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 ...

ESI program develops swift decision-making skills that lead to better patient outcomes, Emergency Nurses Association says. The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) this week boosted the value of its ...

Tele-triage may offer an innovative strategy to help contain the increase in ED costs and volume for chest pain. Telehealth technologies (including telephone, email, video, and remote monitoring ...

Four years into a D.C. program in which nurses answer some 911 calls, officials say it's making a difference and saving thousands of people unnecessary trips to the emergency room. News4 got an inside ...

When a workplace injury occurs, employers with no medical training often must determine the severity of the injury and direct an employee to appropriate medical care. They may have to make on-the-spot ...

A new program in Washington D.C. has triage nurses helping 911 dispatchers field calls in an effort to divert non-emergency calls to urgent care centers and outpatient clinics while stemming wait ...

Washington, D.C., has one of the highest rates of 911 calls in the country, and 1 in 4 of them are not for real emergencies. They're for twisted ankles or coughs, rashes, that kind of thing. So D.C.

A Seattle woman waited more than 10 hours for a nurse-ordered ambulance, raising concerns about the city’s 911 nurse triage system and response standards.

Experts say differences in nurse line oversight, response-time standards and dispatch protocols across U.S. cities could affect how quickly patients receive care ...

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 ...