Collaboration
Caregiver Collaboration
Deliver Meaningful Patient Health Information to Enhance Teamwork at the Point of Care
Implementation and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) gives physicians and clinicians quick access to comprehensive, patient-specific clinical information in digital format. EHRs and related clinical applications that automate workflows and organize patient data are only the beginning.
Delivering accurate and timely patient information to care providers is a primary tool in the journey to enhance efficiencies and improve patient outcomes. Advancements in digital imaging, unified communications, and mobility enable providers to view resources and information and collaborate effectively independent of physical location.
For example, telemedicine and videoconferencing solutions— including voice, desktop video, and immersive telepresence— make it possible to transfer high-resolution images, sounds, live video, and patient records from one location to another. These systems support remote primary care and diagnosis, consultation, and other healthcare specialty services.
Back on-site, staff at acute facilities can remotely monitor patient information and establish secure online portals to coordinate patient diagnoses and treatments with colleagues and specialists. With unified communications systems, you can see where everyone in your healthcare organization is located at any time, how to contact them, and when they are free—making it faster and easier to collaborate and coordinate efforts, even among various departments such as nursing, housekeeping, surgery, and pharmacy.
Hospitals can integrate nurse call and unified communications to alert on-call staff of critical information and the need for intervention. Patients can reach nurses, and nurses can immediately collaborate with each other, physicians, and staff.
In addition, deploying digital signage can help hospitals and doctors’ offices ease the check-in process, help patients find their way around the building, minimize wait times, and assist patients, staff, and visitors. While waiting for their appointment, patients can view instructional content that helps them communicate with physicians during their visit— collaborating in their own care.
The well-coordinated efforts of a patient care team are the foundation of quality care; IT tools can facilitate this potentially life-saving teamwork. HealthConnection can help you integrate these tools to enhance communication and give quick-access to information—call us to get started today.
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