Improve Workflow and You Improve Patient Care
Today’s Impediments to Caregiver Workflow
Technology is meant to improve healthcare and reduce costs. Legacy paper-based record keeping systems must make way for new electronic records that can be easily created, appropriately shared, updated, and archived. The goal is to improve patient care with technology, but the real-world implementation of the technology often falls short due to the access limitations caused by current PC architectures. Every time a doctor or nurse attempts to logon to a PC in a new location, the process can take minutes to complete. Hospitals have tried many alternative technologies to help improve workflow including single sign on (SSO), traditional thin-clients, wireless laptops, pen tabs, ”computers on wheels”, and even turning PCs into kiosks. But these solutions never seem to deliver on the promise of access to data in seconds, or they create a whole new set of problems, sometimes worse, than those they attempted to solve.
The question is how to design a computing platform that is focused on how caregivers do their job. The answer is the ThinIdentity solution.
Creation of an Efficient Workflow
ThinIdentity allows caregivers to move easily from one terminal to another and instantly access their secure desktop session exactly as they left it at the previous terminal. To further improve the efficiency of the caregiver workflow, ThinIdentity’s Virtual Location Awareness technology has the power to recognize when the caregiver changes location. For example, ThinIdentity can dynamically update the caregiver’s desktop to print to the closest printer, or even launch new applications or reset security policies automatically, based on the new location’s predetermined workflow requirements.
This improved caregiver workflow means improved patient care. By enabling a smoother, faster online medication administration process at the point of care, hospitals can significantly reduce errors that can be caused by manual medical transcriptions.
Enabling Increased EHR Use by Doctors and Nurses
The speed of system logons and the unencumbered, free-roaming access characteristics of ThinIdentity make doctors and nurses its biggest supporters. When ThinIdentity is implemented in a hospital environment, the consistent use of EHR applications dramatically increases. Caregivers report that finally they have easy access to the tools available to help them improve patient care. Increased use of EHR applications also helps a hospital achieve regulatory compliance and allows for most hospitals to take advantage of recent federal funding initiatives.
