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Inpatient telemedicine improves care and patient satisfaction at Howard University Hospital

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In March 2020, the number of new COVID-19 infections was rapidly increasing in Washington. With no vaccination or specific treatment on the horizon, Howard University Hospital, an academic medical center in the district, prepared for a major surge of COVID-19 patients. Patients were surveyed by Press Ganey.

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Nurse unions slam Kaiser's advanced care at home strategy

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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. "The Advanced Care at Home Program does not limit the role of nurses in hospitals."

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Hospital at home program helps Island Health boost patient satisfaction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare IT News sat down with Spina to glean his insights on the Hospital at Home program in a preview of his upcoming HIMSS22 educational session , "A Hospital at Home Program Raised Patient Satisfaction." What are a couple of the potential benefits that a hospital at home program can provide for patients and providers?

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CIOs looking to expand telehealth and make it part of the permanent workflow

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hospitals and health systems have very quickly deployed a lot of telemedicine systems to take care of patients during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Equipping every patient room with telehealth capabilities and virtual access provides caregivers with immediate access to patients for a variety of use cases.

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Metro Health's telehealth and RPM program is helping patients avoid hospital stays

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Metro Health/University of Michigan Health is an osteopathic teaching hospital serving more than 250,000 patients per year throughout western Michigan. Metro Health had been exploring telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) vendors for almost two years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. THE PROBLEM.

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Albert Einstein Medical Center serves up telehealth from 4 vendors with FCC grant

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These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. Patient and staff safety, which are primary concerns, were especially critical after the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent mandatory shut-downs nationally. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Sparrow Health System uses pandemic lessons to expand its virtual care strategic plan

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Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself. – 8 a.m.)

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