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Enterprise Mobility in Healthcare: One Device, Multiple Tasks
Healthcare is under enormous pressure due to the aging population, price increases and staff shortages. Automating processes improves patient safety, allows healthcare providers to do more in less time and reduces the risk of errors. Technological developments also provide new functionalities and applications that benefit both healthcare providers and patients.
In hospitals, many kilometers are covered during work. With mobile devices that are specially designed for the healthcare sector, healthcare personnel can perform all kinds of tasks quickly and efficiently. These tasks can be roughly divided into three groups:
1. Direct communication: contact via Wi-Fi or sim
These mobile devices allow you to communicate quickly and efficiently via Wi-Fi or sim. Care providers can call doctors, colleagues and other departments directly, regardless of their location within the hospital. This makes quick consultation, obtaining advice or calling in additional expertise easier, resulting in better care.
2. Alerting: Respond quickly in emergency situations
The mobile devices are also used for alarms. In emergency situations, healthcare providers can call for help directly via an integrated alarm button, which is crucial in busy hospital environments where every second counts. In addition, the device can be used for heart monitoring. By linking an app on the device to the heart monitor, the patient’s heart rate can be monitored with the device. If there is an abnormality, an alarm is sent to the healthcare provider, who can take immediate action.
3. Information provision: access to the EHR everywhere
The mobile device offers healthcare providers access to the electronic patient record (EPD) via a mobile app. Where previously the EPD could only be accessed via a PC and manual notes had to be retyped, a mobile app offers direct access. With a mobile device, healthcare professionals can consult, modify or add patient data in real time, even at the patient’s bedside. This increases efficiency, reduces the chance of errors and ensures that all relevant information is always at hand.
From multiple devices to one multifunctional device
Currently, healthcare providers in most hospitals have multiple devices in use. Healthcare providers walk around with their pockets full of equipment: a telephone for direct communication, a pager for alarms, and for searching or processing information, a fixed workplace (PC) or tablet is often used.
How great would it be to give healthcare providers a single mobile device that they can use for multiple purposes? With that one device, they have the information provision (EPD) and the alarm system and a means of communication in their pocket.
This increases efficiency, reduces the chance of errors and increases the job satisfaction of healthcare providers.
But using one mobile device offers more advantages:
• Cost savings: with fewer devices, the purchase and maintenance costs for the hospital are lower.
• Easier management: one central device makes management and support more transparent.
• Ease of use: Caregivers do not have to switch between different devices, simplifying the workflow.
• Efficiency: one device for communication, information provision and alarms saves time and prevents unnecessary interruptions.
• Better care coordination: rapid access to information and direct communication promote collaboration between care providers and departments.
Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital is going to take this step
At the moment, the healthcare providers at the Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital are still strongly focused on information provision, but they will also use their mobile devices for communication and alarms. Our supplier Zebra has made a nice case study of this.
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