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Houston Methodist nurses use software to boost completions of advance care plans

Healthcare It News

Julia Andrieni, senior vice president of population health and primary care at Houston Methodist, and president and CEO of Houston Methodist Coordinated Care ACO and HMPAQ. "With limited staffing, we also wanted to use a tool that would be both efficient and effective," she continued.

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Cerner CEO pledges to zero-out 'noise' from EHRs, population health and revenue cycle

Healthcare It News

" He pointed to Banner Health's work with Cerner to improve intake forms and other administrative burdens, "so their nurses can spend more time helping patients and less time documenting. Records should help nurses and doctors avoid errors and suggest what treatments might be best.

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Hippocratic AI Launches Nurse Advisory Council to Guide AI in Healthcare

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Hippocratic AI , a company developing a safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare, announced the launch of its Nurse Advisory Council. Hippocratic AI aims to address this by developing an LLM that supports nurses and allows them to focus on high-impact patient care.

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Cindy Friend, Caradigm and Population Health – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

I spoke recently with Cindy Friend , who is Vice President of Clinical Population Health Solutions & Transformation at Caradigm – a GE Healthcare company Twitter: @caradigm. Our conversation focused on the opportunities for improving population health through ACOs. Health Care Law and Consulting. David Harlow.

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Leveraging Personal Health Nurses to Connect the Dots Across the Care Continuum

HIT Consultant

A New Approach Many forward-thinking companies are taking a different approach to employee health by focusing on high-risk individuals who incur the most significant costs. These individuals are then assigned a personal health nurse (PHN) who acts as a partner in the employee’s health journey.

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Patients, Nurses and Doctors Blame Health Insurers for Increasing Costs and Barriers to Care

Health Populi

Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA). We must shift our True North mantra for improving health care in the U.S.

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Nurse Burnout Even Bigger Challenge Than Physician Burnout

HIT Consultant

The pandemic has pushed nurses to the brink. A recent survey by the American Nurses Association reports 51 percent of nurses feel overwhelmed, 76 percent report exhaustion and burnout, and nurse-to-patient workloads have tripled. ( While doctors see patients for minutes, nurses see them for days.

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