It is a well-documented fact that telehealth use exploded across the country in 2020, spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic. But several hurdles quickly emerged, including the question of how best to ...

UCLA Health is creating telehealth-specific triage protocols to help providers determine when it is appropriate to deliver care to patients via a virtual approach, according to a Dec. 30 NEJM Catalyst ...

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many states issued guidance to hospitals and acute care providers about how to ration and allocate ventilators during the surge. In states where there was no ...

A new paper suggests that unconscious biases in the health care system may have influenced how individuals with intellectual disabilities were categorized in emergency triage protocols. When COVID-19 ...

During the crush of the COVID-19 pandemic, overwhelmed doctors and nurses in some places have had to make agonizing decisions about which patients should receive scarce health care resources. However, ...

How one Mississippi hospital pioneered a cross-departmental triage workflow in their facility by leveraging a mobile-first telehealth communications platform BOZEMAN, Mont., May 24, 2021 – Pulsara, ...

If there is no way a practice can give patients timely appointments, then it makes sense to focus on offering safe telephone triage, to determine which patients need to be seen sooner, rather than ...

Hospitals around the country face a grim winter as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge. It’s shaping up to be a national triage situation. But many state and local governments, and hospital ...

Implementing severity-based field triage leads to faster treatment and less disability for stroke patients. The research presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 19 th ...

FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- North Carolina has updated its emergency stroke care protocol, a move applauded by the Get Ahead of Stroke® campaign. The protocol, which went into effect ...