Innovations

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Finance
Pandemic spurs flood of venture capital funding to healthcare startups
Southwestern Vermont Medical Center lets patients wait in their car instead of a waiting room. They get a text when a clinician is ready to see them.
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Patients
'Virtual' waiting rooms help keep patients 6 feet apart
The Project Florence training is customized to match how much critical-care experience a nurse may have.
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Care Delivery
Online training helps redeployed nurses get up to speed on COVID-19
An app from ScribeAmerica lets physicians record patient visits. A remote scribe will later document the encounter.
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Operations
Virtual scribes help physicians document patient visits from afar
Remote monitoring allows clinicians check in on more patients at the same time
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Care Delivery
COVID-19 sparks new ways of using existing health IT
IU Health’s dashboard
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Operations
Nursing home dashboard helps Indiana system flag COVID-19 patients
A patient at home with an oximeter using the remote monitoring app
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Care Delivery
Home monitoring helps hospitals prepare for COVID-19 patient surges
An example of a UCSF chatbot conversation screening employees for COVID-19
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Operations
Automated chatbots screen patients, employees for COVID-19
Great River Health payment portal
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Patients
Online tools ease patient billing stress at Iowa system
Webinar: COVID-19
Transformation
Webinar: How COVID-19 brought a wave of innovation