Addressing the bigger picture with mobile technology

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There are many components to operating a healthcare organization, and with the advancement of technology, there is much more to learn and more to gain. Healthcare executives have the opportunity to leverage technology to their advantage and help connect their organization. This is a comprehensive guide on learning how to connect different facilities across diverse care settings to create one fluid organization.

Addressing the bigger picture with mobile technology

Workflow optimization Health systems are under heavy pressure to contain cost without compromising quality of care. Fortunately, with mobile technology, healthcare organizations can improve workflow efficiencies while improving patient experiences. Here’s how. Process efficiency How can you make your processes even more efficient with advanced technology? • Monitor—Workflow automation technology can help providers monitor and quickly report patients’ health history. • Round efficiently—Mobile virtualization devices help assist with rounding and improve patient satisfaction. • Prevent errors—Communication solutions help you stay in touch with families and nurses, reducing errors that could extend the stay of a patient, which can increase costs.

Interoperability How can you establish a common clinical data set that allows safe and simple information sharing? • Integration—Connected systems help care providers access information across the healthcare system, resulting in better care and outcomes. • Collaboration—Interoperability enables data sharing and analysis that helps providers stop duplicating efforts and take more actions toward collaboration and optimizing resources.

Patient engagement The relationship between patient and physician is crucial to improving patient outcomes, reducing hospital admissions and addressing chronic disease. There are new emerging strategies that can help empower patients to collaborate with doctors and take greater control over their care. Remote care How can you save time and money by helping patients connect with providers? • Self-manage—Remote-monitoring solutions help patients monitor and treat their own conditions with remote help from a physician. • Empower patients—Patients have an opportunity to engage with providers via secure messaging to ask questions about treatment and care coordination.

• Collaborate—An online portal for connection helps improve collaboration among caregivers and patients.

Customer-driven technology How can you address consumer demand for receiving and transmitting health-related data in real time? • Improved rounding efficiencies—A secure, single-source portal can provide earlier interventions, improved outcomes and increased patient satisfaction ratings. • Collaborative services—Near Field Communication (NFC) with GPS provides double electronic-visit verification and improves care delivery accuracy for patient/ client locations (e.g., hospice houses, longterm care facilities, rehab/therapy locations and outpatient facilities). It helps reduce work-prone errors that result in slowed revenue cycles.

• Smart devices—On-device time and mileage dashboard improves staff efficiency, safety and retention of care providers. • Alerts—Patient-specific alerts help improve care-delivery workflow and enable engagement of family and clients in the care process.

How Verizon can help Through the nation’s strongest, most reliable 4G LTE network, Verizon can help organizations get in touch with the partners they need to adopt the right technology in the right way to help connect their departments and boost efficiency. Together with our partners, we offer a suite of applications, hardware and service solutions that can help hospitals manage their internal processes to do more with less, without sacrificing quality care.

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