Snelkoppelingen
22 December 2023
15 Minutes
In modern healthcare, data drives every decision you make. Yet too often, when we hear the word “data,” we think of charting in the EMR. While EMRs are essential to informing patient care and hospital initiatives, they may not present a complete picture.
Your patients’ rooms are rich sources of data — some of which routes to the EMR, and some of which may not. Are you leveraging the data at your patients’ bedsides to its fullest extent? We’ve put together a brief checklist to get you started on thinking beyond the EMR, so you can break down healthcare data siloes that may be limiting your impact.
Your patients spend more time in bed than anywhere else during their stays. The right smart beds can act as extensions of your care teams, gathering and sharing timely insights to help inform patient care and support continuous improvement initiatives. For example:
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We designed purposeful integrations between Hillrom Centrella Smart+ Beds and the Voalte clinical communication platform to help alert care teams to patient fall risks quickly with:
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In addition to timely interventions, you can use reporting to take a retroactive look at protocol compliance and identify areas for improvement. Understand where your teams are meeting expectations — and where additional training may be needed — with historical views of:
Nurse Call systems provide vital lifelines between patients and their caregivers.5 These essential systems share a wide variety of information every day — ranging from simple requests to patient risk and bed safety statuses.6 Are you using this data to inform your care practices and protocols? Here are just a few examples of how hospitals can break down healthcare data siloes by leveraging readily available Nurse Call data:
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Voalte Nurse Call provides the data-rich context you need to route each request to the appropriate teammate and help them respond faster.7 For example:
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Once each alert type is routing to the right team, take a look at retrospective reports to see which targeted improvements could have the greatest impact. For example:
With more context providing more useful data, the possibilities for data-driven care improvements are virtually limitless.
It’s easy to get bogged down by complex connected patient monitoring systems. Even traditional EHR integrations may fall short without a unified platform to compile and present vital information. With the right medical device integration solution, your care teams can access the real-time monitoring they need, when they need it. For example:
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With our Excel Medical Device Integration solution, you can view patient data from Nihon Kohden, GE and Philips monitors on the go,8 including:
In addition to sending this data to the EHR…
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The wide-ranging data from these monitors is often helpful for clinical research and quality review analysis. The Excel Medical solution allows you to export data to a spreadsheet or in XML format for analysis and review.ss.
Mobile clinical communication can play a large role in expanding access to timely data, even for teams that don’t use the EHR.
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EHRs alone may not reach all members of the care team or support urgent messages like codes. Mobile communication solutions like Voalte Mobile can help keep teams informed without relying on the EMR for all updates.9
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Look to your mobile communication reporting to see which teams are sending the most text-based messages through the system. These adoption rates can be helpful in correlating communication to a number of other metrics, from response times to patient satisfaction scores to discharge times. Dig into why teams are using the system more or less — then invest in training or open up discussions where needed.
A lot happens in your patients’ rooms. EMRs are essential tools for informing care — both in the moment and after the fact — but when you tap into other data within the room, you can extend your power even farther. Hillrom care communication solutions like the Voalte platform are designed to help you connect teams and technologies across your organization. Reach out today to see how we can help you step away from healthcare data siloes, and step into the future of connected care.
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