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HIMSSCast: The nursing shortage – how health IT helps and harms

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Most healthcare professionals are well aware of the nurse shortage that America faces today. In this HIMSSCast podcast, we'll be digging into this crisis and the role played, both good and bad, by healthcare information technology. Talking points: What's at the heart of the nurse shortage today?

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Featured Health IT Job: Staff Nurse III – Information Technology at Natividad

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Staff Nurse III – Information Technology at Natividad position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Natividad and is in Salinas, California.

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Health IT: Buy or Sell – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 109

Healthcare IT Today

For the 109th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are back with everyone’s favorite game, Health IT: Buy or Sell! In these episodes we look at different Health IT topics and debate over if we believe that it will happen (i.e. IT salaries in healthcare will continue to go up. we sell it). we sell it).

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Providence forges a new path with a virtual nursing unit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual nursing is gaining significant momentum as an effective way to redesign and redistribute nursing workload. Virtual models decrease the burden on nurses delivering direct bedside patient care and leverages nurses that want to continue practicing but may not be able to practice at the bedside by extending their nursing careers.

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Nurses! ? Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 36

Healthcare IT Today

For the 36th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Nurses! This month is Nurses month and so we thought what better way to celebrate nurses than to make it the topic of our show. Nurses and Trust in Healthcare. Technology and Nurse Burnout. Scheduling and Nurses .

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Automation Drives Optimal Use of Temp Nurses

Healthcare IT Today

ShiftMed serves hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and in-home providers. On the nurses’ side, staff want high-quality placements at times that are convenient for them. ShiftMed also collects data on their nurses and institutions to look for possible process improvements.

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Baptist Health is making virtual nursing work, and gaining big ROI

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Nurses have been in high demand for years, and especially since the pandemic. As baby boomers continue to age, the demand for bedside nursing continues to increase. "We tried to build our model around the notion that each patient will now have two nurses coordinating their care."

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