Minority Nurse

MAY 11, 2023

Angela Purcell, a nurse making a difference, has helped save patients’ sight and taught others how as part of the Flying Eye Hospital. Purcell, now an RN with an Ophthalmic Nurse diploma and the Associate Director of Nursing for Orbis International’s Flying Eye Hospital , began her career as a legal secretary.

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Northwest Suburban College

MARCH 15, 2024

Interprofessional collaboration has become increasingly important in today’s complex healthcare landscape, as teams of healthcare professionals working together can achieve greater efficiency, improved patient outcomes, and enhanced satisfaction for both staff and patients.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Vital — AI-powered software in hospital emergency rooms — announces its inaugural development partnership with Emory Healthcare. The article Vital and Emory Healthcare Collaborate To Build Modern Emergency Room EHR appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Forbes Healthcare

MAY 14, 2024

Siemens Healthineers and the fast-growing startup Medically Home are collaborating to expand more advanced medical care in patients homes.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Hospitals designated through the Magnet Recognition Program® live up to their name—they attract and keep nurses thanks to the nursing-focused strategies at the organization ’ s operations ’ foundation. And it ’ s not a one-and-done approach—Magnet hospitals only hold the designation for four years, after which they need to reapply.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Home, Sweet Hospital-At-Home? . In our bullish and, on its face, compassionate and cost-rational embrace of the migration of acute care from hospital beds to peoples’ living and bedrooms, there are several guardrails to consider beyond sheer payment and reimbursement calculations. Care About the Caregivers, the House, the Fridge.

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EvidenceCare

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In case you aren’t familiar, the Two-Midnight Rule mandates that a patient’s hospital stay must span at least two midnights to qualify for inpatient status, directly influencing reimbursement rates and compliance requirements. This highlights the necessity for hospitals to implement clear and robust compliance documentation practices.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Hospital administrators across the nation advocate the merits of Magnet designation. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), an affiliate of the American Nurses Association, awards Magnet status to hospitals that satisfy designated criteria that measure the strength and quality of the institution’s nursing care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There are 1,844 rural hospitals operating in the U.S. That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. That hockey-stick growth of closures is shown in the first chart, where 34 rural hospitals shut down in the past 2 years.

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Performance Health

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This case study showcases how West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital revolutionized its clinical peer review and incident reporting processes by implementing Performance Health Partners’ software, leading to dramatic improvements in efficiency, patient safety, and administrative agility.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“The odds are against hospitals collecting patient balances greater than $7,500,” the report analyzing Hospital collection rates for self-pay patient accounts from Crowe concludes. Crowe benchmarked data from 1,600 hospitals and over 100,00 physicians in the U.S.

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EvidenceCare

JANUARY 12, 2024

Social Admission vs. Medical Necessity In healthcare, the term “social admission” signifies instances where patients find themselves admitted to a hospital primarily for non-medical reasons. Hospitals should develop a plan for care beyond their walls, but few invest in skilled nursing facilities.

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Scrubs

APRIL 11, 2023

But it’s important to keep young patients calm throughout the procedure, so Abby Hess, a nurse practitioner at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, came up with a video game to help children relax. Going under for surgery can be a scary experience for many kids.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 17, 2019

Jefferson Health, a 14-hospital system in Philadelphia and New Jersey with more than $5 billion in revenue, named Chicago-based Prepared Health its digital technology partner for post-acute and transitional care. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

hospitals have been working to improve the rate of nosocomial infections in America, there is a long way to go. hospitals still contracts an HAI, the Group’s recent report on HAIs attested. Now, digitally track that information through the patient’s journey during a hospital stay. One in 25 patients in U.S.

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Scrubs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Paul collaborates with organizations like RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit specializing in medical debt relief. Medical debt is often seen as unavoidable or inescapable, with the costs of treatments, emergency care, and hospital stays piling up unexpectedly. In this groundbreaking model, St.

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EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

This comprehensive guide provides hospital and revenue cycle leadership with vital insights on preparing for CERT audits and establishing processes for compliant documentation. Hospitals need to be aware of these state-specific rules as well. Think of your documentation as the ironclad defense for your hospital admissions.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

By actively listening to feedback, encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration, and prioritizing patient satisfaction initiatives, she establishes and maintains a patient-first mindset within Sheppard Pratt’s nursing staff. Garnett truly has a heart for the patient, frequently interacting with them directly on units.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 11, 2019

NVIDIA and the American College of Radiology announced a collaboration to enable thousands of radiologists nationwide to create and use AI for diagnostic radiology in their own facilities, using their own data, to meet their own clinical needs. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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EvidenceCare

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Hancock explains Sentara’s forward-thinking model for innovation and cross-functional collaboration, offering actionable strategies that can help you improve innovation at your own facility. In this blog, we will be highlighting this model and what Sentara Health is doing to make it successful.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Calm provided similar support previously in 2020 when the meditation app collaborated with the media network CNN on election anxiety management — covered here in Health Populi. Here’s their share to help us cope with political stress today. Political stress and anxiety is a mainstream mental health challenge in the U.S.

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Scrubs

MARCH 31, 2023

Terri Tanner, an emergency department nurse at Northwest Hospital in Maryland, remembers trying to talk to a patient who was suffering from an unknown condition during the eleventh hour of their stay. That’s when Rachel Venable, the hospital operations coordinator, stepped in to lend her assistance.

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The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 5, 2024

By KIM BELLARD Imagine my excitement when I saw the headline: “ Robot doctors at world’s first AI hospital can treat 3,000 a day.” The paper describes what they did: “we introduce a simulacrum of hospital called Agent Hospital that simulates the entire process of treating illness. But, still.

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The Healthcare Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

3) high levels of collegiality and mutual trust At its base, quality patient care requires collaboration, and that collaboration cannot take place without high levels of trust-both in clinical judgment and behavior. Those standards evolve and improve as clinical medicine advances.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2024

I’ve been tracking Samsung’s evolving approach to the Internet of Things at home, for many years collaborating across the consumers’ expanding connected ecosystem for appliances, consumer goods, and autos.

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Medical Economics

APRIL 10, 2024

How physicians and hospitals can rethink collaboration to build sustainable health care systems.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Starting November 5, an artificial intelligence (AI) digital scribe application is going to be trialed by a small group of emergency physicians at the University of Alberta Hospital, the Royal Alexandra Hospital, and the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre (RDRHC). Created initially by RDRHC emergency physician Dr.

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Ciox

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, September 26, 2023 – Datavant has now reached a milestone of more than 70,000 US hospitals and clinics in its digital network and enables the exchange of 60 million patient records per year.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2024

.” This post summarizes some key findings on the consumer demand side for staying home, empowered and enabled by various technologies that can support independent aging, living, and medical care as more acute services shift from hospital-to-home.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What if… you were given the opportunity to build a health system from scratch in this new era of platforms, cloud computing, AI and machine learning, curious-digital-empowered consumers, and collaborators in retail and community settings operating close to peoples’ homes and workplaces?

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Foster a positive and collaborative work environment that promotes teamwork, respect, and professional development. Collaborate with unit managers to monitor and maintain appropriate staffing levels based on acuity and workload demands. I volunteered at a local hospital because it was close to my school.

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The Healthcare Blog

AUGUST 15, 2024

There were 8 “key strategies,” each of which contained three bullet points, and each of which, I was advised, “involves detailed planning, resource allocation, and collaboration among various stakeholders, including government, healthcare providers, insurers, and the public.” Are hospital mergers good or bad for patients?”

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Achieving these calls-to-action will require collaboration and collective action in health care organizations’ communities.

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The Healthcare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Historically, each MyChart account was ‘tethered’ between an individual and a hospital system and represented a simple portal for the individual to view her records. If an individual had been seen at multiple different hospital systems, then she would have multiple separate MyChart “instances”, or entirely separate accounts and logins.

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Serenity Nurse Aide Academy

OCTOBER 22, 2024

From hospitals to long-term care facilities, trained professionals are better able to anticipate challenges, collaborate with colleagues, and follow stringent safety protocols to prevent accidents and medical errors.

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We Care Online

OCTOBER 18, 2024

With VR, students can immerse themselves in realistic clinical scenarios, such as performing surgeries or diagnosing patients in a simulated hospital setting. Moreover, simulation-based learning promotes interdisciplinary collaboration.

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