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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…
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The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust delivers ‘SafeHands’ Quality of Care Programme utilising TeleTracking Technology.
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) is the largest acute, community and primary care providers in the West Midlands, employing over 9,400 staff covering 350+ roles and providing care across three hospital sites (New Cross, Cannock Chase and West Park) as well as a variety of community and primary…
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Nursing won't be the same again because of the coronavirus. Here's how nurses responded to the never-seen-before crisis to care for patients and make the profession stronger.
Mary McGinn, BSN, RN, senior administrative director, patient logistics at Northwell Health's Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, has been through her fair share of catastrophes. In 2001, the veteran nurse was a month into a brand-new position m…
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Deb Sutton and Dan Wadsworth from TeleTracking UK, argue that training frontline workers to make changes from bottom-up is key to achieving the full benefits of digital solutions within the NHS
We have talked for years about how digital technology creates the opportunity to reshape healthcare. From improved communication linked to faster and more accurate diagnosis, treatment and discharge, to harnessing data to allow f…
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"We have proven we can systematically improve compliance and enable hospitals around the country to report on their COVID-19 data," said TeleTracking President Christopher Johnson.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has renewed the contract with TeleTracking to continue collecting COVID-19 patient data from hospitals, according to reporting from NPR.
On Friday, NPR reported that HHS awarded a second six-month, $…
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At the time of writing, as we enter the 8th month since the COVID-19 pandemic struck; 6th months since the first lockdown; and having seen acute health services under unprecedented and immeasurable pressure, we have been able to reflect on some of our successes and wrestle with how we will continue to help and support the NHS this winter. The biggest lesson we have learnt, and what our clients tell us about, has…
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Scott Krodel came on board as chief information officer at West Tennessee Healthcare on March 2 this year.
Two weeks later, it became clear that changes needed to be made – quickly.
"We went on a bit of a buying spree," Krodel told Healthcare IT News. Like other health systems across the country, West Tennessee had to rapidly pivot to telehealth where it could and try to make all its systems interoperable across it…
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The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust builds Analysis Reports that measure and predict PPE Numbers during Covid-19
Using its TeleTracking patient and staff tracking & RTLS technology, RWT is measuring patient / staff interaction with possible and confirmed Covid-19 patients
Data analysis requested by The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) allowed the Trust to measure the amount of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE…
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The president of the Pittsburgh-based technology company that is taking over collecting coronavirus data from the CDC says the firm is ready to solve the coronavirus crisis.
Hospital data related to the coronavirus pandemic will no longer go to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention.
Instead, it will be collected by TeleTracking Technologies.
TeleTracking’s leadership explains this as a publi…