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Telehealth Technology Helps Prevent Nurse Burnout — Here’s How

AMD Telemedicine

Long hours, poor work-life balance, lack of mental healthcare, increases in verbal and sometimes physical attacks by patients, and lack of support from leadership have all been cited as contributing factors. Preparing Nurses to Embrace Telehealth Technology. Reducing Burnout Among Nurses.

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Why digital equity is important to conducting better telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Prior to the pandemic, telehealth wasn't really taking off all that much; it was kind of a very long, slow growth without a high level of adoption," said Fisne of Geisinger. In fact, growth has been exponential, and it has been very positive in terms of making the patient experience even better."

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Q&A with CIO Ray Lowe, Part 2: “It’s a lot of Communication, Training and Support.”

Health System CIO

Source: Q&A with CIO Ray Lowe, Part 2: “It’s a lot of Communication, Training and Support.” With our thought leadership and partnerships, we can think through how to solve many complex problems,” he said during a recent interview. One of the early lessons learned in training physicians on video visits?

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Providence forges a new path with a virtual nursing unit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Leveraging our deep experience in telemedicine, it made sense to apply bidirectional audio/video technology to assist our nursing colleagues in addressing some of the issues we hoped to alleviate as we piloted a new model of nursing care," Trepanier said. Executive sponsorship/leadership.

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers.

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Maimonides Medical Center completes massive digital health initiative in two years

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In 2018, Maimonides' leadership established digital health as a strategic priority for the medical center. "Our long-term goal is to advance and evolve digital capabilities that ensure optimum patient experience and benefit from innovations that allow for seamless care access and delivery. THE PROBLEM.