In many countries, the social welfare sector is struggling with enormous cost-cutting pressures, labour shortage and the growing demand for its services. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, ...

Study shows telehealth doubles the tasks nurses complete to assist patients with chronic diseases. More hospitals and health systems are pushing forward with telehealth initiatives, but a new study ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) —An innovative tool is working to improve staffing and patient care at a local hospital. Nurses at Sentara realized that on some days, their workloads were uneven. For ...

AI should be implemented thoughtfully and built in a culture of trust, says this nurse leader. In an era where efficiency and output are the priorities in healthcare, it can be easy to overlook the ...

Hospitals struggling to attract and retain enough registered nurses at the bedside are implementing alternative strategies to ensure patients get needed nursing care. This includes virtual nursing ...

The use of telehealth became a global necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic, and although many medical settings have since resumed in-person services, telehealth is now firmly situated as a mainstay ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced new health-care data and artificial intelligence tools, including a collection of medical imaging models, a health-care agent service and an automated documentation ...

Nurses are increasingly overloaded. This is especially true in nursing homes and in home care, as shown by the results of the latest nursing survey in which more than 18,000 nurses answered questions ...

Stesha Selsky and Meg Furukawa will offer more detail during their HIMSS23 session "Building and Validating a Workload Acuity Tool." It is scheduled for Wednesday, April 19, at 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Excess workload has been identified as a root cause of the current health-care crisis in report, after report, after report. Excess workload for front-line staff like ...