SOLUTIONS FOR ACUTE CARE - WIRELESS HOSPITAL INTEGRATED MESSAGING SYSTEM
IMS reduces potential for error, delay, and frustration by making your staff-to-staff and patient-to-staff communications more efficient. Successful hospitals must respond to patients, physicians, nurses, and other staff members quickly and accurately. Think about the role of technology in this environment. A communication system that gets the right information to the right person at the right time can lead to improved patient safety, increased satisfaction, better efficiencies, or even mean the difference between life and death. We accomplish this by reducing the number of steps in your communications processes, streamlining your existing systems into one, and instantly outputting information to all your wireless devices.
EXAMPLE: NURSE CALL INTEGRATIONCommtech Messenger in conjunction with the nurse call system can assign each bed in the hospital to the wireless phone of the nurse on duty and can escalate to another staff member if the assigned nurse isn’t able to respond to the initial call. Every message is permanently logged in Commtech Messenger, enabling the staff to track who has sent, received, and responded to notifications - and within what timeframe. This helps them manage and improve response times reduce the incident of
alarm fatigue .
Hospital Integrated Messaging System Benefits:
- Increase patient safety
- Reduce response time
- Improve patient and staff satisfaction
- Increase efficiency
- Reduce alarm fatigue for Nurses
- Lower recurring costs
"Alarm Fatigue" refers to the response - or lack of it - of nurses to more than a dozen types of alarms that can sound hundreds of times a day - and many of those calls are false alarms.
Excerpt from a CBS News report: Alarm fatigue" blamed in hospital deaths
