WakeMed Health & Hospitals, a health system based in Raleigh, North Carolina, faced a significant challenge regarding its electronic health record. Dollars and quality points matter deeply to health systems, and the EHR is…
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Josh Clark, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s vice president of quality and safety operating systems, oversees design and implementation of the IHI Care Operating System, a system of technology-enabled workflows that connects clinical care,…
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Healthcare workers in the United States continue to experience high levels of job-related stress and burnout, particularly among nurses in the frontlines of healthcare delivery. Burnout is an occupational phenomenon that results from chronic…
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Over the past two decades, nearly 200 rural hospitals have closed in the U.S., with an additional 700 at risk of closing soon. And with big cuts to Medicaid on the agenda in Congress,…
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Telemedicine is a tool that can work wonders for all kinds of general and specialty care. And care for children with special needs and their families is no different.Dr. Patricia Hayes is chief medical…
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GOP Lawmakers Challenge Party Leadership Over Healthcare Funding
Sixteen House Republicans have drawn a line in the sand, warning their party’s leadership that they “cannot support” the Senate’s reconciliation bill due to what they consider…
Digital Health Companies Champion Wearable Technology
Digital health companies presented compelling testimony to the House Ways and Means health subcommittee Wednesday morning, advocating for the transformative benefits of wearables and remote monitoring devices in tracking…
Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health systems were grappling with a deep and widespread sense of exhaustion across the healthcare workforce. Morale had plummeted, and provider organizations were watching talented, compassionate…
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Careful consideration today is given to the ways health IT can, should and might be used in the future to prevent expensive retrofits and ensure seamless system integration.But buy-in from nurses and healthcare professionals,…
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Ambient documentation vendor Abridge raises $300 million in a Series E round, boosting its valuation to $5.3 billion.
The company raised a $250 million Series D round just five months ago at a…
