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UW Medicine CIO's advice: prepping IT systems for COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Infection concerns drive us to be creative with the use of remote options to provide services, and there are access and supply issues for necessary IT tools just as there are for clinical infection control supplies." Jane Fellner, a UW Medicine physician who provides clinical guidance for EHR changes.

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Nursing home transparency needs more than Covid-19 case-counting

Aging in Place Technology Watch

At the same time, a recent survey underpins the staff shortages and problematic infection control procedures. Take the current data sets about Covid-19 infections, add complaints and other items well-documented over time. category tags: Seniors , SNF , senior living. Measure – and we can see.

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Nursing homes and Covid-19 – defensiveness persists 

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Note the item already in the current reporting process: " Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading."] Then add in the guideline assessment elements – hopefully these staff-to-resident ratios. category tags: SNF , Seniors , Aging , healthcare , covid-19. Pipe dream? Rant off. .

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We knew we needed to create an environment of safety while still retaining control over our patients' recovery journey. " Then there are lower readmission and infection rates. Since it implemented the platform, that rate has dropped to one infection out of 1,800 surgeries.

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Nursing homes and Covid-19 – defensiveness and obfuscation persist 

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Note the item already in the current reporting process: " Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading."] Then add in the guideline assessment elements – hopefully these staff-to-resident ratios. category tags: SNF , Seniors , Aging , healthcare , covid-19. Pipe dream? Rant off. .

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Beyond telehealth: the virtual care technology trends that will transform healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Self-triaging and contact tracing for COVID-19 infection detection are among the new breed of digital health applications that startups to big firms alike were looking at to seize the emerging opportunities. Routine examinations are also going virtual, with many diagnostic procedures now possible through remotely controlled devices.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

“For providers, this manifested as a loss of control. For example, if a patient’s blood tests come back and I need to discuss with him how to manage high cholesterol, I can schedule a telehealth visit instead of playing phone tag. ” Telehealth adoption also decreases exposure for contagious infections, she noted.