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"We have different liaisons assigned to
different specialties and different service lines that really understand
how the nursing process integrates with the physician and vice versa." Read More
Mississippi emerges as leader in telemedicine
Mississippi has a sickly reputation.
The Magnolia State ranks at or near the bottom in most health rankings:
worst infant mortality and most kids born with low birth weight;
second-to-highest rate of obesity and cancer deaths; second from the
last in diabetes outcomes.
But the state is a leader in one aspect of health care:
telemedicine. The state’s only academic hospital has remote connections
with 165 sites, providing specialized services to some of the state’s
most far-flung, medically deprived cities and towns. Mississippi’s
telemedicine program, ranked among the seven best in the country,
has inspired neighboring Arkansas to take bigger steps in some areas of
the field, and the impact of its success is making waves in Washington
as well.
The Magnolia State ranks at or near the bottom in most health rankings:
worst infant mortality and most kids born with low birth weight;
second-to-highest rate of obesity and cancer deaths; second from the
last in diabetes outcomes.
Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) launches Guroo, price transparency website
The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), a non-profit organization, has launched a price transparency website, called Guroo,
to help consumers find national, state, and local pricing information
for common health conditions and services. The data is collected from 40
million anonymized members of four health insurers: Aetna, Assurant
Health, Humana, and UnitedHealthcare. Read More
Study: Decision Support-Enabled Mobile Apps Help Nurse Diagnoses
A study published in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners finds
that nurses who used a mobile device preloaded with an application with
evidence-based decision support tools were far more likely to diagnose
patients for certain health conditions than nurses who used mobile apps
without such tools. Clinical Innovation & Technology et al. Read More
The app that lets deaf people 'hear' phone calls
The Pedius
app was created to help deaf people speak to friends, family and
businesses on the phone using voice recognition and real-time speech
translation.
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Pedius (pictured) uses voice
recognition and speech translation to make calls more natural. When a
call is made using the app the user types a message on the screen. This
is translated to speech in real time, so the recipient can 'hear' them.
The recipient's spoken response is then immediately translated into text
Dr. Prakasam’s Excellent Social Media Adventure
It was inspiring to read the interview that HCI Senior Editor Gabriel Perna conducted recently with Gnanagurudasan Prakasam, M.D., a pediatric endocrinologist based in Sacramento, California. What Dr. Prakasam has achieved goes beyond a surface “win” do a deeper type of accomplishment, and should be widely noted. And the results speak for themselves: the children whom Dr. Prakash cares for—all 1,500 of them, whto whom he is available 24/7—have a hospital readmissions rate of 5 percent, while the nationwide rate is between 9 and 15 percent. That is a huge breakthrough. Read More
How Miami Telemedicine Helped Haiti
The
earthquake disaster in Haiti gave rise to improved trauma care in the
western hemisphere’s poorest country. And a big reason for that change
can be found 700 miles away in Miami, inside a conference room at
Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center. Read More
Ochsner’s O Bar connects patients with more than 200 health apps
A room
in the Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness has a fleet of five
iPads locked to a bar, each one loaded with all the apps the health
system has vetted and approved. The O Bar is staffed by a technology
specialist that can help patients find out what’s available and help
teach them to download and use the available apps.
“The apps are out there and people are going to get them,” Ochsner’s Chief Clinical Transformation Officer Richard Milani told H&HN Magazine last year. “The smart thing for us to do is get our hands around what we think are pretty good apps and make them more helpful to patients.” Read More
“The apps are out there and people are going to get them,” Ochsner’s Chief Clinical Transformation Officer Richard Milani told H&HN Magazine last year. “The smart thing for us to do is get our hands around what we think are pretty good apps and make them more helpful to patients.” Read More
Google Revamps Results Pages for Health-Related Searches
Google is launching a new search
function that will display a box with relevant health information at the
top of the search results page for health-related queries. The data
displayed are pulled from trusted medical websites and have been vetted
by a team of doctors at Google and another team at the Mayo Clinic. MedCity News et al. Read More
Telemedicne: The Missing Link
There's a lot of hype and excitement about
telehealth, but for it to be the healthcare revolution it promises to
be, it needs a more fully executed connected care delivery model.
We as an industry are not yet ready for this sea change. But this is
coming and it is fundamentally unstoppable. In fact, it
will be a boon. It’s terrifically scalable. It’s terrifically efficient.
And when provider compensation is fundamentally tied to outcomes
(that’s coming too)... Read More
Tablet, app system boosts nurse-patient interaction, treatment experience
A Florida healthcare provider is tapping a mobile app and tablets to
foster better communication among caregivers and enhance its patients'
hospital experiences.Several hospitals within the Tampa-based BayCare Health System are deploying a mobile software-tablet solution to nurse managers who visit patients daily to capture patient feedback and manage patient-related tasks. Read More
Philly's Thomas Jefferson University Hospital turns to telemedicine to boost quality
The hospital has built a program to allow physicians to perform
consultations using video apps so that patients with less-critical needs
are treated in other settings besides the emergency room.
A telemedicine call center helped reduce the rate of readmissions among patients after hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction, according to a study in which a nurse could dispatch a mobile intensive care unit or make other recommendations while consulting with the physician on call.
Meanwhile, Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network is involved in a pilot project that allows patients to speak directly to ER physicians via an iPad connection.
The University of California-San Diego Health System also has a telemedicine pilot program in which on-call physicians who are outside of the hospital remotely link to a telemedicine station to see patients. Read More
A telemedicine call center helped reduce the rate of readmissions among patients after hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction, according to a study in which a nurse could dispatch a mobile intensive care unit or make other recommendations while consulting with the physician on call.
The University of California-San Diego Health System also has a telemedicine pilot program in which on-call physicians who are outside of the hospital remotely link to a telemedicine station to see patients. Read More
ONC Unveils Plan To Realize Basic Interoperability by 2017
January 30, 2015, the Office of the National
Coordinator for Health IT released a draft of its 10-year nationwide
interoperability roadmap, which calls for achieving basic electronic
health data interoperability by 2017. In addition, the draft outlines
four short-term actions and 10 guiding principles for meeting ONC's
goals. Healthcare IT News et al.Read More
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