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Girl Has Leg Amputated After Hospital Ignored Her Cries for 10 Hours

Scrubs

Stephanie Sedillo is suing Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico after her daughter’s leg had to be amputated because the staff allegedly ignored her cries for 10 hours. Her daughter was triaged and received an x-ray on her left leg but then had to wait ten hours before being seen again. It’s a little easy, a little hard.

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Mint.com Founder Launches Vital To Triage America’s Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

Vital, the AI-powered software increasing productivity and improving patient health in hospital emergency rooms, today announces a $5.2 Vital uses artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to triage patients before they see a doctor, making it easier and faster for providers to coordinate […].

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Negotiating the physician identity in an era of complexity and connectivity (Part 1)

Sensible Medicine

The analogy of a physical hospital expanding from its original isolated ward to become an interconnected quaternary care center may help. Below is a screenshot of my cell phone which shows how many different ways a patient or triage nurse could contact me (I don’t text my patients or clinic nurses, but some primary care docs do).

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

Health Populi

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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3 Old-School Nursing Methods That Need to Go Away

Scrubs

Today, there are more reliable methods that are actually recommended for measuring the severity of asthma: Pulse oximetry , which should be measured during triage. As you go about your daily duties at work, there are opportunities for you to question whether nursing practices at your hospital are valid and current. Peak flow meters.

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How Physicians Can Use AI to Streamline Their Work

Mobius MD

Specifically, we’ll discuss how AI can: Automate Clinical Documentation Support Clinical Decision-Making Triage Patient Communication Diagnose Medical Images Automate Routine Tasks Each topic includes a Software Spotlight, highlighting practical tools that illustrate AI’s impact in real-world settings.

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