Ardent Health hellocare partner deploys AI-assisted virtual nursing and patient safety across 2,000 rooms to enhance care and operational efficiency.

NOBLESVILLE, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Collette Health, a leading provider of continuous virtual patient observation solutions, today announced a new feature, Third Party Join, that allows members of the ...

Patients revisiting the hospital within 30 days of initial discharge increasingly receive care in emergency departments and observation stays, marking a shift that may reflect hospitals’ efforts to ...

The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), which represents hospitalists, has called for the elimination of observation status in acute care hospitals. The society would replace it with a new low-acuity ...

Emergency department observation units (EDOUs) have been shown to decrease length of stay and improve cost effectiveness. Yet, compared with noncancer patients, patients with cancer are placed in ...

— -- Sudden chest pains landed Diane Zachor in a Duluth, Minn., hospital overnight, but weeks later she had another shock — a $442 bill for the everyday drugs she also takes at home, including ...

If you find yourself in the emergency department and the doctor says he wants to keep you at the hospital for "observation," take heed. Depending on the hospital, observation can mean very different ...

Hospitals Increase Use of Observation Stays, Creating Coverage Issues for Medicare Patients Hospitals across the country are using observation stay classifications among Medicare patients with greater ...

The Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care provides a free, downloadable and adaptable card for patients to fill out when observing whether their healthcare providers are ...

Pediatric patients with extreme obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may have a higher risk of needing respiratory support after undergoing corrective adenotonsillectomy, warranting the need for ...

Trained patient sitters are taking some of the burden off of licensed nurses, says Lauren Prepchuk, head of Patient Observation for Crothall Healthcare. Crothall, a support service provider, trains ...