Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The Continuous Skilled Nursing Quality Improvement Act (S.4122) 4122) was introduced back in April, and would redefine “private duty nursing services” as “continuous skilled nursing services.” Medicaid standards should reflect the unique work of nurses who provide complex one-on-one care to individuals at home.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 3, 2025

Ali Morin, MSN, RN, NI-BC, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, symplr AI is unlocking new possibilities for care delivery. As the frontline guardians of patient care, nurses play a critical role in ensuring AI solutions effectively address healthcares most pressing challenges.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 3, 2024

The nation’s largest nurses union is demanding that artificial intelligence tools used in healthcare be proven safe and equitable before deployment. | A union organization for nurses nationwide says the deployment of AI in healthcare will push nurses out of patient rooms and compromise patient safety.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

There are more than 775 specialty healthcare physicians and advanced practice providers and 2,800 registered nurses employed by Children's Mercy Kansas City. We are one of the first pediatric health systems to go live with what the telemedicine industry has chosen to call virtual nursing.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Hospitals and nursing unions clash on what’s driving sluggish application rates for open registered nurse positions at hospitals — a lack of qualified candidates or a lack of interest.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Department of Agriculture Rural Development, which it will use to build out its virtual inpatient nursing program. "When we find innovative ways to build a work environment where nurses are engaged and working to the top of their skill set, our patients benefit too," she added.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 15, 2024

Shiv Rao, CEO and co-founder of AI notetaking company Abridge, discusses the company’s product geared toward nurses and what’s next for the documentation market.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 26, 2025

THE LARGER TREND Fellow Taiwanese hospital, Taichung Veterans General Hospital (TCVGH), was recently reported to have tried out a collaborative smart nursing robot powered by a large language model. TCVGH worked with Foxconn to develop the robot named Nurabot to accompany nurses.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 30, 2024

"Nurses are all for tech that enhances our skills and the patient care experience, but what we are witnessing in our hospitals is the degradation and devaluation of our nursing practice through the use of these untested technologies," she said. We will update this story if there is a response.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 22, 2024

Abridge has spent the last six years building generative AI tools to help doctors with medical documentation and is now putting that technology in the hands of hospital nurses. | Abridge has spent the last six years building generative AI tools to help doctors with medical documentation and is now putting that technology in the hands of hospital nurses. (..)

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 11, 2024

"It’s critical that we as nurses are part of the conversation when it comes to using this technology to care for patients," according to Rudy Jackson, chief nurse executive at UW Health. The nurses have called it "fascinating."

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 23, 2024

The rule places more stringent staffing requirements on nursing homes than those initially proposed and offers exemptions for certain providers. Still, interest groups on all sides slammed the rule, calling it either too stringent or lax.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The company also said it planned to purchase four more nursing facilities in the Northeast next month for $57 million.

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Nursing 279

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In contrast, turnover rates for registered nurses decreased from 28% in 2023 to 27% in 2024, nearing the typical pre-pandemic rate of 20% to 25%. When comparing salaries by agency type, DCS in visiting nurse agencies earned the highest average salary of $137,931. Hospital-based agencies followed closely, with an average of $136,262.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 17, 2024

International workers’ high demand for employment-based immigrant visas has led the State Department to effectively cut off the flow of green cards for skilled workers, including nurses, for the re | "This latest visa freeze halts the flow of qualified international nurses when American hospitals need them most, and the only way to correct it (..)

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Health Care Dive

MAY 16, 2025

Researchers said staff turnover following Chapter 11 filings drove some of the adverse patient outcomes, noting less experienced staff tended to provide subpar care.

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Nursing 292

Health Care Dive

JULY 29, 2024

Lawmakers must uphold minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes to ensure quality care for the elderly, argues one legal expert.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2024

Despite challenges with compensation, staffing shortages, safety and more, most nurses want to remain in the field until retirement, a new report found. |

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 8, 2024

Agencies have stepped in to fill the gap, often resulting in unp | In-House Health developed an artificial intelligence-driven scheduling and management platform for modern nursing teams. The startup picked up $4 million in seed funding from NEA and TMV to build out its platform.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 23, 2024

Medicaid managed care plans and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will be subject to new wait time standards and quality ratings requirements, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid S | CMS defended implementing stronger rules over nursing home staffing as well as explained its thoughts behind Medicaid access and managed care rules.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Curtis Anderson, CEO and founder of Nursa Gaps in the nursing workforce remain elevated, with an 18.4% hospital turnover rate for registered nurses and an RN vacancy rate of 9.9%, a recent report shows. In fact, more than half of hospitals face nurse vacancy rates of 10% or higher. billion by 2033 , up from $8.7 billion in 2023.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The BNH IT and medical records teams retrofitted the tool to the needs of the doctors and nurses. "From 2016 to 2019, we had driven all nurses’ outpatient records and about 70% of doctors’ outpatient records to be entered in Quippe. They worked with InterSystems and IT consultant Lansing to prepare for this transition.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Learn how bedside telehealth can help healthcare organizations: Improve patient safety and experiences by preventing falls and shortening discharge times Mitigate labor shortages and prevent nurse turnover through the implementation of virtual nursing programs Reduce costs and streamline workflows by incorporating AI technology to capture patient data (..)

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 6, 2025

Michelle Whiffen, SVP, Client Services, HireClix There’s a mounting issue facing our nation’s aging population: as older Americans grow in numbers, the nurses caring for them are also set to retire in record numbers. At the same time, roughly 600,000 Baby Boomer nurses are expected to retire from the workforce.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 21, 2025

After rallying for several days in a row, UnitedHealth Group's shares are taking another downturn following media reports that it paid kickbacks to nursing homes to reduce patient transfers to hospitals.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 21, 2025

Kelsie Reed Blakeney, a registered nurse with nearly a decade of experience, has founded Ablake Healthcare in Columbia, South Carolina, to provide compassionate and comprehensive home care services for seniors and their families. As a critical care registered nurse, I am primarily responsible for meeting our patients needs, Blakeney stated.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 9, 2025

Nursing & Technicians Report , the largest of its kind with insights from over 1 million nurses and, for the first time, technicians, reveals a healthcare workforce under immense pressure. – The 2025 findings show that while the nursing shortage persists, an even more severe crisis is unfolding among technicians. .

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 8, 2025

states where nurses are most likely to experience burnout, with Colorado topping the list. The analysis reveals surprising insights into how factors like compensation, job satisfaction, patient load, and cost of living intersect to impact nurses across the country. – With nearly a third (31.5%) of U.S.

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Nursing 66

HIT Consultant

MAY 5, 2025

What You Should Know: – Nursing education programs are increasingly turning to advanced technologies like generative AI ( GenAI ) and virtual reality (VR) to better prepare students for the demands of modern patient care, according to a new survey conducted by Wolters Kluwer Health and the National League for Nursing (NLN).

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Meditech

MAY 8, 2025

As the backbone of patient care, nurses need their voices heard when it comes to decision-making. This year, the theme of ANAs annual Nurses Week is The Power of Nurses. Read on to hear from a number of organizations where nurses are giving voice to the needs of their patients and their care teams.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 23, 2024

The lawsuit seeks to represent thousands of other UPMC employees who may have been affected by the nonprofit’s alleged wage suppression and other anticompetitive practices.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 28, 2024

The plaintiffs slammed the rule as an overreach of authority that creates an “onerous and unachievable” mandate.

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Nursing 325

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 9, 2025

Electronic health record giant Epic developed a free curriculum for nurses and nursing assistants to help cut down on clicks when using EHR software.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

"Nurses, doctors, and hospital staff working in extremely harsh and dangerous settings have reported that their stress was greatly reduced through this system," Kim shared. It has six points: technological value, data, operational efficiency, medical service quality, user experience, and post-implementation.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 7, 2025

"Oftentimes, but not always, a home nursing service is contracted to send a physical therapist into the patient's home two to three times a week for a 30- or 45-minute session," he continued. Then, they are sent home. "First, the technology is highly reliable," he said. "Finally, we evaluated cost," he added.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Doctors and nurses are happy. It's not just the doctors, nurses, caregivers. We use our data warehouse every day to identify trends in disease state management or trends in clinical outcomes so we can create best practice models for our caregivers, both on the nursing side and on the physician side. It has succeeded.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Healthcare continues to be a hiring hotspot and LinkedIn aims to stay competitive as new staffing startups jump into the market. Healthcare continues to be a hiring hotspot and LinkedIn aims to stay competitive as new staffing startups jump into the market.

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