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Exploring the Benefits of Remote Care for Skilled Nursing Facilities

care innovations

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. This, in turn, enables care teams “to work together to track decline or progress,” Li notes.

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Former Amazon medical officer examines Surgeon General's clinician burnout warning

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Murthy’s warning to the industry was that unless significant steps are taken to reduce the crisis of stress, exhaustion and burnout among physicians, nurses and other clinicians, the nation’s health will suffer through worsening of access to care and quality of care due to lack of resources.

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What is the Future of Virtual Wards?

Lloyd Price

In a virtual ward, patients are typically monitored through a combination of remote monitoring technology, such as wearable devices and sensors, and regular communication with healthcare professionals, such as nurses and doctors. It is important to ensure that virtual ward programs are designed with health equity in mind.

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What is the Future of Virtual Wards for patients, providers and payers?

Lloyd Price

In a virtual ward, patients are typically monitored through a combination of remote monitoring technology, such as wearable devices and sensors, and regular communication with healthcare professionals, such as nurses and doctors. It is important to ensure that virtual ward programs are designed with health equity in mind.

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Nordic HealthTech: one of the most dynamic and innovative in the world

Lloyd Price

In the future, AI is expected to play an even greater role in healthcare, helping to improve diagnosis and treatment, and freeing up doctors and nurses to focus on more complex tasks. The use of telemedicine to provide remote care: Telemedicine is the use of telecommunications technology to provide medical care remotely.

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Health Information Security – My Interview with Richard Kaufmann, CISO of Amedisys – Part 1: Origin Stories, the Security Ecosystem, and the Start Line

Health Populi

One of the most impactful experiences of my career was working with our hospice nurses during the height of COVID. Our hospice nurses overcome this uncomfortableness daily. Hospice nurses showed up every day just so their patients, some of them carrying a highly infectious disease, were comfortable in their final days.

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Tech and the future of care work – five research midpoint observations

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Each interviewee was asked for thoughts in the context of the categories suggested by ChatGPT and any other categories that will improve the work processes for those in the care-related industries – home care, home healthcare, senior living care (including nursing homes), and hospital discharge processes to any of those.

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