HLT POL 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Electronic Health Record, Push Technology, Walgreens

• School: UCLA
• Department: Health Policy and Management
• Course: HLT POL 100
• Professor: Marcy Boroff

Document Summary

Researchers provided push-alert notifications of the results immediately to physicians" smartphones and retroactively assessed 1,500 patients to determine how the notifications affected the length of the hospital stay. Physicians who received troponin results on their smartphones made the decision to discharge their patients with chest pain a median of 26 minutes faster than physicians without troponin push- alert notifications. Solutions such as tigertext also promise to further streamline communications among healthcare providers by integrating with critical hospital systems, including the electronic health record and nurse call systems. Moreover, tigertext recently launched a voice-activated solution that pushes patients" requests spoken to amazon alexa out to nurses via secure text. A phone loaded with mobility-monitoring software is worn at chest level, sensing, recording and communicating changes in stability and mobility. It then uses trend data collected over time to create personalized data points for each patient, which can be used to inform doctor diagnoses and possibly early intervention.