HIT Consultant

MARCH 12, 2024

Mary Kane, MS, RN, NI-BC, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Piedmont What You Should Know: – Piedmont Healthcare, a leading health system announced the creation of a new executive position: Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO). Kane started as CNIO at Piedmont in December. Bio/Background Ms.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Nurses spend 10% of their time searching for equipment (according to a 2009 study ) and sadly little has changed in more than a decade. Nurses need to be empowered to do their jobs efficiently and hospitals need ways of building sustainability into their operational improvement efforts.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2022

(HPG), which has provided industry-leading consulting expertise for EHR technology since 2002, announced today that it acquired Health Data Specialists, LLC (HDS). We’re extremely excited to join this partnership, and we know our clients and teammates who are joining HPG are in great hands.”.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

For breast, lung and gastrointestinal cancer patients, nurse navigators historically spend the majority of their hours or 65% of their time , data mining to identify new patients for navigation. . Thanks to AI, clinical staff, particularly nurses and nurse navigators, are realizing a reduced workload burden.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In a letter sent in March to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the American Hospital Association called the workforce shortage hospitals were experiencing a “national emergency,” projecting the overall shortage of nurses to reach 1.1 And it’s not just nurses: Professionals from medical lab workers to paramedics are in short supply.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2022

Rising costs for nurses and hospital staff along with growing labor shortages have resulted in several of the largest hospital companies, such as HCA Healthcare, lowering earnings estimates, which drove prices downward across the sub-sector in Q2 2022. Health IT Equities: Healthcare Information Technology equities were down 21.2%

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The healthcare information technology (HCIT) space has been historically attractive for investors, and it is expected to remain so despite recent macroeconomic turbulence. Covid-19–era staffing shortfalls and burnout among physicians, nurses, and other clinicians, as well as IT and office personnel, continue to plague providers.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 30, 2023

Carol, a renowned clinical and operations expert, will be Banyan’s foremost ambassador of virtual nursing to all levels of clinical staff as well as C-suites in healthcare organizations and systems. Veteran healthcare technology executive Thomas E. Lucet names Brian Doheny as Chief Operating Officer (COO).

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In a hospital, you hit the "nurse call button" if you're not feeling well or something isn't right. You have to replicate that remotely and share the information among caregivers. They'll come at different points and in different shifts, so sharing that information becomes critical.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2022

Coupled with a worsening nursing shortage , this is a huge problem for rural American families. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reported the number of women experiencing severe issues while giving birth in U.S. How else can healthcare information technology play a role in buttressing rural maternity and neonatal care?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

President, Emirates Nursing Association. Al Mahri is also group chief nursing officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, or "SEHA," where she was the first senior nursing leader to identify the importance of the nursing informatics specialty. They are: Aysha Al Mahri. Abu Dhabi, UAE. Linda Reed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

"Rather, our patients, physicians and nurses have grown accustomed to digital health over years of incremental and foundational work, and all came rushing to make this the new normal." We were handling non-technology issues and helping change the processes."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Today, Healthcare IT News presents the latest in its feature story series speaking with healthcare C-suite officers and other health IT leaders about the healthcare information technology and other lessons learned during the past year, and how they are applying those lessons this year and beyond.

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