Enlarged Prostate Laser Surgery: From Inpatient to Outpatient
With any BPH procedure, tissue is removed to open the urethra. Patients typically stay at least one night in the hospital. There has been a successful ongoing effort to reduce inpatient time for BPH surgery by limiting complications, especially postoperative bleeding.
Study: About a Quarter of Hospitals Have Telestroke Capacity
As of 2019, just over 27% of hospitals had telestroke capacity, according to the study. Over a third of hospitals with telestroke capacity by 2017 were larger health systems, while nearly 15% were smaller organizations.
Survey: Patients Equally Satisfied with Virtual Encounters Compared to In-Person Visits
The survey was conducted over a six-week period concluding at the end of April and includes more than 30,000 responses. During that time respondents reported nearly 70% of their encounters involved a full or mixed virtual medicine component. Mixed visits could have included a combination of video and in-person visits, telephone, email, or text.
How Intelligent Document Automation Can Improve Clinical Communications
The easiest way to transfer records between incompatible systems is to generate those records in document format. To send those documents, most providers still resort to using an antiquated piece of technology that is found in almost all medical offices: the fax machine.
Contact-Free Continuous Monitoring
At Arnot Ogden Medical Center, a not-for-profit, 256-bed tertiary medical facility in Elmira, New York, we’ve long used traditional telemetry devices and methods in our four cardiology units to monitor patients’ vital signs. But we also wanted to give this added layer of protection to other hospital patients without incurring the costs of installing telemetry systems.
Rapidly Accelerating Use of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Demands Ethical Analysis
The proliferation of AI and robotics use is inescapable, so how can the associated ethical challenges be identified and addressed? It was only last year that the FDA released model 1.0 of its software precertification to provide an initial tool to test AI and machine learning technology.
Healthcare Extends Into the Online Community
As consumers take more control over where they seek healthcare, they’re using their social networks to spread the news about their preferred choices. The result is that physicians are now being tasked with protecting their reputations in the digital world.
When in Crisis Mode, Let Everyone Follow the Data
During normal times, managers often make decisions based on their knowledge and experience; analysis of data to varying degrees informs that decision-making process. Circumstances change at an easily manageable pace, errors in judgment can be corrected, and the impact of those poor choices is often insignificant.
Safer Surgery Through Higher Precision
OrthoGrid, a Salt Lake City–based medical technology provider known for orthopedic platforms, has developed what is being called the only patented intraoperative alignment and distortion correction solution on the market.
How Patient Tracking Data Can Drive Patient Safety
While hospitals have long been looking for the right blend of strategies for improving throughput, today health systems have insight into entirely new levels of data, often available in real time, that can help identify flow bottlenecks as they happen. More EDs are now turning to data-rich patient tracking systems to improve patient flow, especially during peak times with high patient volume.