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Can Virtual Nursing Help Hospitals Address Workforce Challenges?

Health Leaders | Nursing

Indeed, inpatient telemedicine programs were popular during the pandemic, as health systems sought to separate infected patient populations from doctors and nurses to curtail the spread of the virus. Telemedicine programs aren't exactly inexpensive, and CEOs and CFOs need to see the hard benefits to a new program before signing off.

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Hospitals Are Looking for Hard ROI in Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

Health systems across the country are launching telemedicine programs aimed at improving the nurse's workload, but both value and sustainability are hard to pin down. Virtual nursing is all the rage these days, with health systems across the country launching telemedicine-based programs aimed at helping their beleaguered nurses.

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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.”

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Team Up to Tackle Care Redesign

Health Leaders | Nursing

While some health systems use tablets or telemedicine carts, an increasing number are using TVs built specifically for the healthcare setting and providing both entertainment and clinical services, ranging from audio-visual conferencing to access to resources and education.

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Virtua Health Launches AI-Enabled Virtual Nursing Program

Health Leaders | Nursing

“By swiftly adopting optical cameras and ambient sensors, we’re poised to markedly enhance the patient and care team experience, ensuring a safer, more efficient, and empathically connected healthcare experience.”

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Smart Phone Apps + Health Coach = Better Surgical Outcomes, Says UPMC

Health Leaders | Nursing

Verifying that this hybrid digital-telemedicine platform is both easy for patients and clinicians to use and significantly improves patient outcomes and satisfaction with surgery is a welcome clinical advance," says senior author Aman Mahajan, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Pitt. "By

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MUSC Pivots on Virtual Nursing to Focus on the Specifics

Health Leaders | Nursing

Pillar: Innovation Image: Tags: care continuum care coordination digital health innovation integrated care leadership management nurses nursing strategy technology telemedicine value Secondary Pillars: HLM Communities Technology CNO Article Type: Analysis Published Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2024 Hide sidebars: Render small main image: