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Advancing Rural Telehealth and Addressing Its Challenges

Engaging and retaining nursing staff can help drive organizational performance, including improving patient safety, satisfaction and outcomes.
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Telehealth Resources | Care Transformation Framework: Community Settings

Telehealth programs expand access to care so that people can conveniently receive medical advice and treatment no matter where they are located.
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Digital diabetes education improving rural communities in Arkansas

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is leveraging digital health to expand diabetes education and support for rural communities across the state, addressing significant access barriers such as long travel distances and limited local resources.
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Care Navigation | Care Transformation Framework: Linking Care to Community

Care navigators can help facilitate transitions as patients — particularly those with chronic or complex diseases — move from the acute care to home setting while remaining connected to needed outpatient services.
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How MUSC uses telehealth to reduce ED wait times

The ED team at the Medical University of South Carolina has embraced a solution that has reduced waiting times during certain hours and brought the number of patients who leave before being seen to almost zero.
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Could telehealth be the solution for the nursing shortage in hospitals? Jefferson Health thinks so

Abington Hospital, a member of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health, has piloted a program that pairs bedside nurses with a “virtual nurse” who assists with routine administrative tasks, including discharge and answering patients’ questions.
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St. James Parish Hospital | Louisiana: Digital Care Boards Improve Patient Safety, Expand Access to Care

To upgrade the hospital’s technology and improve patient safety, St. James Parish Hospital replaced its nurse call system with computerized whiteboards.
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Patient and Community Engagement | Care Transformation Framework: Linking Care to Community

Through formal and informal processes (e.g., community health needs assessments, patient and family advisory councils, community-based programs, partnerships) hospitals receive guidance on how they can better connect with individuals of all backgrounds.
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Technology-enabled Care Resources | Care Delivery Transformation Framework: Clinical Settings

Technological advances are applied to care delivery to improve patient care and ensure that patients receive the right care at the right time.
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Policies and Procedures Resources | Care Transformation Framework: Operational Infrastructure

Underlying all these operational components, health care organizations have policies and procedures in place to advance their mission as they decide where to devote their financial and staff resources.