Access to patient information, clinical data, and systems supporting the electronic health record are vital to the operations of healthcare organizations. Clinical decision support initiatives help improve the quality and efficiency of care being provided. Improved access to patient information can reduce duplicate costs and improve patient comfort and treatment awareness. Systems facilitating BCMA and PPID help to reduce errors in the care delivery process. Communication solutions that reduce clinical effort can also maximize the amount of time spent in the delivery of care. All of these initiatives require applications, processes, information, and technology that need to be delivered in a timely and reliable fashion.

Improving Technology for Better Patient Care

Networking and communication systems are vital elements in the successful delivery of these systems and data. Point-of-care solutions, physician workflow, medical records management, and many vital healthcare systems rely on the communications infrastructure selected. Unfortunately, many organizations and independent research firms cite problems with the ease of use and reliability of current technology. Studies have suggested that simple nursing functions, such as phone interaction with care providers or tracking medical equipment, are highly inefficient and excessively time consuming. In some cases, less than two thirds of skilled staff’s time is spent with patients due to manual process and unreliable technology.

Application availability and performance issues also present challenges among healthcare providers. It is essential that all aspects of connectivity, performance, and communications delivery be considered when addressing the networking and communication needs of your healthcare system. Our HealthDynamix professionals are able to analyze the needs of the entire enterprise by utilizing network, workflow, and process assessments in order to understand how best to improve your organization’s functionality. Let our team of professionals explain how we have helped other healthcare organizations improve their networking and communication environments, and how we can help your organization provide improved service reliability.

Healthcare represents one of the most challenging mobile computing environments currently deployed. An increasing number of devices have been optimized for mobile use, or rely upon wireless connectivity. Point-of-care systems, equipment tracking, medical devices, tele-medicine, voice, patient access, physician computing, and many other vital systems utilize the wireless network infrastructure. While wireless technologies have matured in their life cycle, numerous problems remain and are often the underlying cause for increased support incidents.

Application performance problems and connectivity issues are often a result of current wireless network inadequacies. Over-subscription of access points, competing signals from neighboring access points, improperly placed equipment, and dead zones complicate the delivery of vital care process tools. New applications such as tele-medicine and tele-translation, combined with the increasing number of mobile devices, have together outpaced available bandwidth presented by a/b/g technologies. For these reasons, many organizations are considering upgrading their current wireless networks. These new technologies include 802.11n – offering significant improvement to wireless bandwidth and performance.

Increased Performance – Customized for Your Organization

HealthDynamix mobility teams can help your organization understand the source of existing problems within your wireless network to ensure that these problems do not persist as newer technologies are deployed. We will also work to ensure that the corresponding service quality and security is delivered, and fully supports applications and systems. We believe it is vital organizations receive more than the timely delivery of equipment when considering wireless networking solutions. Let our HealthDynamix professionals show you how to improve your next mobility solution.

Coordination of care between staff members treating a patient is vital in the care process. Many individuals play a vital role in this coordination, whereas nursing staff provide a crucial focal point for the needs of the patients. Unfortunately, nursing staff can spend a majority of their time walking to place/receive calls in this coordination process. Physicians roam between multiple facilities and multiple patients making efficient communication challenging. Simple functions, such as the review and/or discharge of a patient, can take considerably longer due to inadequate communication tools and systems.

For these reasons, many organizations have optimized applications for mobile access and provided single interface points for vital patient care decisions. Understanding the physical locations of vital personnel, their activities or “presence” at these locations, and communication systems/tools for the efficient exchange of voice/data communications are vital to the unified healthcare communication strategy. A well-planned strategy can improve the care process and the efficiency of hospital operations contributing to the reduction of costs and increase of revenues. HealthDynamix professionals work with customers to:

• Understand an organization’s current investments in communication systems and applications

• Provide a roadmap of options that can enhance these investments

• Highlight areas where new technologies can play a vital role

Let our HealthDynamix team help you start improving your unified communications solutions today.

Access to a diminishing number of local, trained physician specialists is proving to be an increasing problem in the healthcare community. Many government initiatives are aimed at improving and increasing the access to care among those who are underserved (i.e., have limited access due to location, insurance status, or providing care facility). In recent years, insurance providers have acknowledged tele-consultations as an effective and cost-effective solution for the treatment of patients. Patients with time-sensitive medical conditions, such as stroke, may need instant access to specialized diagnosis. Other patients, with less critical issues, may need to be transported great distances (at great cost) to receive the required care. In many cases, unfortunately, many of these patients are unable to receive their treatment in a timely fashion.

With advances in technology, applications, and connectivity, the diagnosis, consultation, and delivery of specialized care can be greatly increased by improving the scalability of specialists. The HealthDynamix team of specialists offers solutions to facilitate the viewing of various image modalities remotely, conduct video consultations, and provide efficient exchange and collaboration of patient data. We can also work with your organization to identify the required support needs based on your current skills and resources. This will ensure that your specialized staff can focus on providing care and not supporting the underlying technology.

Many healthcare providers are coordinating the delivery of hundreds of applications to support the daily needs of their organization. The increasing complexity and variety of applications has caused many organizations to re-evaluate their approach to enterprise architecture. Decisions concerning servers, storage, and networking are intertwined compared with earlier generations when architectural elements were often selected independently. The need to provide quality of service at the application level highlights the need for deployed enterprise technology to be built-out modularly, and function as a coordinated matrix in the delivery of applications.

Our HealthDynamix professionals can work with your organization to determine and evaluate service level requirements and existing data center architecture in order to better understand how the available networking options will impact larger technology considerations and improve service delivery. Current data center architectures will struggle when considering the growing footprint and scale of newer technologies. Let our HealthDynamix team work with your organization to create an enterprise architecture roadmap that will allow informed and coordinated decisions regarding your networks, servers, and storage.