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ICU telemedicine programs bring essential critical care to community hospitals

Sound Physicians

With the absence of intensivists on the ground in these community hospitals, the question becomes how to treat these patients where and when they need care. Our tele-ICU program , which is part of our critical care specialty, has brought meaningful and much-needed intensive care to remote communities for the past five years.

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From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare

The Medical Futurist

Assisting surgeries, disinfecting rooms, dispensing medication, keeping company: believe it or not these are the tasks medical robots will soon undertake in hospitals, pharmacies, or your nearest doctor’s office. For this reason, we collected here the most useful robots in healthcare. But there is undoubtedly impressive progress.

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Integration with intention

Sound Physicians

Integrating your emergency and hospital medicine programs can make a huge difference in mitigating messy handoffs. Just ask Dr. Mihir Patel and Dr. Tony Briningstool, chief executive officers of their respective clinical programs with Sound Physicians— hospital medicine and emergency medicine. In a Becker’s webinar sponsored by Sound, Drs.

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Shorter stays, better outcomes

Sound Physicians

This post is a summary of that discussion. A patient’s length of stay (LOS) in the hospital impacts so many factors, from reimbursement rates to health outcomes, which is why hospitals and health systems have made it their top priority. So, what’s the best strategy to help reduce length of stay (LOS)?

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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

OUR ENTIRE FIELD of hospital medicine grew out of the need to innovate to address the growing complexities of inpatient medicine. AI Implementation: key considerations Integrating new technology in a hospital requires careful planning and attention to detail. Clinician burnout and its impact on healthcare delivery: A narrative review.

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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

Additionally, by buying smart toothbrushes from companies like Procter & Gamble and Philips Oral Healthcare you agree to their privacy policies that enable them to share your data with third parties. In comparison, the first VR-recorded surgery was performed at the Royal London Hospital in 2016.

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Beware the bait-and-switch when it comes to HM program contracts

Sound Physicians

Still, we know that sometimes the final decision comes down to a single factor: cost. While we’ve earned our reputation over the decades for our clinical excellence in hospital medicine , we’ve also earned — somewhat unfairly — a reputation for being more expensive than our competitors. We’re better at predicting revenue cycle projection.

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