Triage Nurses Can Now Use Secure Chat With Doctors to Improve Patient Care and Efficiency

Traditional HIPAA-secure chat features require doctors to download apps to their phones and then register them before sending and receiving messages. Most of these secure messaging apps also cost anywhere…

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Tips for Medical Answering Services to Improve Agent Satisfaction and Message Intake

Many practices hire nonclinical staff to answer phones and pass along medical messages to nurses and physicians. In addition, companies known as medical answering services may be contracted by doctors’…

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Cold vs. Flu, or RSV? How Telehealth Nurses Can Use Triage Protocols to Address All Three

Since COVID-19 restrictions have been eased, this fall is already experiencing a surprising surge of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in conjunction with flu and the common cold. Telehealth nurses have…

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Solutions Your Practice Can Use If It’s Experiencing Challenges With RPM

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has already demonstrated its ability to improve patient care and generate revenue. Its home-based, wearable devices have been particularly useful for the long-term treatment of chronically…

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5 Ways to Ensure Optimal Nurse Triage Coverage for Any Patient Call Volume

Does your team have difficulty maintaining the appropriate nurse triage coverage due to unpredictable patient call volume? This is especially true when calls come in waves, or right after doctors’…

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