Bill Siwicki
Using FCC funding, the agency has transformed its telemedicine offering – and has since seen decreases in no-show rates for individual counseling and evaluation and management appointments.
In this sixth story in our burnout series, five physicians who have been overseeing telemedicine programs during this unprecedented surge discuss stress and ways to survive it.
The latter company’s portfolio includes interfaces to improve communication and integration among different IT systems, migration tools and more.
The hospital reminds patients of appointments by text and only occasionally voice. Patients who confirmed by text had a 75% show rate compared to 49% for patients who did not confirm.
Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania health system implemented eICU support for more than 60 rooms within a week.
Nurses at Florida’s Lakewood Ranch Medical Center have reduced the stress and worry of patients and their loved ones with a secure, easy-to-use messaging app called EASE.
With telehealth, the health system was able to reduce time to caregiver from 20 minutes to just five – and also significantly reduce length of stay.
The hospital uses Cerner’s cloud deployment model to give clinicians a role-based communications system and give nurses a mobile tool for advanced clinical workflows.
The huge health system reduced medication clinical decision support alerts by 6.2 million over the course of a year.
As a result of a rapid response plan, COPE Community Services continued to deliver healthcare at a pre-pandemic rate, and patients were seen with little disruption.