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How Patient Movement Benefits from Standardized Acuity Scoring

by Dr. Martin Sellberg, Co-Founder of Motient 05/24/2022 Leave a Comment

How Patient Movement Benefits from Standardized Acuity Scoring

Nurses and providers typically assess patient acuity and volume at the beginning of their shift, whether formally or informally. Managers use patient acuity to balance nursing assignments, and nursing staff uses it to determine which patient care action should be prioritized next. Taking a standardized approach to acuity assessments not only provides more objectivity, but also gives hospitals the data they need to make a variety of tactical and strategic decisions, from daily unit staffing to
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Roundtrip Nabs $4M to Scale Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Marketplace

by Fred Pennic 07/21/2020 Leave a Comment

Roundtrip digital transportation marketplace

What You Should Know: - Digital transportation marketplace startup Roundtrip raises $4M led by Motley Fool ventures, bringing its total funding to $10.5M. - The company plans to use the funding to geographically scale and specialize its sales, implementation, and account management model, expand its health plan portfolio and technology integration capabilities. Roundtrip, a Philadelphia, PA-based digital transportation marketplace for better health outcomes, announced the completion
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Ride Health Lands $6.2M to Deliver Real-Time Ride Coordination Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 01/07/2020 Leave a Comment

Ride Health Lands $6.6M to Deliver Real-Time Ride Coordination Platform

- Ride Health, an NYC-based real-time ride coordination platform that improves access to care and patient’s ride experience has raised $6.2M in seed funding.   - Penn Medicine is already using Ride Health’s ride coordination platform to reduce costs, no-shows, and length-of-stay.   - Ride Health now supports transportation benefit management for health plans in 10 states, optimizing utilization across all transportation modes including mileage reimbursement, public transit, ride-hailing,
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GE Healthcare, Medhold Launches Intra-Hospital Patient Transport Monitor

by Fred Pennic 05/30/2019 Leave a Comment

GE Healthcare, Medhold Launches plug-and-play monitoring solution for conducting intra-hospital patient transport

GE Healthcare and Medhold has announced the launch of CARESCAPE ONE, an advanced lightweight plug-and-play monitoring solution for conducting intra-hospital patient transport in South Africa. The solution allows nurses to visually monitor critical patient conditions with precision during active patient transport between care areas.Complexities of Intra-Hospital Patient Transport Today’s intra-hospital patient transport has become an important part of healthcare delivery. It is a complex and
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AMR, Lyft Partner to Provide Integrated Patient Transport for Health Systems Across 42 States

by HITC Staff 03/31/2017 Leave a Comment

AMR, Lyft Partner to Provide Integrated Patient Transport

American Medical Response (AMR), a provider of medical transportation and on-demand transportation service Lyft announced a partnership to provide integrated patient transport services for patients who need a ride from the hospital to their home or to outpatient procedures.The partnership will include non-emergency medical transportation services and technology integration that will span across all 42 states that AMR operates within. Now, hospitals and caregivers can arrange any patient
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