PITTSBURGH, April 6, 2021 — The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded TeleTracking a 6-month task order to continue collecting and reporting COVID-19 and health system capacity data from hospital and health systems across the United States. Since March 2020, TeleTracking has worked with the federal government to quickly provide public health officials with COVID-19 data consistently and transparently through HHS Protect. The collaboration has yielded greater visibility into the…
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Travel from bed to bed at Upstate’s three hospitals – University, Community and Golisano Children’s – and you will find a wide variety of patients: new mothers, young children and babies, people recovering from surgery or receiving specialized care, and those fighting COVID-19. Almost always, most beds at Upstate – all 752 – are in high demand.
Coordinating the flow of patients in and out of those beds is a complex, round-the-cloc…
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Paul Barrett, TeleTracking UK, explains how automating patient flow and bed management in real-time can transform hospital operations, free up time for nurses to care, reduce stress on caregivers and importantly improve patient outcomes.
Winter brings added strain to the NHS every year. But this year is more challenging than ever as the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic is upon us. An unprecedented number of Covid…
The 2021 Patient Flow Management Summit, being held virtually January 28-29, 2021, will bring together patient flow experts from across the country to share insights about creating system collaboration to optimize patient flow along the care continuum, enhance patient and provider satisfaction, and improve financial outcomes of health systems. TeleTracking Technologies, the leader in patient flow, capacity management and health system command center technology is the educational underwriter and…
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Every year, the winter season presents added strain to the NHS and this year is no exception. In fact, it is looking more challenging than ever given the rising number of Covid-19 patients being admitted to hospital in addition to the seasonal surge of non-Covid acute admissions. And it doesn’t end there – with a vast backlog of elective activity to catch up on, combined with NHS staff shortages and burnout, it’s not just t…
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The last few weeks have been filled with the news of at least three effective vaccines that could be available to combat Covid-19 by the end of 2020. Meaning that with Herculean mass vaccination programmes commencing in early 2021, we could have the world almost back to normal by the spring. But we still have the worst part of the winter to come and enormous healthcare backlogs and pent up demand waiting within our populati…
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When Covid-19 reached America early in 2020, the U.S. health care system mobilized like never before to anticipate and meet the demand for treatment and vaccines. Ten months later, health care providers today continue to work courageously and tirelessly to deliver patient care. Talented and dedicated medical researchers have spent countless hours driving progress in treating a novel disease, and, in record time, have developed FDA-approv…
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The safety of workers has been a high priority for hospitals and health systems across the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic, and New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health is no exception.
New York's largest healthcare provider, for example, implemented several strategies specifically targeting the safety of patient transport staff and environmental services workers, whose duties include cleaning patient rooms and changi…
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The surge of Covid-19 patients in southwestern Pennsylvania, driven by record-high caseloads, is eating up available intensive care beds, with less than 10% in Allegheny County remaining as of now and a comparable number in the surrounding counties. Independent estimates say Allegheny County could run out of ICU beds by Thanksgiving or early December, although the region’s health care leaders say that may not happen.
That’s settin…
Pittsburgh, PA, Nov 12, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northwell Health, the largest healthcare provider in New York state, signed an extended agreement with TeleTracking Technologies, Inc., the capacity management and health system command center technology pioneer, to centralize operations and bring real-time bed visibility to the system’s 19 facilities.
For nearly three decades, TeleTracking has delivered enterprise technology to hundreds of health systems across the U.S., Canada and UK, providin…