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Enhancing hospital IT's speed-to-market capability

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Take the case of Mount Alvernia Hospital, a 300-bed private not-for-profit medical institution in Singapore. " Bruce Leong, Director of Technology and Strategy, Mount Alvernia Hospital As part of their DNA, innovation also aligns with the hospital's digital transformation strategy to stay agile.

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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

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Orlando Health on Monday announced that it's been approved by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration to start delivering hospital-level acute care in adult patients’ homes. And Allina Health spinoff Inbound Health announced its plans to help other providers develop home-based acute care and skilled nursing models.

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Roundup: Sun Pharma reports IT breach and more briefs

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Sikkim hospital upgrades to smart connected beds The Central Referral Hospital of the Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences-Tadong has tied up with Dozee to enable continuous patient monitoring. It is said that the upgrade is part of CRH's initiatives to transition to a smart hospital.

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Asynchronous video for pre-op boosts patient and staff experience

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THE PROBLEM Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center (TBRHSC) staff know that with limited health resources throughout Northwestern Ontario, it's very important they work together across all hospitals that provide surgical services to improve access to care for remote and rural patients. They understand us and what we are trying to do."

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CMS: Hospital-To-Home Discharge Process Still Plagued By Poor Communication, Incomplete Patient Information

Home Health Care

Patient transitions from the hospital to post-acute care providers, including home health agencies, continue to be plagued by incomplete medical records and missing information. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is calling out hospitals for putting patients and their families in harm’s way. “CMS

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How Georgetown Home Care Continues to Lower Readmission Rates for Hospital Partners

Home Health Care

based Georgetown Home Care (GHC) has yet again lowered readmission rates for a major hospital. Its readmission success ostensibly began in 2019 when the home care agency first worked with spinal surgery patients at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. They kept seeing data on the readmission problem with hospitals.

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Hospital-acquired Pneumonia is Killing Patients. There’s a Simple Way to Stop It.

Briggs Healthcare

Kaiser Health News published this eye-opening piece – Hospital-acquired pneumonia is killing patients. Hospital patients not getting their teeth brushed, or not brushing their teeth themselves, is believed to be a leading cause of hundreds of thousands of cases of pneumonia a year in patients who have not been put on a ventilator.