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Lighting the Way to Efficient Patient Care – How Interoperability and Analytics Change the Nurse Call Paradigm

Healthcare IT Today

Of course, with this growth of technology we’ve also seen the growth of burnout and alert fatigue as devices send off warnings that aren’t useful and the volume of alerts that a nurse is getting is overwhelming. Plus, they look at how interoperability can help address this problem and provide valuable analytics.

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The Quiet Hospital Unit and Other Benefits of an Open and Interoperable Communication Platform

Healthcare IT Today

For instance, if the patient is just asking for a pillow, the call goes to a technician instead of a nurse. This relieves the nurses of trivial tasks and lets them “practice at the top of their licenses.” Virtual nursing is also easier with seamless communications.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. What should be trending right now in health IT? We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g., The following is what they had to share with us.

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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

In this video, you can hear about the technologies and regulations needed in LTPAC from Bill Charnetski, Executive Vice President, Health System Solutions and Government Affairs at PointClickCare. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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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. There will be more robots in hospitals than nurses in 10 years. we sell it). we sell it).

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions. Kelly Conklin, Chief Clinical Officer at PerfectServe.

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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Health Populi

In 2014, ECRI pivoted the title of this annual report to “patient safety concerns,” a nuance away from health technology. In its recommendations for action, ECRI notes that health care providers cannot solve this crisis themselves, but can take specific actions to address the pediatric mental health crisis.