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Review of Zebra’s New ET40-HC and ET45-HC Tablets Designed for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Sometimes the smaller cell phone type screen wasn’t big enough for doctors and nurses or other healthcare use cases. Plus, the consumer tablets weren’t rugged enough to withstand the abuse that happens with nurses or doctors carrying them around or a tablet mounted beside or at admissions. Android 1.54

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Syllable Corporation Announces Purchase of Actium Health

Healthcare IT Today

It does this by assisting patients in searching for providers and departments, managing appointments, refilling prescriptions, finding patient rooms or nursing stations, and answering frequently asked questions. Customers using Syllable’s Patient Assistant include New York Presbyterian Hospital, Houston Methodist, and MemorialCare.

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Brightline Closes $10 Million Extended Series C Financing from Northwell Health as Demand for Family Behavioral Health Care Soars

Healthcare IT Today

Founded by leading digital health entrepreneurs Naomi Allen and Giovanni Colella, MD, the company is backed by leading investors GV (formerly Google Ventures), KKR, Oak HC/FT, and Threshold. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions.

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Fostering Solidarity on the Front Lines Through Stories

Society for Participatory Medicine

We thank you, the doctors, nurses, physician assistants, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, other allied health care professionals, environmental services, support staff, and many other frontline health care workers for the infinite courage and compassion that you are showing—morning, day, and night—in caring for those affected by COVID-19.

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What Healthcare Can Learn from Mr. Rogers

Society for Participatory Medicine

Physicians and nurses might borrow his approach in speaking to their patients with language they can understand and with reverence for their patient’s reaction to potentially disastrous news. We are often hit with devastating news that is difficult to process at best and can be equally debilitating.

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Paying for value. I’m overwhelmed. Please read this.

Society for Participatory Medicine

Right now, most measures are diagnosis-specific for one setting (home, hospital, nursing home). To facilitate development of cross-program measures, consider a different organizing structure for measure development contracts/projects that cuts across programs. But people aren’t their diagnosis and they spend time in many settings.