Quality and Safety
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10:31 am |
August 01, 2022
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10:31 am |
August 01, 2022
Joel Ray, CNO at UNC Rex Health describes the extent of the nursing shortage, the consequences of the being understaffed, and how technology can help.
The multiyear partnership will see the 63-hospital Tennessee health system deploying an array of analytics tools to advance patient care and boost population health.
The companies are shaping their future plans for cybersecurity risk management, patient safety data and other health IT use cases.
The EHR vendors are each adding new apps to their developer programs and marketplaces targeting referral management, personalized medicine and wound care, respectively.
The collaboration, which will see the health systems working with deidentified data for algorithm development and validation, will focus on patient outcomes and aim toward "personalized, predictive and proactive medicine."
Dr. Chris Gallagher, a cardiologist and CEO of SOC Telemed, sees "the power of telemedicine to change patients' lives and make a real difference to hospitals' bottom lines."
"While I fully appreciate substantial challenges exist," he said of the rocky Cerner Oracle rollout, which has been put on pause, "the fact is that more is working than is not."
"Neurocognitive health interventions must be multipronged and personal, which necessitates the use of digital tools to adequately equip health systems to meet this growing need," one expert says.