Healthcare Tech You Need for 2022
Hospital work is vital to the health of any community, but it’s also incredibly strenuous. Now, escalating staff shortages put healthcare workers at higher risk for burnout. With the hospital environment increasingly inhospitable, advanced technology is essential to lighten the workload and protect staff, patients, and visitors from clinical errors, security risks, and healthcare associated infection (HAI).
Vizabli ACES for communication
Vizabli’s Acute Care Engagement Solution (ACES) is an integrated communication system that allows for real-time updates to critical patient data. ACES smartboards replace old fashioned marker boards and multicolored caution flags to provide timely, intentional updates accessible to clinical staff throughout the facility. ACES also incorporates mobile connectivity to keep providers in the loop whether they’re on- or offsite. With Vizabli’s ACES, clinicians, patients, and loved ones are always up to date.
ACES integrates with electronic health records (EHRs), nurse call systems, real-time location systems (RTLS), and other facility technology. Integrated systems are designed to work well together, and seamless real-time communication lightens the load on staff and prevents potentially dangerous clinical errors.
CFI Autonomous Mobile Robots
The average hospital employee walks miles out of their way several times a shift. Most of those extra miles are dedicated to running errands, including transporting laundry and delivering lab samples. Couple this with the ever-increasing staff shortages, and it’s no surprise that burnout and exhaustion plague healthcare workers.
CFI’s autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are built to address this problem. This fleet of specialized robots is designed to take some of the burden off healthcare workers by taking over routine tasks that eat up their time and contribute to physical and emotional exhaustion. Transport AMRs deliver food and other items to patient rooms, collect dirty linen for laundering, and redistribute it when it’s clean. Transport robots are ideal for standard delivery jobs or deliveries to quarantined patients.
Concierge AMRs give directions, guide patients and visitors through facilities, and even check visitors for fever to guard against infection. These friendly robots can provide information, interpret several languages, entertain waiting patients and visitors, and even act as sentries for restricted areas.
HID SAFE for Healthcare
For managing security, there’s HID SAFE for Healthcare. This physical identity and access management (PIAM) solution is web-based and networkable, so it can handle the needs of multiple facilities. HID SAFE provides enterprise-wide visitor management, including internal and external watchlist checks and per patient approved or denied visitor lists.
HID SAFE’s robust visitor management technology enhances facility security, but it’s also useful for limiting the spread of HAI. It helps hospitals comply with contact-tracing requirements via visitation tracking functionality and tailored screening questions for limiting infection exposure. The system allows for traffic control within units by restricting the number of in-room visitors at any given time.
Healthcare is essential, but it’s stressful for both staff and patients. With constant innovations in technology, there’s a lot you can do to relieve the burden on hospital staff and improve the patient experience. From robots who handle routine chores to information gathering and communication systems, these advancements are poised to lift a huge weight from the shoulders of clinical staff and administrators.
To learn more about the latest innovations in healthcare technology for your facility, contact sgranillo@TRLSystems.com.