Justyna Strzeszynska, founder and CEO of menstrual health brand Joii, shares how her experience living with menstrual health issues inspired her to launch the Joii App, a new period and symptom tracker designed to…
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By Mark Melchionna March 07, 2023 – Published in the International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, recent research described the various benefits chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients experienced from remote…
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Spacelabs Healthcare today announced that it has acquired predictive analytics company PeraHealth. Founded in 2010, PeraHealth develops predictive enterprise software based on the Rothman Index, a score to quantify patient acuity. PeraHealth’s solutions alert…
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Departments Product ReviewCare to Share
Designed to enable safe file sharing in highly regulated healthcare environments, this platform offers easy integration.
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Healthcare organizations don’t have to face the nightmare of cyberthreats alone.
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COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. (President Biden, in his State of the Union…
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The Chartis Group this week, announced its new Chartis Center for Burnout Solutions, developed with recently-acquired DES Health Consulting.WHY IT MATTERSDES works with hospitals and health systems to address the root causes of burnout,…
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There’s widespread consensus that payments to Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) are a mess. These programs, which care for more than 30 million of the nearly 64 million Medicare enrollees, operate on the cutting edge…
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Veterans Affairs has announced the winners of the Mission Daybreak Grand Challenge, part of a 10-year strategy to end veteran suicide through a comprehensive, public health approach.WHY IT MATTERS
Preventing Veteran suicide is the VA’s top clinical priority, according to an announcement about the Mission Daybreak winners.
The challenge was launched last year…
Achieving value-based care goals remains a difficult challenge for many providers who also are trying hard to provide equitable care. Pathways Health Partners, an accountable care organization that works with more than 280 providers across multiple clinical specialties, works with organizations to address these issues.THE PROBLEM
“Ensuring access to patient records in real time, regardless of where patient care is delivered, was an ongoing hurdle for our organization,” said Ricardo Matos, CIO at Pathways. “It was a significant limitation with regard to our providers making timely, informed care decisions.
“And we knew from our experience working with partners over the years that trying…
The Singapore General Hospital has started training its nurses in IV cannulation using VR technology.A team of SGH nurses, together with Serious Games Asia and sensor solutions developer Microtube Technologies, developed an immersive gamified training module called IV NIMBLE (Nursing Innovation in Mobility-based Learning) to enhance nurses’ training.
The module comprises a virtual patient avatar with which nurses can practice talking; a 3D-printed hand which mimics the texture of human skin; and a pressure sensor glove that gauges the pressure of cannulation. It also captures and presents data via an analytics dashboard for review.
First tried out six months ago by about 120 SGH nurses,…
