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How one triage center delivers more culturally sensitive mental health and addiction care

Healthcare It News

In the face of high addiction rates, mounting mental health crises, and daily reports of overdoses and suicides in the United States, a community triage center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has come up with a novel care approach that can be replicated around the world.

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Geisinger gets USDA rural development grant for inpatient virtual nursing

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WHY IT MATTERS With the grant, disbursed as part of the USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine program, will be used to outfit Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital with new telehealth technologies as part of Geisinger's Virtual Nursing Program, which launched this past year.

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CIO shows what a service center can do for patient access and experience

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That session, The Access Game Changer: Service Center and Technology’s Role , will be presented by Jim Feen, Southcoast Health's chief information officer, next month in Orlando. We asked Jim Feen a few questions about how the service center has been working for Southcoast and what HIMSS24 attendees can learn from his session.

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In Saudi Arabia, machine learning model helps reduce outpatient no-shows

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MNGHA comprises more than 30 hospitals, specialty hospitals and primary care centers across Saudi Arabia, with all facilities linked to a unified EHR system called BESTCare. "Advanced analytics, prediction and machine learning." That gives the "advantage of having a huge amount of data," Al Ghamdi explained.

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Lurie Children's has resumed email communications after cyberattack

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"As MyChart remains offline for the time being, the call center continues to be the best way for patient families to reach providers and service lines." "We have learned some hard lessons," said John Riggi, the American Hospital Association's cyber risk advisor at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum in September.

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Telehealth can play a vital role in reducing carbon emissions

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The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center built a dashboard to estimate the environmental impact of the medical facility's telehealth offerings. By examining the reduced travel enabled by virtual care, the center's IT and sustainability team calculated gasoline usage and carbon emissions.

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Four States Selected to Participate in NASHP’s Third Health and Housing Institute

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Core state team members include state leadership from Medicaid, housing, behavioral health, aging, disabilities, governor’s office, public health, and corrections divisions. NASHP is also hosting a state-only Health and Housing Learning Community which is open to all state officials interested in participating.

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