Beaumont, Texas-based Baptist Hospital opened a triage outside its emergency room to help flu patients avoid long ER wait times, according to a KMBT report. The majority of the increased number of ER ...

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 ...

As the largest hospital in Humboldt County and home to a Level III Trauma Center, Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka’s Emergency Department has seen a steady increase in patients since the COVID ...

Patients in sickle cell crisis can wait in agony for hours if inappropriately triaged by an ER Those inappropriately placed in a less severe pain category waited nearly three times as long for their ...

A Greeley hospital will add 6,000 square feet to its emergency department to improve efficiency and patient care. Nine exam rooms, three intake rooms and additional space for patients, staff and ...

Telemedicine is growing at a rapid pace fueled by faster Internet connections, the ubiquity of smartphones and personal devices, and new software platforms that connect patients with providers more ...

A multinational collaboration at Eitri medical innovation center in Bergen, Norway, has used machine learning models to identify patient groups at risk of being mistreated. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Background: Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) currently face inacceptable delays in initial treatment, and long, costly hospital stays due to suboptimal initial triage and ...

Those inappropriately placed in a less severe pain category waited nearly three times as long for their first pain meds Some patients left after nearly six hours without treatment, and none got timely ...