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6 Ways ER and Urgent Care Nurses Can Bridge the Gap for Uninsured Patients

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For instance, websites that provide low-cost blood tests or telemedicine services allow patients to receive preliminary assessments and basic care without expensive hospital visits. By recommending these resources, nurses extend care beyond the hospital walls and ensure continuity of care, which is often a challenge for uninsured patients.

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AMA Announces “Playbook” to Successfully Adopt Digital Health

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The American Medical Association (AMA) has created a new resource to help physicians extend care beyond the exam room with technologies that are “changing the way patients interact with healthcare.” This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.

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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

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In addition to making cutting out waste in healthcare spending Job 1, OECD also notes that medical errors also represent waste in clinical settings, and that employing trained clinical workers to function at the top of their abilities could also be a useful strategy for cost-saving and extending care for access.

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Health Happens at Home: Lessons from the Parks Connected Health Summit

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Impressively, the organization stood up virtual care using a variety of conferencing and software tech’s including Cisco Jabber, Epic/MyChart, Extended Care, Microsoft Teams, Teladoc, Tyto Care, and Zoom. Tori had this image in her talk, which speaks to that humanitarian dimension to our pandemic journeys.

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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

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aren’t broken out in the report, but globally, one-fourth to one-third of health citizens appear interested in these new techs to extend care beyond the office and hospital. .” Detailed results for the U.S.

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

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Another facet of telehealth is in helping to scale intensive care units (ICUs). In health systems with high-demand for COVID care, Philips has seen intense demand to extend care via “eICUs” which enhance productivity in scarce resource situations.

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Patients’ Expectations for Health Beyond Care: Think Food, Exercise, Emotions, Sleep and Finance

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There are promising models of shared-decision making, community health workers visiting people at-home who complement and extend care teams, patient-generated data available through wearable technology, surveys on portals, and text messaging responses.