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AI is Transforming Healthcare Behind the Scenes

Mobius MD

By predicting admissions and discharge patterns, AI helps prevent overcrowding and reduces wait times. A good example is Buoy Health’s AI chatbot , which engages patients by triaging symptoms and offering personalized recommendations before they see a doctor.

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Is getting people off weight loss medications the right move?

The Healthcare Blog

The diet is associated with many complications that often lead to hospital admissions for dehydration, electrolyte disturbances, and hypoglycemia. While a keto diet may help people lose weight in the short term, studies show that weight loss is rarely sustained over the long run and may be detrimental to overhaul health.

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GP collective action – What’s the reality for practices?

Practice Index

In our small survey, the next most-popular action was halting the rationing of referrals, investigations and admissions, and pausing the sign-up to new data-sharing agreements or local system data-sharing platforms. We’ve also implemented additional triage systems to ensure urgent cases are prioritised.

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Where Do Medical Assistants Work? Exploring Diverse Opportunities in Healthcare

Southern Careers Institute

They may perform tasks such as drawing blood, collecting specimens, and assisting with patient admissions and discharges. They triage patients, assist with diagnostic tests, and help with minor surgical procedures. Medical assistants in urgent care settings play a crucial role in ensuring that patients receive prompt care.

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2022: Showing Up

Setting Sights

Early shifts turned into late-night ones, and I was content even just volunteering to do the repetitive tasks of venepuncture and cannulation in an overflowing A&E triage. I threw myself into every opportunity that arose, like a starving child who hadn’t eaten in months – the clinical skills, examinations, history-taking.

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Tulane Medical School: How to Get In [Episode 569]

Accepted Blog

Its Director of Admissions, Dr. Mike Woodson, is our guest today, and he’ll tell you what it takes to get in. Show Notes Welcome to the 569th episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Accepted’s med school admissions quiz can give you a quick reality check. In 2019, he became the Director of Admissions.

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SWAT RNs: Supporting Bedside Leaders with Clinical Judgment

Minority Nurse

The triage nurse obtains his vital signs: blood pressure 134/82 mm Hg, respirations 30 breaths per minute, heart rate 102 bpm, temperature 99.8 The patient appears anxious and restless, requiring redirection as the triage nurse processes him. Salzo presents to the emergency department (ED) at 3:00 a.m. with difficulty breathing.

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