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St. Luke's finds success with its Hospital In Your Home program

Healthcare It News

Luke's Health System, an 11-hospital network based in Kansas City, Missouri, initiated its Hospital In Your Home care model in July 2022 to reduce costs, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience. The HIYH model provided an opportunity to expand capacity without construction of new hospital beds.

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Maimonides Medical Center completes massive digital health initiative in two years

Healthcare It News

It is Brooklyn's largest hospital, with more than 600 beds, 6,500 staff, 43,000 annual inpatient discharges and 600,000 annual outpatient encounters. It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations.

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Coping with Crises: Using Telemedicine to Deliver Effective Virtual Critical Care

HIT Consultant

NETCCN and its partners, including Avel eCare, worked quickly to connect remote community hospitals with skilled critical care clinicians using telemedicine technology. Hospitals without ICUs lack trained critical care clinicians. During the coronavirus crisis, we saw the impact this had on care.

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Shift Happens

Geek Doctor

using ICD9 and then switching to ICD10) Changes in patient population resulting from hospital mergers Other potential problems to be cognizant of include changes in your facility’s EHR system. Similarly, one of our algorithms broke when a vendor did a point release in its software and changed the format of the results.

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Remembering The Forgotten Patients

Healthcare Leadership

In The Overlooked Danger of Delirium in Hospitals , Sandra Boodman shares: Researchers estimate that about 40 percent of delirium cases are preventable. The Overlooked Danger of Delirium in Hospitals” Sandra Boodman, Atlantic, June 7, 2015. We can’t make a hash of our humanity by overlooking the archetypes I listed. Image Credit.

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Q/A: LookDeep Health CEO Talks AI Adoption & Tackling Clinical Staff Skepticism

HIT Consultant

When it comes to very sick patients in the hospital, the data grows exponentially. If you are a large healthcare system, and you want to reduce hospital admissions, you may want to know which of your patients are most likely to visit an emergency room in the next 30 days so care teams can pay more attention to them.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

This post follows up Part 1 of a two-part series I’ve prepared in advance of the AHIP 2024 conference where I’ll be brainstorming these scenarios with a panel of folks who know their stuff in technology, health care and hospital systems, retail health, and pharmacy, among other key issues. Telehealth happens across the U.S.