Question

Need summary of the below articel in your own words and recommention to the hospital to use the below techonology.

Every year ECRI Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving patient care, releases its Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns. The 2018 list is out, and while it may be no surprise that diagnostic errors and opioid safety top this year’s concerns, it’s telling that internal care coordination is number three on the list.

Clinical communication and collaboration solutions such as Voalte Platform are fast becoming a top priority because of the impact they have on care coordination, as well as patient care and safety. Using Voalte smartphones, caregivers have access to an up-to-the-minute directory that connects to the appropriate person with just one tap. They also receive immediate alerts from nurse call and physiologic monitors so they can respond promptly to patient needs.

Another way Voalte customers are improving internal care coordination is by sending critical lab values straight to the nurse at the bedside. By integrating with the electronic medical record, Voalte Platform ensures the nurse receives this vital information in seconds, and that he or she can reach out to the physician just as quickly. Before these integrations, the lab had to place a call to the Unit Secretary, who would try to locate the nurse. After the nurse received the message and reviewed the lab results, he or she would try to reach the physician, starting a game of phone tag. This whole process could easily take 15 or 30 minutes, versus the mere seconds involved with the smartphone workflow. That time is crucial for conditions such as sepsis, where the faster the care team responds, the better the patient’s chance of a successful outcome.

Our customers have found that quick communication and coordination is vital to reducing delays that affect patient safety. Recently, Nikki Harvey, MSN, RN, Cardiovascular Clinical Nurse Specialist at University of Kansas Health System, wrote an article in Becker’s Hospital Review. She said, “The University of Kansas Health converted to our smartphone system because we knew that better, more information-rich communications would improve patient safety and the quality of care.” Read the article to learn how the health system also used Voalte Platform to help address alarm overload and fatigue, ultimately reducing non-actionable alarms on one unit by 30 percent.

As the University of Kansas Health and other health systems are finding, using Voalte Platform in conjunction with alarm middleware increases the speed with which they respond to patients. Messages are sent to the right person quickly, and if that person is unable to respond, it escalates automatically to the next person. As the ERCI Institute points out, “Patient safety is a top priority for every healthcare organization, but knowing where to direct patient safety initiatives can be a daunting task.” If your organization is looking for ways to improve patient safety, feel free to reach out to me to discuss the ways Voalte Platform impacts internal care coordination.

Answer 1

ECRI institute has brought three concerns in regards to Diagnostic errors, opioid safety and internal care coordination in 2018

To provide a solution to this Voalte forms a platform as Voalte smartphone used by the healthcare team as s group.It enables easy access and exchange of information between healthcare professionals by just one tap .Its benefits are

• Can receive immediate alerts from nurse call,physiologic reading,
• sending critical values to nurse to take appropriate intervention in seconds reaching Up to the physician and getting information through EMR
• The work is minimised by the lab team not needed to inform unit Secretary and then he locates the nurse ,them nurse convey this to physician simply it is time saving
• Timing reduced from 15-30 minutes to few seconds
• very helpful in treating a patient with sepsis who needs a faster care team
• Reduce in alarm mode by 30% in an unit
• right person receives message if unable to reach, it automatically redirects or escalate it to next person
• brought an impact on internal Carr coordination

Voalte platform this can improve patient safety and a necessary one in the healthcare sector