, 'many also have only a small group of family and friends for support.' So many of the 1.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

A unique remote monitoring system, developed at MIT and deployed in some hospitals and long-term care settings, is now showing further promise for advanced assessment of potential COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes and other congregate care communities, according to researchers at the school's CSAIL institute. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Digital Health Today

MAY 12, 2020

WHO designated 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife. Two additional events, National Nurses Week (May 6-12, 2020) and International Nurses Day (May 12, 2020), provide even more opportunity to recognize the nurses working at the front lines, and how this important group of professionals hold the key to shaping the future of healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

A number of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have already signaled their willingness to support some of the requests outlined by the industry groups. THE LARGER TREND. Senate HELP Committee Chair Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.,

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 16, 2020

The Mount Sinai Health System has partnered with Sana Labs to launch Project Florence, a personalized learning platform to enhance the skills of nurses treating COVID-19 patients in New York City. The group, facilitated by […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 24, 2020

To prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, states should focus on preventing the spread of COVID-19 at high-risk sites, such as nursing homes, and in high-risk localities, the COVID-19 Policy Alliance—a group of experts brought together […].

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Mobile Health Matters

MAY 7, 2018

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2019

The skilled nursing sector has undergone a major transition over the past ten years. Because of shifting demographics and the challenges they place on hospitals, skilled nursing facilities are receiving patients who are struggling with more significant health concerns than in the past. THE PROBLEM. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2020

It delivers care to assisted living facilities through on-site visits performed by its physician assistants, nurse practitioners and physicians. “Telehealth has had a major impact on reducing hospitalizations for the patients in our practice.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2024

A Nursa survey found 86% of health systems had 10% or more of their nursing staff quit in 2023. HHS Technology Group introduced ConstellationAI , a digital asset marketplace for healthcare. Studies A report from HFS Research and Cognizant found 25% of providers intend to deploy generative AI to enhance patient engagement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

A realm where the transition from a receptionist to a nurse, then a doctor, and if need be, a specialist, would be as effortless as walking through interconnected rooms in a physical clinic. "A space where a patient's journey, from administrative check-ins to specialist consultations, would be seamless and safeguarded.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 26, 2024

Sutter Health will launch Abridge's platform in early April with groups of doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants in primary and specialty care across the health system's California footprint.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For health systems, hospitals and medical groups, competition for the shrinking pool of nurses and doctors will intensify, according to a new analysis. . | As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 8, 2023

One crucial tool in the nursing care of cancer patients is the nursing care plan, which serves as a roadmap for providing individualized, evidence-based care. Nurses can better support their patients and optimize their outcomes by understanding the significance of nursing care plans in cancer care.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

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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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 17, 2020

Nurses once again topped the list of America’s most trusted professions, according to Gallup, whose latest poll results were released this month. By Gallup’s count, it’s the 18th straight year nurses have earned that coveted title. Half the global workforce is comprised of nurses, and 90% are women. But they’re also CEOs.

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

Last weekend, I had the great pleasure of meeting Krissie, a Plastic Surgery Clinical Nurse Specialist with the King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation as well as serving as an Ambassador with the Children’s Burns Trust. The book was conceived by Kristina (Krissie) Stiles and illustrated by her artistic collaborator, Jill Latter.

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Hinduja Global Solutions

AUGUST 22, 2018

Nurse Triage Lines: 3.0. Nurse triage is at the center of providing the right service, at the right time, by the right level of providers. Over the years, nurse triage lines have gone through three phases of evolution. nurse triage. Podcast with AxisPoint Health. Wed, 08/22/2018 - 16:00. LEAVE A COMMENT. Healthcare.

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Mobile Health Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2017

As health systems focused on ensuring doctors had access to state-of-the-art health IT to monitor their patients when they couldn’t be at the bedside, the quality of tools and pace of adoption for nursing solutions did not keep up. Unfortunately, those solutions were not always conducive to nurses’ workflow.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

Phase one testing was conducted by leading physicians and nurses (< 50) to ensure the agent completes all critical checklist items with the patient for a given use case. Phase two testing required testing to be completed by 1000+ licensed US nurses, and 100+ US licensed physicians talking to the AI while acting as a patient.

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Insulin Nation

JANUARY 11, 2017

A recent Leipzig University study provided a snapshot of some of the pitfalls of Type 1 diabetes care in a nursing home setting. According to a Healio report, researchers examined 405 cases of severe hypoglycemia that occurred to 205 nursing home residents over a seven-year period. Thanks for reading this Insulin Nation article.

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Insulin Nation

JANUARY 11, 2017

A recent Leipzig University study provided a snapshot of some of the pitfalls of Type 1 diabetes care in a nursing home setting. According to a Healio report, researchers examined 405 cases of severe hypoglycemia that occurred to 205 nursing home residents over a seven-year period. Thanks for reading this Insulin Nation article.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

"The first issue we needed to address was the ability to efficiently and effectively assess patients who have been deemed at risk for suicidality for potential inpatient admission by our team of trained mental health services staff," said Julie Firman, DNP, RN, system chief nurse executive at Baptist Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2023

Last month KrebsOnSecurity reported about Clop after seeing an intercepted communication in which the group indicated it was successful in infiltrating new victims by disguising ultrasound images and other medical documents.

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care innovations

OCTOBER 31, 2018

A new report published in McKnight's Long Term Care News explores the connection between remote care and skilled nursing facilities, and how the application of the former can contribute to the success of the latter. By improving post-acute care for a variety of procedures, skilled nursing facilities can also maximize patient outcomes.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Specifically – if doctors and nurses choose to exchange information about their patients' health via WhatsApp – can patients count on this private data to remain safe – according to the standard set by the protected health information (PHI)?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As part of the collaboration, both companies will also collect unused data items, such as discharge summaries, nursing records, and surgical records, on top of EMR data, from partner medical institutions and the J-MIMO (Japan Medical Association Medical Information Management Organization) to build up their database for big data analysis.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

Estimated allowed charges by health plans were much lower than the original charge amounts, ranging from $17K at the low end to $24K for that 51 to 60 year old age group. The second chart shows COVID-19 claim lines (that is, patient case claims in private plans) by age groups for the overall U.S.

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