Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Acurio Health's soon-to-open private paediatric and maternity facility The George Centre in southwest Sydney will be equipped with nurse call solutions by health IT provider Rauland Australia. million) private paediatric facility which is set to open in the middle of 2023. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Research published this week in Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that COVID-19 patients who received care at Mayo Clinic had favorable outcomes compared to those reported nationally. According to the Mayo Clinic, 7,891 COVID-19-positive patients who were treated between March 1 and July 31 were included in the research.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2020

Social distancing is a key factor in reducing the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and tele-visits can be a safe and secure means for providers to deliver certain types of care for their patients. The area continues to face an increase in severe COVID-19 cases that require hospitalization – overwhelming many hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2020

"This exercise of discretion applies to telehealth provided for any reason, regardless of whether the telehealth service is related to the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions related to COVID-19."

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. Older and medically vulnerable people who continue to face high risk of COVID-19 illness after vaccination should not be asked to wait in line behind adults who refused vaccines. By Govind Persad, Monica Peek, and Seema Shah.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

"Nurses, doctors, and hospital staff working in extremely harsh and dangerous settings have reported that their stress was greatly reduced through this system," Kim shared. It has six points: technological value, data, operational efficiency, medical service quality, user experience, and post-implementation.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 31, 2022

The findings come as hospitals face major hurdles recruiting and retaining enough staff two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and as healthcare workers and unions push for higher wages.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Demand for contract labor is now being driven by core staff vacancies, rather than high volumes of COVID-19 patients.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The answer to why lies in a perennially stressed post-acute care chassis driven to the brink by COVID-19. Large hospital operators reported increasing lengths of stay and difficulties discharging patients in the first half of 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

GE Healthcare has introduced a new cloud-based remote-monitoring tool designed to help clinicians look after ventilated COVID-19 patients. Delivered via Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, the tool is meant to help hospitals preserve clinical resources as more patients are admitted for COVID-19 treatment, according to the company.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2020

Hard data on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis is difficult to come by, because many providers are enlisting all hands in handling the surge of cases, said Bob Cash, vice president of provider relations for KLAS. " Some key IT staff in provider organizations are feeling the brunt of the COVID-19 surge, said Cash of KLAS.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

"While much has been reported on doctor and nurse burnout, less attention has been paid to the frontline clinical support staff who have been working tirelessly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure high-quality patient care was maintained," read the report. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

hospitals manage the crush of new patients as the COVID-19 crisis worsens. "With new areas across the country experiencing significant challenges to the capacity of their health care systems, our job is to make sure that CMS regulations are not standing in the way of patient care for COVID-19 and beyond."

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 26, 2021

One of the greatest health concerns of modern society is nursing shortages in different states across the world. The prevalence and impacts of the recent Covid-19 pandemic have taught the world that professional nurses and […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 12, 2021

In a recent study, researchers associated more favorable electronic health record usability scores with lower odds of burnout among nurses. Unfortunately, that study also found that nurses scored their EHR usability at an F – which seems to bode ill for workplace satisfaction in an already stressful environment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

But with the arrival of COVID-19, the organization was challenged with revisiting its telehealth strategy to reduce virus spread while still providing essential care services to its rural communities. "First, the COVID Clinic, a process for coronavirus screening," Burchett said. Virtual care for non-COVID-19 patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2022

Northern Health is expanding the access to its virtual emergency department service to people living in residential aged care facilities and COVID-19 patients being treated at home via the COVID-19 Positive Pathway Program. This week, COVID-19 cases in Victoria went above 10,000 with nearly 900 people hospitalised.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has been pushing the limits of the healthcare systems in many European countries, among them, Spain, where COVID-19 is causing thousands of deaths and is requiring an unprecedented amount of medical resources. IT teams have worked tirelessly to ensure the EHR is accessible at every point of care.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 18, 2021

One of the greatest health concerns of modern society is nursing shortages in different states across the world. The prevalence and impacts of the recent Covid-19 pandemic have taught the world that professional nurses and […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 7, 2022

"Our first COVID-19 patient arrived in March," she said. " Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to hit hospitals hard, leading to both enduring and novel challenges. .'s Sickbay platform for their artificial intelligence tools. Their intensivists were employed through Equum Medical.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 10, 2022

Providers are seeing expenses tied to salaries and benefits accelerate due to staffing shortages exacerbated by COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 24, 2020

In the same way, said panelists, members of the healthcare industry should be willing to develop and use tools to continue fighting the COVID-19 pandemic – and to prepare for any future crises. Now, consumers have grown accustomed to leveraging technology for travel. " Dr. John Halamka, Mayo Clinic Platform president.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2025

The government will invest in the new service, which is expected to "provide all New Zealanders with better access to video consultations with New Zealand-registered clinicians, such as GPs and nurse practitioners." " It will also enable GPs and nurses to issue prescriptions and make referrals for laboratory tests.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 29, 2024

A nurse by training, Tim Ashe, chief clinical officer at Wellsky, knows the challenges that burnout, staffing shortages and bed capacity have on clinicians and the health system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

The Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of 2020, bipartisan legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, aims to enable more widespread use of telehealth in skilled nursing facilities. WHY IT MATTERS. The RUSH Act – introduced in companion bills from Sens. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2025

Like many rural healthcare organizations, the facility relies heavily on advanced practice providers – nurse practitioners and physician associates. "Another major hurdle we faced was a lack of adequate resources to manage the growing complexity of patient care, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic," she continued.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One of the most important lessons from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic needs to be about health surveillance of marginalized health populations — indeed, “who counts depends on who is counted.”. This data gap had serious and sometimes fatal implications for people with IDD during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association released a joint statement this past week criticizing Kaiser Permanente's aims to expand advanced hospital services into patients' homes. "Nurses, more than any other healthcare staff, spend the most time with patients," said the unions in the statement.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Dr Anne Snowdon, HIMSS Analytics' Chief Scientific Research Officer, moderated the discussion. Patient expectations.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It comprises a sensor patch and a finger oximeter linked to a central system or dashboard at the nurses' workstation where they can view and check patients' conditions at any time. The wearable sensor's accuracy and usability have been validated in two studies involving warded patients with respiratory diseases and COVID-19.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The omicron variant is posing new challenges as staff call in sick or quit their jobs entirely for higher-paying traveling nurse positions. That's leaving hospitals in a bind as they treat higher acuity COVID-19 patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

It's National Nurses Week 2024 , and it's time to celebrate the more than 5 million RNs nationwide who are so essential to care delivery. But overshadowing the celebration are many challenges impacting the nursing workforce. Feds, states take up nurse staffing The past four years have been especially tough on nurses, of course.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

during pandemics like COVID-19) or when families were geographically distant. during pandemics like COVID-19) or when families were geographically distant. The app was first piloted in hospitals that served regions with a high volume of patients unable to receive visitors regularly, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 5, 2024

Besides being able to view immunisation history and COVID-19 test results, users can now also view and update the details of their National Health Index, High Use Health Card and Community Services Card. They can also view the COVID-19 results and some NHI details of their children whose accounts are linked to theirs.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 3, 2022

In January 2021, the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness went live with LouVax, a vaccine scheduling and management system focused on increasing access to the COVID-19 vaccine. After operating on paper for a few weeks, the agency launched the tool.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

" When the pandemic hit, University Hospitals' use of automation to manage care for people with chronic conditions prompted it to consider: How could it leverage automation as a patient-facing symptom-checker for COVID-19? Employees used the screener more than two million times.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 13, 2021

In late March of last year, Frank Cutitta was admitted to a Boston-area hospital with COVID-19. From his frustration with patient portal updates to his adulation of the noble shower chair, Cutitta observed which high-tech – and not-so-high-tech – tools he relied on throughout his battle with COVID-19.

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