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Sharon Simmons, MSN, RN, CPN, and Shannon Baum, MSM
Health systems are facing greater pressures than ever before, with factors ranging from mergers and acquisitions and changing reimbursement models to capacity challenges and staffing shortages. A transfer center, where with 1 simple call from a referring physician, a decision to accept a critically ill patient can be made, placing them at the most appropriate level of care, the fir…
Virtual roundtable provides health system leaders with opportunities to collaborate, learn and share.
Pittsburgh, April 27, 2020—More than 90 individuals representing 40 healthcare systems from across the country, who are on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, are collaborating virtually to share the lessons they are learning, the successes they are having and the best practices they are implementing to protect patients and caregivers. The conversations are hosted weekly by TeleTracking,…
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Porters are one of the unseen and unrecognised cogs that keep a hospital running. During the current Covid-19 crisis the efficiency with which porters can move patients is going to be critical in maintaining flow throughout the hospital – but how can that be achieved when demands are so high and porter numbers are likely to be reduced due to ill-health or self-isolation?
With so many NHS Trusts still reliant on manua…
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Healthcare CIOs should invest in and deploy new digital health tools cautiously and strategically, despite the FDA's decision to relax regulations during the coronavirus pandemic.
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When it comes to telehealth and managing patient flow, Bishop said it may be in a CIOs best interest to take a chance on new partners, she said.
That said, Chilmark Research analyst Alex Lennox-Miller said that healthcare CIOs who invest in new…
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Improving patient flow at hospitals and improving health and efficiency is exactly what TeleTracking Technologies Inc. does every day, so it's no surprise the Pittsburgh-based health technology company's data and analysis has been key during the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis.
This week it became even more invaluable, unveiling a dashboard system for its client hospitals that shows in real-time patient census, the number…
Specialized view to manage capacity surges and provide real-time information to administrators and caregivers.
TeleTracking Technologies, Inc., the world leader in patient flow, capacity management and health system command center technology, has released a new enterprise COVID-19 capacity and census dashboard to equip health systems with the critical information needed to prepare for and respond to the COVID-19 patient surge. The dashboard is in response to customer requests to be able to see…
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Australians should now be practising social distancing to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
By creating more space between yourself and others you decrease the risk of person-to-person spread.
It’s also essential that confirmed cases, those awaiting test results and people who have recently returned from overseas self-isolate for a minimum of 14 days.
The purpose of these public health mea…
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The large outbreak of COVID-19 has already started to overwhelm hospitals in Washington state and New York.
And experts say other hospitals need to get ready, now.
“Recall the worst day that you had in your hospital and assume it is going to be four times worse than that,” said Joanne Roberts, M.D., director of quality for Providence St. Joseph Health System, which has 51 hospitals. “That is the magnitude of what we are l…
By Paul J. Gough – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times
In one of her first appearances as Allegheny County Health Department director — in a video Sunday night with Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald — Dr. Debra Bogen painted a bleak picture of what could happen here in the too-near future: Tens of thousands of southwestern Pennsylvania residents infected with COVID-19, requiring intensive care and ventilators in a health care system that won’t be able to handle it.
And, Bogen said,…
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ALBANY – Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital’s high-tech patient logistics command center has shown excellent results in its first year of operation. Phoebe invested $2.5 million to stand up Phoebe Care Command, officially opening the center on Feb. 26, 2019.
“The need for a dramatic improvement in our patient logistics became apparent two years ago during an incredibly busy flu season," Joe Austin, chief executive o…