Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

While acknowledging there are distinct, and not trivial, difficulties in the current environment of staffing shortages, ongoing pandemic-related challenges, financial pressures, and a changing market, the importance remains. Michalene Elliott Kinsler is a senior director at Damo Consulting.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2023

While the report noted the continued challenges posed by the economy and staffing shortages, it also noted that Medicaid reimbursements are set to increase in a number of states, and consolidation among regional players may create economies of scale that will boost the sector. On the social determinants front, St. million.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached. That's not easy while staffing is still stretched, but it's important. What do you think will happen with telemedicine in 2022?

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In an emergency like the pandemic, staffing shortages remain a persistent problem, but expanding facility infrastructure and deploying the devices that healthcare providers need to provide modern medical care can also be extremely challenging.

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Compliancy Group

JULY 29, 2022

For the 12th consecutive year, healthcare breaches had the highest price tag. Being fully staffed: saving $550,000. Each year IBM works with Ponemon Institute to research breaches across several sectors of the economy. This is an increase of 9.4% from 2021 and an astronomical increase of 41.6% compared to 2020.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This helps nurses quickly respond to patient flow, staffing, and other capacity management issues on the fly without having to stop and dig for detailed information — because best of all, this type of solution is designed to run completely in the background of nurses’ tech devices.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Subheader: Patient care teams are overburdened by staffing shortages, shifting patient demands and complex treatment plans. Clinical decision support tools can help patient care teams improve diagnosis quality, leading to more cost-effective care. Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

But CDPs usually come with a hefty price tag, and most organizations haven’t been able to justify the added expense and staffing required to take this step in digital maturity. At least, up until now.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

The ability to effectively and immediately report out on numbers screened by entrances, as well as entrance breakdown (patient, visitor, vendor), allowed leadership to understand capacity and ensure staffing levels are appropriate. The same type of solution was deployed for employee screening utilizing the REDCap survey system.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 23, 2022

A letter to Congress earlier this year from American Hospital Association highlights the financial struggles many hospitals faced in 2022—largely as a result of continuing workforce challenges (including increased reliance on contract and travel staffing labor and the excessive costs associated therewith).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Because healthcare organizations still need technology to deal with the staffing crisis while still meeting the goals of reducing costs. Note: Humblest apologies to Dr. Smart for typing her name wrong in the video and for not tagging her properly @KatharineSmart ]. Technology + Physician Retention.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

Scott Hondros, MHA, SCPM, VP of Customer Excellence & Strategic Consulting at CenTrak The last few years have caused significant disruption and constraints of budgets, staffing, and resources throughout healthcare facilities, from the bedside to administrative teams.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Forty-five percent of respondents stated that the patient-to-nurse staffing ratios they’re experiencing are currently 5:1, which is more than double the optimal target of 2:1 and contributes to reduced quality of care and even patient safety risks.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

fraud scheme Nursing home must face vaccine-related wrongful firing claim, but not $2M retaliation accusations Transgender woman sues employer, Harvard Pilgrim for discrimination MICHIGAN 48-unit senior housing development could go up next to Vicksburg Halls in Marysville Can ads help a Michigan nursing home fix a staffing crisis?

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

Health’s new HQ in Ward 8 to boost economic growth Mayor Muriel Bowser Launches New DC Health Headquarters DELAWARE Delaware Alzheimer’s deaths spike over last two decades amid gap in care Delaware lawmakers join amicus brief in Supreme Court EMTALA cases Elkton medical building sells for $4.5

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

in federal funds for hospitals State of the State 2024: Arkansas health care faces challenges Study ranks Arkansas at the absolute bottom for dental health A mosaic of medical staffing solutions: Groups work to increase health care workforce in Northwest Arkansas CHI St.

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

Nevada Medicaid must cover abortion services, judge rules Clark County health rankings improve, but physicians per capita still well below U.S. Nevada Medicaid must cover abortion services, judge rules Clark County health rankings improve, but physicians per capita still well below U.S. Why nurses say it’s not happening.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

State officials are noncommittal Nursing home in CT accused of neglect, staffing shortages Lawsuit: Routine procedure would have saved Oxford mom who died after 2020 childbirth DC D.C.’s Megan Ranney to become next dean of Yale School of Public Health How is Nuvance complying with its affiliation agreement?

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Johns County Miami’s Largest Hospital To Get Bigger With Initial $90 Million Expansion Orlando Health hospital expands in fast-growing area Orlando Health scraps SoDo office tower Pasco’s population draws Johns Hopkins and other medical providers Primary care companies with 6 Orlando-area clinics merge South Lake Hospital celebrates new tower (..)

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