Case Study: Common Summer Concerns Addressed by Triage Nurses
Case study on a typical summer vacation concern for families and how having access to triage nurses can help decrease ER visits.
How Triage Nurses Save On ER Visits During The Summer
Top summer health issues and the valuable role telephone triage nurses provide to guide patients with home care advice or other care options to keep patients healthy and out of the ER.
The Opioid Crisis: Signs every Telephone Triage Nurse Needs to Know and What to Do
Telephone triage nurses are well positioned to help reduce the occurrence and consequences of prescription opioid. They assess patient symptoms, identify who may be at the risk, and send notes to doctors for follow up.
TriageLogic’s Medical Director, Dr. Ravi Raheja Talks About Measles Outbreak on College Campuses and the New Schmitt and Thompson Protocols Available
New protocols have been released by Dr. Bart Schmitt and Dr. David Thompson for telephone triage nurses specifically for patients that have been diagnosed or have suspected measles or have been exposed to measles. The two new protocols cover scenarios where patients have been diagnosed or have suspected measles or have been exposed to measles.
The guidelines provide telephone triage nurses with a consistent and methodological approach to callers who have questions.
TriageLogic CEO Recognized for Leadership and Health Technology
Founder and CEO TriageLogic and Continuwell, Dr. Charu Raheja, was recently named one of the Top 35 Women Igniting Success in Jacksonville by the Buzz Media Group. The award honors women executives, entrepreneurs, employees, and the companies they run. The award was presented by Snowden McFall, President of Fired Up and Dawn Gilam from Changing Homelessness.
The Top Excuses Men Often Make To Avoid Going To The Doctor And Why Telephone Triage Nurses Can Help
Patients today have more options than ever to receive care outside of their primary care – if they even have one. Having more options may seem like a good thing, however many times the consumer is confused about the best care to address their symptoms. In the process, they end up either over-utilizing services or underestimating serious medical symptoms, creating both a drain to the healthcare system as well as possible threat to their lives.
Customizing Care for Patient Populations with a Nurse Triage System
Patients today have more options than ever to receive care outside of their primary care – if they even have one. Having more options may seem like a good thing, however many times the consumer is confused about the best care to address their symptoms. In the process, they end up either over-utilizing services or underestimating serious medical symptoms, creating both a drain to the healthcare system as well as possible threat to their lives.
How Triage Nurses Help Patients and Doctors with Common Health Concerns – Swimmers Ear
As temperatures heat up, we often think that patient phone calls decrease due to less cold and flu outbreaks. Yet, triage nurses are surprisingly busy during summer months helping avoid unnecessary ER visits. Many of the issues from patients can be resolved with detailed home care advise and a visit to their doctor. Triage nurses use standardized protocols from Dr. Schmitt and Dr. Thompson to evaluate symptoms to ensure appropriate care advice. This article covers a common patient complaint a triage nurse can get during
Mental Health Month- How Can Triage Nurses Help Patients?
Triage Nurses In Mental Health May is Mental Health Month. It was started 70 years ago by Mental Health America to raise awareness about mental health conditions and the importance of good mental health for everyone. Telephone triage nurses have a more important role than ever before. Nearly one in five U.S. adults lives with a mental illness (44.7 million in 2016), which is why many adults with mental illnesses go untreated (60% according to a report from USA Today). In March, we posted an article
10 Signs to Outsource your Medical Call Center
Value-based care is encouraging healthcare providers to provide better care by incentivizing with pay for better outcomes and cost effectiveness verses a purely transactional model.Improving the patient experience is an extremely important component to get individuals to engage with the proper resources that will ultimately keep them healthy and decrease health care cost. Yet, many healthcare providers struggle to focus on the patient experience and customer service because of competing priorities. Value-based care; clinical, quality and safety initiatives; mergers and acquisitions; integrating employed physicians; software
Dr. Charu Raheja Featured on Ignite Success with Snowden McFall of the Buzz Media Group
Have you ever had a medical emergency in the middle of the night and needed to talk to a doctor or a nurse but you had no idea what to do or who to call? In today’s feature of Ignite Sucess, Snowden McFall interviews Dr. Charu Raheja who created TriageLogic to solve this problem. TriageLogic was started to help doctors and hospitals help patients when their offices were closed and to help save both unnecessary health expenses (keeping people out of the ER) as well
The Benefits of Telephone Triage with Chronic Care Patients
Telephone triage services give modern practices a unique and powerful way to be compensated for managing patients with chronic care conditions. Currently, three in four Americans over the age of 65 have two or more chronic health conditions, such as hypertension, cancer, stroke, arthritis, and diabetes. By 2030, about one in five Americans will be older than 65. As they age and life expectancy increases, the number of individuals with chronic health conditions, and demand for health professionals to care for them, will grow. Chronic