Medical Economics

AUGUST 12, 2025

An AI tool developed by Mount Sinai researchers predicts hospital admissions early in emergency department visits, potentially improving patient flow and outcomes. Tested across nearly 50,000 patient visits, the model matched or outperformed nurse triage assessments and could help reduce overcrowding, streamline care and improve outcomes.

Admissions

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

Hospital

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

Hospital

Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

9% of “near-virtual” office visits (at sites in the community, outside of the office and patient’s home – think: pharmacies, testing labs, schools, company health centers, etc.). .” Those estimates include, 20% of diverted emergency department visits. 24% of all office visits and outpatient encounters, plus.

Long Term Care

Relias

MARCH 18, 2025

Winter storms and blizzards can bring extreme cold, heavy snowfall, ice accumulation, and dangerous winds that disrupt essential services, transportation, and hospital operations. Ensuring a hospitals readiness for severe winter weather is critical to maintaining patient care and staff safety.

Hospital

The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 5, 2024

By KIM BELLARD Imagine my excitement when I saw the headline: “ Robot doctors at world’s first AI hospital can treat 3,000 a day.” The paper describes what they did: “we introduce a simulacrum of hospital called Agent Hospital that simulates the entire process of treating illness. But, still.

Hospital

Arkenea

MARCH 9, 2025

In recent years, hospital mobile app development has emerged as a critical tool in the healthcare industry, providing patients with convenient and accessible healthcare services. In this blog, we will explore the benefits, development process, hospital mobile app technology trends, challenges, and more.

Hospital

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

There’s growing demand for “triage, testing and treatment,” as Dr. Amy Compton-Philips of Providence St. hospitals’ four walls — which will be increasingly challenged in the coming days and weeks. Clearly, the U.S. Joseph Health (literally “Ground Zero” for Patient 1 of COVID-19 in the U.S.) No, it’s not from the U.S.

Billing

Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Least-used yet but most-likely to implement in the next 3 years is automation for workflow prioritization — thing triage for workflow. Philips concludes the report noting the need for further collaboration across the health care ecosystem — health systems and hospitals, technology companies, suppliers, and policy makers.

Triage

ACI Medical & Dental School

MARCH 11, 2024

Hospitals: Support healthcare professionals in various departments. Urgent Care Centers: Assist with triage and patient assessments. Specialty Practices: Assist with specialized procedures and tests. Medical Laboratories: Aid in specimen collection and basic tests. Performing basic laboratory tests.

Medical Assistant

Minority Nurse

AUGUST 12, 2024

They administer pre-hospital care onboard helicopters and airplanes and work with physicians and paramedics during in-flight destinations. Their tasks include resuscitation, triage, administering IV drips, and monitoring vital signs so that the patient is well enough to be safely deplaned.

Business Associate

Mobius MD

APRIL 3, 2024

One recent study of EHR use found that primary care doctors in a Massachusetts hospital spent, on average, 36 minutes using the EHR per visit. If possible, forward appropriate messages to a triage nurse who can determine if the patient can wait for a visit, be sent to urgent care, or should go to the emergency room.

Triage

Southern Careers Institute

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Hospitals Hospitals are bustling hubs of healthcare activity, and medical assistants are an essential part of the team. In hospital settings, medical assistants often work in various departments, including emergency rooms, outpatient clinics, and surgical units.

Medical Assistant

Setting Sights

DECEMBER 31, 2022

It was my first outing unaided since the Spring of 2020, far away from the bubble of the hospital ward corridor or rehabilitation room besides the physiotherapist’s gym, or the netting of using crutches or the wheelchair; both of which I had purposely tucked away in the garage. I loved every moment of my hospital placements.

Follow-Up

Relias

JULY 2, 2024

Virtual nursing is focused on the role, scope, and practice of nurses, who perform tasks such as triage, assessment, care coordination, medication management, chronic disease management, and patient education. They can prescribe medications, order tests, and refer patients to specialists.

Vital Signs

Scrubs

OCTOBER 5, 2024

The Vietnam War, one of the most controversial and violent conflicts of the 20th century, not only tested the resilience of nations but also reshaped the landscape of medical care in warfare. In mobile hospitals, the sound of helicopters overhead and gunfire in the distance was an everyday reality, creating an atmosphere of perpetual tension.

Triage

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

His remarks focused largely on an immigration and travel policy versus science, triaging, testing and treatment of the virus itself. Health Populi’s Hot Points: If we contract the virus and fall into very ill health, we depend on our community hospitals to care for us.

Tests

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The triage nurse obtains his vital signs: blood pressure 134/82 mm Hg, respirations 30 breaths per minute, heart rate 102 bpm, temperature 99.8 The patient appears anxious and restless, requiring redirection as the triage nurse processes him. Further diagnostic tests reveal that the mass is a malignant neoplasm.

Triage

Accepted Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

That’s kind of our how to be a doctor kind of classes and where they learn different skills and tests, and those lessons we can see they’re going to be done with our nursing students. You don’t want them doing their first test on a live person or doing it on each other. And it looks just like a hospital.

Medication

Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

It’s more efficient to look at a calendar and book a date than call a clinic/hospital to find a convenient time for an appointment. Chatbots and Chats Chatbots help to enhance patient portals by assisting in payments, offering status conditions of their claims, and helping with patient triage.

HIPAA

Arkenea

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For example, a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston tested ChatGPT by asking for a chart for a fictional patient suffering from a cough. Additionally, it may assist in follow-up care for patients who are recently discharged from hospitals. It also exceeded the online symptom checker’s triage accuracy.

Discharges

Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In emergency care settings, care coordination can involve immediate care, hospital admission, discharge planning, follow-up care, and post-acute care. It can help reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, readmissions, and ED visits and improve patient outcomes, satisfaction, and safety.

Care Plan

19 Labs

AUGUST 19, 2020

Zoom was the top downloaded app on the playstore in the first few months of the pandemic and almost all hospitals and health care systems use Zoom, Skype, or other tools for internal communication between physicians, nurses, and staff. triage” or Smart Intake vendors.

Vital Signs

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

But I write one of these reflections every other week and I need to satisfy my brother-in-law who texted the day after I got home from the hospital, “Well, it should give you plenty of future Sensible Medicine content…” First, because it’s kind of a good one, the story of the crash itself. One good story.

Follow-Up

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

AUGUST 11, 2025

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Vital Signs

MedQuest College

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Key Responsibilities of an RN: – Conducting patient assessments – Developing and managing care plans – Administering medications and treatments – Performing diagnostic tests – Educating patients and families about health conditions Real-Life Scenario for an RN: Consider a day in the emergency department of a hospital.

Vital Signs

Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Other promoters of health equity lobbied for a rationing scheme that prioritized the assignment of ventilators to Black patients, negating customary triage procedures. Or, maybe, evidence would have shown that white women needed to be tested more frequently. Overall, more deaths would have likely resulted.

Tests