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Everyone’s talking about Meaningful Use Stage 2. But if you know much about Voalte, you know we don’t just go along with what everyone else is doing.
In fact, four years ago Voalte was first to introduce iPhones at the point of care, and hospital nurses were using Voalte One before EMR companies even started building apps for mobile use. Our solution improves communication so effectively, we’re working with third parties to incorporate our technology into their systems.
Now, when everyone else is focused on Stage 2, we’re already working on Stage 3 initiatives … and beyond.
So far, nurses at acute care hospitals have benefitted most from Voalte solutions. That will change as we expand our services to clinical departments such as pharmacy and radiology, physicians working inside and outside the hospital, and other healthcare workers. In other words, everyone involved throughout the entire “continuum of care.”
Too often, hospitals function as an assembly line, with sick patients going in one door and healthy people coming out another. Treatment takes place within the confined box of the hospital. The problem is, too many people end up back where they started, with some studies showing 1 in 5 patients being readmitted within a month.
What if we re-invent the impersonal process of leaving the hospital, when most patients are too groggy to fully understand a doctor’s orders? What if a nurse could tell a patient: “Download this app, then go home and get some rest. We will contact you in 24 hours to answer any questions and make sure you’ve taken your medicine.”
Follow-up communication like this won’t be cost-prohibitive for the hospital, and could boost patient satisfaction scores as well.
When we started Voalte, we focused on introducing smartphones into the point of care. In the next couple of years, we will be growing beyond the bedside, outside the hospital, and even into patients’ homes. With Stage 3 requirements expected to take effect in 2016, the innovative solutions we’re thinking about today will create meaningful results in the future.
Illustration by Miguel Elasmar
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Everyone’s talking about Meaningful Use Stage 2. But if you know much about Voalte, you know we don’t just go along with what everyone else is doing. In fact, four years ago Voalte was first to introduce iPhones at the point of care, and hospital nurses were using Voalte One before EMR companies even started building apps for mobile use. Our solution improves communication so effectively, we’re working with third parties to incorporate our technology into their systems.
Now, when everyone else is focused on Stage 2, we’re already working on Stage 3 initiatives … and beyond.
So far, nurses at acute care hospitals have benefitted most from Voalte solutions. That will change as we expand our services to clinical departments such as pharmacy and radiology, physicians working inside and outside the hospital, and other healthcare workers. In other words, everyone involved throughout the entire “continuum of care.”
Too often, hospitals function as an assembly line, with sick patients going in one door and healthy people coming out another. Treatment takes place within the confined box of the hospital. The problem is, too many people end up back where they started, with some studies showing 1 in 5 patients being readmitted within a month.
What if we re-invent the impersonal process of leaving the hospital, when most patients are too groggy to fully understand a doctor’s orders? What if a nurse could tell a patient: “Download this app, then go home and get some rest. We will contact you in 24 hours to answer any questions and make sure you’ve taken your medicine.”
Follow-up communication like this won’t be cost-prohibitive for the hospital, and could boost patient satisfaction scores as well.
When we started Voalte, we focused on introducing smartphones into the point of care. In the next couple of years, we will be growing beyond the bedside, outside the hospital, and even into patients’ homes. With Stage 3 requirements expected to take effect in 2016, the innovative solutions we’re thinking about today will create meaningful results in the future.
Illustration by Miguel Elasmar
