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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

These new ideas and technologies are only successful, however, if enough people collectively take notice and talk about it in order to make it trend. This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend. FHIR, HL7).

Health IT 101
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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Hospital Care at Home progranm will use connected health and remote patient monitoring tools that will connect patients to the Orlando Health Patient Care Hub for 24/7 virtual care by nurses and providers, in addition to in-person nursing check-ins daily. THE LARGER TREND. 15 and 16 from noon-4 p.m.

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

Many stories about hospitals being unable to provide rapid care to patients experiencing medical emergencies and longs delays for others are simply heart-wrenching to hear. Healthcare workers, from doctors and nurses to administrative staff, are often overwhelmed with critical patient care responsibilities and day-to-day operations.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursing home, community clinic, etc. iRhythm is supporting physicians and patients during COVID-19 by expanding its home enrollment offering so more patients can receive and apply the patch at home and avoid potential exposure by going to a clinic or hospital.

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Ambulatory surgery center's virtual care platform helps boost productivity and patient satisfaction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We also had hired a nurse navigator to gather the patient's pre-operative information and make patient calls ahead of time." We've hired more nurse navigators to enable the greater volume. As an ambulatory surgery center, it has to be very intentional about collecting readmission data from the regional hospital.

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HIStalk Interviews Ron Remy, CEO, Mobile Heartbeat

HIStalk Interviews

It’s designed for acute care and affiliated ambulatory facilities of hospitals. It runs on IOS and Android smartphones and is available both on-premise, with servers inside the hospital’s data room, or a cloud offering via our cloud partner, Parallon Technology Solutions. Take Lean thinking and apply it to your workflow.

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A hospital without patients

Henry Kotula

Louis, nestled among locust, elm and sweetgum trees, the Mercy Virtual Care Center has a lot in common with other hospitals. It has nurses and doctors and a cafeteria, and the staff spend their days looking after the very sick?checking The nurses wear scrubs, but the scrubs are very, very clean. The patients are elsewhere.

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