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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The coronavirus pandemic is throwing a new factor into hospitals' calculations about how to proceed with current and future healthcare IT implementations.

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In a nutshell: technology and progress in health IT

KevinMD

We have a new electronic medical health record system at our hospital. It is frankly a pain in the neck to access the computer from outside the hospital due to the multiple layers of. It is frankly a pain in the neck to access the computer from outside the hospital due to the multiple layers of. Find out how.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" As healthcare professionals reflect on how teams pulled together and made the impossible possible, they should recalibrate their perspectives on colleagues and team members, she added. "We should use this information to tackle problems differently," she concluded. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Asynchronous video for pre-op boosts patient and staff experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" MEETING THE CHALLENGE TBRHSC automated the pre-op messaging for all surgeries across Northwestern Ontario surgical hospitals.

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“It Still Sucks.”

Insulin Nation

The Type 1 community often looks to those who have had Type 1 diabetes for decades to find pearls of wisdom for how to stay healthy long-term with the condition. It’s been a few years since I have had to be in hospital. It still sucks.”. Yes, we imagine it does. Thank you, Darlene for sharing this.

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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

Healthcare IT Today

With 185 hospitals, it takes effort for HCA to maintain good quality health data across their entire organization. But poor quality data also happens when every facility uses a different term for a social security number. That is a much more complex data quality challenge.”

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. Another challenge is the continuing prevalence of free text rather than codified data. Nick Stepro, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Arcadia There are several trends in health IT that I see few people talking about: 1.

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