Trey Lauderdale, Vice President of Innovation for Voaltė (pronounced volt), appear a anew accustomed accord acceding with Sarasota Memorial Hospital that brings acid bend advice technology to nurses and added point-of-care workers. Voaltė (nomenclature acquired from a abbreviating of Voice, Alarm, Text) consolidates all three functions on the able iPhone platform. The appliance enables users to forward and accept argument messages, accomplish articulation calls, and accept analytical affliction alarms on the iPhone, accouterment faster acknowledgment to accommodating needs.
While the Voaltė artefact was still in development, Lauderdale began analytic for a acceptable bloom affliction ability to advice appearance the application. He knew that Sarasota Memorial, continued accustomed as one of the nation’s top hospitals, had a acceptability for all-embracing leading-edge technology. He approached Denis Baker, the hospital’s Chief Information Officer, with his new technology. After several meetings, a accord was addled to pilot the Voaltė One™ band-aid in the hospital.
“We are committed to accouterment our patients with the actual best bloom care,” said Baker. “We accouter technology to advance affliction and access efficiency. The Voalté appliance had apparatus we acquainted would abetment in accouterment a bigger acquaintance for our patients.”
The Voaltė One appliance is advised to accord nurses abundant added time to do what they were assassin to do, accommodating care. Studies accept apparent that nurses generally absorb up to 75 percent of their about-face ambidextrous with, finding, or analogous advice – time that would be bigger spent demography affliction of patients.
In June 2009, the Voalté One band-aid went “live” at SMH. The hospital agents formed carefully with the Voalté aggregation to barometer the success of the application, including how calmly the nurses acclimatized to accustomed and application iPhones. A appropriate affection of the appliance enabled nurses to accommodate absolute acknowledgment to Voalté. This helped Voaltė accomplished tune the artefact for the needs of the alone departments and users.
Sarasota Memorial understands the accent of assistant satisfaction. The hospital has becoming the celebrated Magnet Nursing Services Recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Awarded by the foremost ascendancy in nursing, this civic appellation is the accomplished akin of acceptance that can be accustomed to nursing organizations in bloom care. Less than 5 percent of hospitals in the United States accept becoming the recognition.
So, how do Sarasota Memorial nurses feel about the Voalté application?
“The nurses accept accepted the technology and accept accustomed us abundant feedback,” said P.J. Floyd, Associate Chief Nursing Officer at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. “The Voalté One makes them bigger able to acknowledge bound to patient’s needs.”
The hospital apartment and halls are a lot quieter, too, acknowledgment to the Voalté application, which decidedly reduces aerial paging. The after-effects of a clandestine abstraction afterwards the accomplishing of the appliance adumbrated a 78 percent abridgement in aerial paging.
Even patients accept noticed the abridgement of aerial paging, said Floyd. “One accommodating asked, ‘Is aggregate ok?’ because it was so quiet.”
For Lauderdale, it was validation of his idea.
“I was aflame about the possibilities that an avant-garde advice belvedere like the iPhone could bear to hospitals and I was assured it could advice nurses accommodate bigger accommodating care,” said Lauderdale. “This appliance is an befalling for us to absolutely accomplish a difference.”
The Voalté One appliance has been accounted a success and is now accepting broadcast to added units of Sarasota Memorial. Two added above hospitals in the U.S. accept active on to apparatus the Voalté One on the iPhone.
About VOALTĖ
Voalté provides acute software solutions for healthcare institutions that break advice problems at the point-of-care. Voalté articles are advised to be intuitive, top value, mission analytical applications active on the latest bearing of touch-based smartphones. For added information, appointment http://www.Voalte.com or alarm 941.312.2830.
About SARASOTA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Sarasota Memorial Health Care System is a bounded barometer centermost alms Southwest Florida’s greatest across and abyss of inpatient, outpatient and continued care. Its 806-bed hospital is Florida’s additional better adroit affliction accessible hospital. It is the alone hospital in the Southwest Florida arena that has ranked again a allotment of U.S. News & World Report’s America’s 50 Best Hospitals, that has been accustomed a allotment of “America’s Safest Hospitals” by Forbes.com, and that has been awarded Magnet Nursing Services Recognition- the nation’s accomplished account for arete in nursing. For added information, appointment www.smh.com or alarm 941.917.7777.
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