Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At a time when AI grows increasingly capable of matching human skills, research suggests it's largely still no match for health ...

Striking Kaiser Permanente mental health workers walk the picket line in front of the company's San Diego Medical Center on October 23, 2024 (Sam Ribakoff/CNS). SAN DIEGO (CN) — A health care workers ...

A nurse practitioner (NP)-led quality improvement project implementing a triage nurse intervention reduced the mean wait time and total encounter time at a walk-in clinic, but patient satisfaction ...

As federal funding cuts put strain on Santa Clara County resources, a nurse navigator program could help buffer some of the losses and expand access to health care. The county began a pilot program in ...

Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health has expanded the use of Mednition’s KATE AI triage support tool to five additional emergency departments after seeing early success at its flagship ...

Eloise Bailey woke up in her Southeast Washington home on June 30 with pain in her neck. Panic swept over her as she feared she might have broken a bone, so she dialed 911. “I didn’t want to eat. I ...

Of the many fundamental changes brought about by the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2009, one of the most significant is the newfound emphasis on patient/member satisfaction. Prior to the ...

Like many health systems, Allentown, Pennsylvania-based Lehigh Valley Health Network had been facing the problem of long wait times in its emergency departments. To confront the problem, Lehigh Valley ...