Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Health care access is a challenge in rural and urban areas, cities and suburbs, and across more demographic groups than you might realize, as we see wait times grow for appointments, primary care shortages, and delays in screening plaguing health systems around the world.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2023

Hospitals’ and health systems’ core competencies have been serving patients “within the walls” of their organizations and institutions. Boomers and Seniors indexed higher for each of these areas than younger patients in the Gen Z, Millennial, Bridge Millennial, and Gen X cohorts.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer gauged U.S. public health, as well.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

MARCH 11, 2024

Hospitals: Support healthcare professionals in various departments. Urgent Care Centers: Assist with triage and patient assessments. Administrative duties: Scheduling appointments. Outpatient Care Centers: Assist with patient intake and procedures. Nursing Homes/Assisted Living Facilities: Provide care to elderly residents.

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Mobius MD

APRIL 3, 2024

One recent study of EHR use found that primary care doctors in a Massachusetts hospital spent, on average, 36 minutes using the EHR per visit. If possible, forward appropriate messages to a triage nurse who can determine if the patient can wait for a visit, be sent to urgent care, or should go to the emergency room.

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The Healthcare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

After that two-week hospital follow up, I heard from no one. Call your physician to make a follow up appointment. I can’t make any appointments. We send them out of our emergency room doors with discharge paperwork and tend to the next patient waiting in triage. I’m sorry for your loss”. Which physician?

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Enhanced Patient Care Patients can get annoyed by long waiting hours and freeing up time for appointments. It increases patient engagement as they actively participate in scheduling appointments online, tracking their health, getting prescription refills, and eliminating transportation costs. outsourcing cuts down these expenses.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For example, a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston tested ChatGPT by asking for a chart for a fictional patient suffering from a cough. It can provide patients with information related to their health, answer questions, and assist in scheduling appointments. ChatGPT was better at diagnosis than physicians.

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Accepted Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

We have a simulation operating room, a delivery room, emergency medicine room, and different patient triage areas where they can learn. And it looks just like a hospital. It looks just like a hospital. You walk into the tile floors, to the white walls and all that, the bright, the fluorescent lights and all that stuff.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Using telehealth appointments for chronic conditions, follow-up visits, and other non-urgent care can reduce unnecessary hospital visits, which in turn ensures triage and earlier treatment of the seriously ill. The public echoes this sentiment.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

This is an innovative, free, online triage tool and app that guides users faced with a poison emergency through a series of simple questions to determine the next steps they need to take. After that fateful doctor’s appointment, I immediately went on sick leave and then short-term disability. Working in poison control is my passion.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

But I write one of these reflections every other week and I need to satisfy my brother-in-law who texted the day after I got home from the hospital, “Well, it should give you plenty of future Sensible Medicine content…” First, because it’s kind of a good one, the story of the crash itself. One good story.

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