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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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4 Phases of Emergency Management for Hospitals and Health Systems

Relias

Healthcare leaders should implement these steps in all hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities. Mitigation involves identifying potential risks specific to hospitals and communities. Natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes can cause severe damage to hospital infrastructure and disrupt 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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Mental Health Crisis in Miscarriage–an Unrepresented Patient Population

The Healthcare Blog

After that two-week hospital follow up, I heard from no one. We send them out of our emergency room doors with discharge paperwork and tend to the next patient waiting in triage. Luckily, I had established obstetrician (OB) care with the physician who previously delivered my second child.

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