Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By Martin Jones Current and emerging medtech change how hospitals, clinics, and medical practices deliver care. Leaders adopt emerging medtech to support short- and long-term cost-reduction and error-prevention goals. In addition, centralized command centers help doctors and RNs manage capacity, equipment and supplies.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 15, 2024

The agency brings therapy dogs into initial assessments and bi-weekly hospital visits. For somebody with Parkinson’s, it’s not practical to be taking an entire day to go for a doctor’s appointment or an hour-long program. It provides personal care services in 30 states.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Hospital Authority has made significant achievements over the past years in digitising its processes and ways of delivering care to patients and communities. Recently, it also began working on projects that contribute to its vision of a smart hospital. However, its digital transformation journey is far from over.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

Note that this framework has been developed by the AMA, the largest professional organization of doctors. As we start at this fairly nascent moment in the hospital-to-home movement and migration in the U.S., The post The Doctor Will See You Now…At Home? An aging U.S.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 25, 2022

Louisville-based ScionHealth system, the combined LifePoint Health and Kindred Healthcare delivery network, and Cadence, a New York-based healthcare technology company, are implementing a remote patient monitoring platform starting with 18 community hospitals in 12 states. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home. Home-based health technologies are any preventive care technology tool that elevates health. "Also, because hospitals are often so short-staffed, they sometimes can’t accept patients right away."

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Bill Of Health

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Want to help make a big change for our nation’s overworked doctors? 834 , the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act to confront the country’s growing shortage of doctors. Take both worst-case scenarios, and we are short 125,100 doctors. Certain categories of hospitals will each receive at least ten percent of the positions.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Innovation in diagnostics, however, is not just vital to advancing disease surveillance and early detection to help prevent the next pandemic. Why we need a preventive approach. The future of diagnostics, and the preventive health movement it serves, lies in harnessing the power of data. Creating a holistic picture of health.

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CHQ Healthcare

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But they also have the hard-learned experience and advice to help you avoid these situations in your own hospital or health system. Here are a few of our favorite locum tenens horror stories along with ways you can prevent them from haunting your doorstep! Could it have been prevented with more screening? A locums…impersonator?

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Indian government is upgrading its COVID-19 vaccination platform, CoWIN, to digitally track people's vaccination status against common preventable diseases, including measles, rubella and COVID-19. The programme targets around 26 million newborns each year, offering vaccination for 12 vaccine-preventable diseases.

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Patient Safety Movement

JULY 31, 2023

One of the great sources of frustration for everyone working within the field of patient safety is that many of the solutions we need to prevent harm are already available. The shameful reality is that it can take up to 17 years between the publication of protocols for preventing harm, and their actual implementation in the clinic.

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Patient Safety Movement

JULY 31, 2023

One of the great sources of frustration for everyone working within the field of patient safety is that many of the solutions we need to prevent harm are already available. The shameful reality is that it can take up to 17 years between the publication of protocols for preventing harm, and their actual implementation in the clinic.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2024

Solving for misalignment between payers and providers When focusing on the hospital and acute care implications, CMS transparency data showed that 25% of all hospital claim denials were related to medical necessity and accounted for 30% of all denial write-offs, resulting in significant losses for care already provided.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

And that includes heart health, which is ubiquitous at #CES2023 if you consider the holistic journey of the consumer and her heart, from prevention and fitness to tracking and treatment, and care at home — clinical, social, and nutrition.

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CHQ Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Suicide is a preventable tragedy, and all too often it’s the outcome of the stigma, shame, and silence associated with mental illness. Amy Vinson, assistant professor of anaesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School , and chair of the Committee on Physician Wellbeing for the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

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Healthcare Success

JULY 25, 2022

Not only that, but many doctors and nurses are choosing to retire early or leave their professions altogether. Many people, including some prominent people who should know better, mistakenly believe COVID is a scam or overstated in order to make hospitals rich. I guarantee most hospitals and healthcare systems are not getting rich.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

There has been a public perception that telehealth and virtual care consist solely of having a virtual doctor’s visit when you feel ill or following up on a routine treatment. And while that is a part of it, it is not the complete telehealth story. In many ways, virtual care helped define the pandemic.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

Defaulting to in-person visits takes up a lot more time and money for both patients and doctors. So, it’s simply the most efficient allocation and utilization of scarce resources – doctor time, patient time and money. laws regarding telemedicine need to evolve to make it sustainable for people in the long term.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 3, 2023

Three of the most stubborn and dangerous healthcare-associated infections are on the rise in acute care settings across the country, according to the Leapfrog Group, which published its spring 2023 Hospital Safety Grades on Wednesday. THE LARGER TREND Leapfrog also had some criticism for hospitals in another area.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Chinese government is focusing on smart hospital construction to meet the perceived increase in healthcare services demand over the coming years. It has identified the three core tenets, or "trinity," of smart hospital development, which includes smart medicine.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

HEALWELL AI to acquire majority control of Pentavere HEALWELL AI debuted last month after partnering with WELL Health Technologies, which provides a digital healthcare operations platform, to launch AI-based decision support to advance early disease diagnosis and improve preventative care.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes. Brian Zack, system medical director for digital health at University Hospitals and associate chief medical officer at Ahuja Medical Center.

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CiscoHealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

Like most healthcare organizations, they needed to pivot when stay at home orders and social distancing limited patients from coming into clinics and hospitals for preventative and chronic care. . The post Georgia Department of Public Health: Keeping Doctors and Patients Connected appeared first on Cisco Blogs.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2023

Staffing shortages, budget cuts and low patient volumes coming out of the pandemic have forced some rural hospitals to shut their doors, with 19 closures in 2020 alone. Family members may have to take them to and from appointments or doctors may have to travel to their homes, which can become a burden on family and caretakers.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2024

doctors, suggesting a potential shift in the overall mental well-being of this critical workforce. Similarly, the percentage of doctors experiencing depression dropped from 23% to 20%. Professional Stress: The Root of the Problem 83% of doctors cited professional stress as the primary contributor to their burnout and/or depression.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

While policy solutions varied across states, consolidation of hospitals and providers — specifically the impacts on price for consumers and employers created by increased market power — continues to be a bipartisan concern across legislatures.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. Primary care doctors and specialists. Hospitals, medical centers, and long-term care providers. It can be in the form of medications, tests, procedures, preventative measures, etc. It consists of.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. Primary care doctors and specialists. Hospitals, medical centers, and long-term care providers. It can be in the form of medications, tests, procedures, preventative measures, etc. It consists of.

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Bill Of Health

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By Alma Beltrán y Puga This past weekend marked the 25 th of November, a day to remember that all manifestations of gender-based violence should be prevented and eliminated in health procedures. A wide range of physical and psychological mistreatment during childbirth in public and private hospitals can constitute obstetric violence.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Maybe the larger library branches designate reading rooms or purchase telehealth kiosks so that patrons can schedule a time or drop in to have private, secure telehealth sessions with their doctor in "real time." Re-imagining what hospital care can be, one of the few good things learned from the pandemic.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 4, 2023

Monitoring and maintaining the security of IT infrastructure is often overemphasized within hospitals and health systems, while the human side of reducing risk is often under-emphasized. The answer is training, continual training to help create a culture of security within your hospital or health system.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2024

Yet, despite their prevalence, little is known about how doctors identify and manage these risks in real-time. Unveiling the Decision-Making Maze Led by Dr. Michael Weiner and Dr. Alissa Russ-Jara, the research team meticulously analyzed doctors’ thought processes while navigating potential drug interactions.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 13, 2024

The topic of the hearing is especially pressing because individuals living in rural communities often face barriers that prevent them from receiving adequate care. Dr. Nathan Starr, the medical director of home services for Intermountain Health, gave testimony that deemed essential providers’ ability to move care away from hospitals.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

That noise she referred to as having to know when your last colonoscopy was instead of your doctor having that at their fingertips. " For too many patients, "healthcare is still broken: unaffordable, biased – and largely still based on acute care rather than prevention," he said.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 19, 2024

In this pivotal role, Gall will be instrumental in furthering Collette Health’s mission of integrating virtual patient safety solutions to prevent falls and adverse events while enhancing patient outcomes.

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