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Technology
Can ECMO Help Rural Hospitals Save More Lives?
Health systems in Minnesota and Nevada are getting more than $30 million in grants to support ECMO programs, which treat...
Technology
Can AI Be Used to Triage ED Patients?
A UCSF study has found that a ChatGPT-4 LLM can prioritize Emergency Department patients for treatment with 89% accuracy
CMO
Lawmakers to CMS: Promote Urgent Care Centers to Address ER Crowding
Urgent care centers can treat many conditions commonly treated in emergency rooms, including sprains, fractures, lacerations, and urinary infections.
Innovation
A New Option to the Crowded ED: Concierge Care
Health systems and hospitals are facing competition from disruptors offering personalized urgent and emergency care. But is that a bad...
Innovation
Amazon Pharmacy Launches Drone Delivery Service
The retailer is using drones to delivery prescription medications to customer doorsteps in Texas within an hour, bypassing traffic and...
Innovation
Dartmouth Health Uses Telemedicine, Virtual Learning to Help With Difficult Births
The New Hampshire health system is using a virtual health program to train rural providers to handle difficult births, while...
Innovation
West Virginia Targets Crowded ERs With New Pediatric Behavioral Health Program
Coordinated by Community Care of West Virginia and Aetna Better Health for West Virginia, the program will provide on-demand emergency...
Marketing
Funyuns and Flu Shots? Gas Station Company Ventures Into Urgent Care
MedWise has opened 12 clinics so far, all in the Tulsa area.
Technology
New Partnership Pushes Cardiac Care Management Out of the ER and Into the Home
A digital health collaboration aims to give health systems and health plans access to both virtual visits and on-demand house...
Telehealth
I/DD Care Provider Uses Telehealth to Save $100K in ER Costs Over 2 Years
Mainstay Life Services, which offers support for people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities in Pennsylvania, reduced ER and urgent care...
Telehealth
Northwell Health Launches Teleburn Network
The New York-based health system is using telemedicine to triage calls from three outlying hospitals so that ED doctors can...
Technology
UPMC: AI Beats Gold Standard for Diagnosing Heart Attacks
Researchers in Pittsburgh found that an AI tool outperformed the three most common practices for analyzing ECGs of patients being...