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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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Memorial Healthcare finds success with switch to Epic-based telehealth vendor

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A South Florida-based academic medical center, Memorial operates six hospitals, including the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital; numerous primary, urgent and 24/7 care facilities; a health specialty center; and a nursing home.

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The Doctor Will See You Now…At Home? The AMA Launches a Health at Home Framework

Health Populi

Logistics and operations addresses information processing, sharing, analyzing, and management — requiring interoperability and data liquidity, along with “nutritious” AI underpinning the analyses to ensure health equity-by-design. .”

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“Complexity is Profitable” in U.S. Healthcare – How to Save a Quarter-Trillion Dollars

Health Populi

health care employment since 2001, today accounting for twice as many staff as physicians and nurses. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Consider just the line item of “customer and patient services,” and one of all of our least-favorite patient experiences: the dreaded call center.

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Paving the Digital Roadmap for the Patient Journey

Healthcare IT Today

Dragged into this rapid shift, healthcare organizations adopted a plethora of communication endpoints without assessing their core attributes: adaptability, functionality, interoperability, effectiveness, and reliability. The result of these data silos is decentralized data tracing, distributed workforce, and lack of interoperability.

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Discern Health Ties Interventions to Patient Improvements

Healthcare IT Today

Pinho would also like Discern Health’s analytics to help patients; families, decreasing their financial, physical, and emotional burdens. One of the strengths they cite for Discern Health is the large number of doctors and nurses on their staff, providing clinical validation.

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