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Nurses: The Force for Change

Mobile Health Matters

This week marks National Nurses Week in the U.S., both a celebration of the profession and an opportunity to educate the public about the role nurses play in healthcare and their communities. Nurses Driving Change. Nurses’ primary focus is on the quality of care, comfort and safety of their patients.

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Asynchronous video for pre-op boosts patient and staff experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"While we had invested in an app to deliver this information to patients in written form, most of the pre-surgical information was delivered verbally by doctors, nurses and staff, in addition to a paper packet," she continued. "The verbal repetition was incredibly time-consuming for our clinical staff.

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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Orlando Health on Monday announced that it's been approved by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration to start delivering hospital-level acute care in adult patients’ homes. And Allina Health spinoff Inbound Health announced its plans to help other providers develop home-based acute care and skilled nursing models.

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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"The main problems we wanted to address with our telehealth platform prior to COVID-19 surrounded our goals of expanding the reach of our clinical care services and allowing our clinicians to meet our patients at their convenience to avoid unnecessary long commutes to our city campus," he said. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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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. Adopting a cloud-based security approach can promote agility in meeting customer needs and improve the resilience of a healthcare organization’s cybersecurity response.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Rather, our patients, physicians and nurses have grown accustomed to digital health over years of incremental and foundational work, and all came rushing to make this the new normal." " Eric Jimenez, Artesia General Hospital. "We experienced first-hand that this was never about a pivot," he related.