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Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

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What is care coordination? Coordination of care is the process of organizing and integrating health care services for patients across care settings and providers.

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Hospitals Are Looking for Hard ROI in Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

Bedside nurses spend way too much time in documentation," Warr says. The new program, she says, assigns those tasks to the virtual nurse, who can sit in a room in another part of the hospital and handle EMR documentation for several patients.

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Team Up to Tackle Care Redesign

Health Leaders | Nursing

The third team member, a veteran nurse, is in the telehealth center, monitoring patients and assisting the bedside team (as well as doctors) with documentation and consults. The virtual nurse, meanwhile, sits in the background, offering support when needed, answering calls from patients, and keeping watch over several rooms.

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Artificial Intelligence Lightens Administrative Burden on Nurses

Daily Nurse

To lessen hospital nurses’ administrative burden and give them more time for meaningful patient care, Cedars-Sinai is testing an artificial intelligence (AI) mobile app called Aiva Nurse Assistant. The app allows nurses to use a mobile phone to document patient information in real-time through voice dictation.

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Healthcare Technology and Nursing: What You Should Know

Diversity Nursing

It also significantly reduces travel time and patient expenses, improves care coordination, and allows Nurses to reach a larger patient population. Wearable Medical Devices Wearable medical devices offer Nurses new tools to enhance patient care and monitoring.

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Virtua Health Launches AI-Enabled Virtual Nursing Program

Health Leaders | Nursing

Virtua executives say the platform aims to streamline patient care “from routine admit and discharge activities to documentation, fall prevention, and clinician safety.” [See also: Hospitals Are Looking for Hard ROI in Virtual Nursing.]

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Houston Methodist is Playing the Long Game With Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

Alongside addressing admission and discharge times, key elements of a patient’s length of stay, they’re looking at care coordination and management and documentation compliance. Analytics and reporting are part of the process, Klahn says, because “you’ve got to demonstrate ROI early on.”