Injuries and sicknesses vary when people show up to an ER for medical care, so doctors must decide, depending on the severity, which cases take priority in determining how soon patients can be treated ...

When evaluating patients presenting to an emergency department (ED), a quick, visual assessment ("eyeball triage") is better than a formal triage when it comes to predicting mortality, a study has ...

UCLA Health is creating telehealth-specific triage protocols to help providers determine when it is appropriate to deliver care to patients via a virtual approach, according to a Dec. 30 NEJM Catalyst ...

I recently concluded a podcast series with Case IQ. Over this series, I visited with Sharlyn Lauby, Jakub Ficner, Kenneth McCarthy, and Meric Bloch on the different facets of a great speak-up regime ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Suzanne is a content marketer, writer, and fact-checker. She holds a Bachelor of Science in ...

An Ohio hospital's provider-in-triage model is generating clinical, financial, and strategic benefits, including lowering its rate of ER patients who leave without being seen. Grandview Medical Center ...

As the latest virus surge swamps hospitals, researchers consider the role machine learning could play in making decisions about care. The latest surge of COVID infections has hospitals crowded, ...

Every business that I talked to this week seems to be struggling with too much work or too few employees and resources. It looks like the northern Nevada business environment is really starting to ...

Anyone who is not in the medical profession and who has wandered into an emergency room may be baffled by the hours of waiting and the mysterious process by which nurses and doctors move patients ...