Streamlining the Point of Care with Clinical Mobility
One of the most common complaints from surgeons and clinicians is that they don’t have the right clinical information and communication tools they need at their fingertips. If they have to go back-and-forth to a desktop PC or an office to access patient records, imaging, lab results, or other critical information, it wastes time and creates delays in consultation and care.
Also, if they can’t communicate instantly and in real time with other clinicians and staff across your operations, it takes more time and effort to coordinate surgeries and workflows. Ultimately, not having the right information and tools readily available creates delays and obstacles that slow down the surgery center, creates a more disjointed and negative experience for patients, and increases the risk of costly and dangerous mistakes from human error and dangerous mix-ups of medications, specimens or blood.
To avoid these issues, surgery centers should execute a clinical mobility strategy that puts real-time information at surgeons’ and clinicians’ fingertips. By giving them mobile and on-demand access to patient records, imaging, lab results, FDA device information, all the apps, systems and communication tools they need, then the entire point of care becomes vastly safer and more efficient.
For example, by combining healthcare mobile computers or ET80 tablets with your EMR or other mobile apps, you can put the power, connectivity and information of a desktop PC in the hands of surgeons and other clinicians.
For example, with Zebra’s TC52-HC touch mobile computers, you get a complete set of tools and capabilities to streamline and improve the point of care, including:
Mobile access to EMR, imaging, lab results, inventory, etc.
Push-to-talk (PTT) inside and outside the four walls
Voice calls with mobile access to your PBX
Secure text messaging
Mobile alarms and alerts
Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth and NFC connectivity
Octa-core processing for resource-intensive apps
Hi-res video streaming for better collaboration
4GB RAM and 32GB Flash memory
Built-in barcode scanning with 1D/2D data capture
Disinfectant-ready design for safe and easy cleaning
Zebra’s ET80 tablets provide similar and expanded capabilities in a larger slate-style device, with more screen space to display patient records, medical data and images, while delivering real-time access to information and communications.
There are different device sizes and form factors that will deliver different benefits and advantages depending on each surgery center or role. But when you work with a mobile solutions provider that helps you select the right devices as well as test and design each use case for high user adoption and satisfaction, you can combine mobile computing with printing, labeling and scanning technologies to create a complete system for automating, digitizing, and streamlining the point of care.
As surgeons and clinicians are able to access information, collaborate and work more efficiently and effectively in real time, this frees up more time to focus on patient interactions. And patients see that their care is accurate and well-coordinated, which boosts their confidence, comfort and satisfaction.
Since clinical staff have immediate and mobile access to the medical information and tools they need at the point of care, it also means there’s less burden, waste, and manual effort. And this saves time and cost for surgery centers and helps reduce risks from delays, manual processes, and human error.
It also simplifies ITs job by bringing together all the data, information, apps and tools that clinicians need in simple, easy-to-use, easy-to-manage and highly durable and reliable devices.
Instead of struggling with slow and disconnected systems or informational blind spots, patients, clinicians and IT can all benefit from a holistically mobile and digital system that unifies and streamlines the point of care. And with a managed healthcare mobile services and technology provider, you can offload much of the burden of installing, maintaining and supporting your systems to outside experts who manage all of your technologies so you don’t have to.
