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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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Swift Medical Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of New CCO and CIO

Digital Health Global

Prior to that, he held leadership positions at Accolade Health (personalized care delivery navigation and advocacy), nuVizz (hospital system logistics), and Pinn (healthcare cybersecurity). Most recently, Sharma served as Executive Vice President at Sword Health, a trailblazer in digital physical therapy that Sharma helped scale to a $1.8B

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

Healthcare IT Today

Even though skilled nursing facilities, long-care homes and retirement facilities are highly regulated, Charnetski says that regulators don’t really understand the industry’s needs. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

In addition, AVIA published its Top Interoperability Companies Report , with Andor Health topping the list. Real-time location service provider Navenio is integrating with Pavion ‘s nurse call system. Frost & Sullivan recognized the Inovalon ONE Platform with the 2023 North American Product Leadership Award.

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Discern Health Ties Interventions to Patient Improvements

Healthcare IT Today

One of the strengths they cite for Discern Health is the large number of doctors and nurses on their staff, providing clinical validation. View the video with Discern Health for details about interoperability, making data work for patient improvement, and more.

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

Health Populi

These actions include leadership support and resources to shift the organization’s culture toward behavioral health needs, patient and family engagement tactics, and warm handoffs to pediatric mental health services in the community, among many other constructive recommendations.

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These Three Things Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level

Healthcare IT Today

Drawing from this experience on both sides of the equation, I believe the next generation of EHRs can better meet the needs of all involved with better usability, interoperability, and flexibility. Enhancing Interoperability In addition to greater usability, EHRs need better data-sharing capabilities to bring real value to the clinical space.

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