The wave of the future is technology. As much as that may be a cliche, it’s true. If you look at the last century, you will see that humans have made more advances in civilization in terms of technology than the previous two millenia. While there is cons to all this industrialization, there is no doubt that our lives are easier because of this technology.

Technology has made a decided impact on the healthcare industry. Perhaps the best gauge of this is our life expectancy, which is different from lifespan. Humans’ life span has remained relatively the same, which means we all have a chance to live into our 70s and 80s. However, more of us are doing so because our life expectancy has jumped dramatically due to the increase in medical care, from vaccines to lower infant mortality rates and a decrease in heart disease, homicide, and the flu. Technology has made life, truthfully, better in so many ways, and we can thank the advances in medical care for many of those.

Symtech Solutions offers the best life safety communication and rapid response monitoring systems for your healthcare facility, from RTLS systems to panic buttons, public address systems, and temperature screening kiosks to digital whiteboards. Since 1982, we’ve been helping regional medical centers, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, senior living centers, and more on the East Coast and nationwide improve their patient care and streamline their processes. Below, we’ll continue our look at how digital whiteboards can help save your healthcare facility money. Contact us to learn more today!

WAYS YOUR HEALTHCARE FACILITY CAN SAVE MONEY WITH DIGITAL WHITEBOARDS

Improves HCAPHS Scores

The point of constantly innovating new processes and efficiencies is to improve patient experience. HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) scores are “the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients’ perspectives of hospital care and experience,” according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. These surveys are designed to offer healthcare facilities feedback so that they can improve patient care. They also determine how large of a reimbursement they will receive from Centers for Medicare. Additionally, these scores are important because they are reported on the internet, so that future patients can see the results. This can impact whether patients choose your healthcare facility over another. They function very similar to business reviews you will find on the internet.

How Digital Whiteboards directly affect yours scores includes:

• Patient Education – Digital whiteboards can have educational videos or content for patients to view. Staff can also see how much of their educational content has been completed. This ensures that the patient understands their diagnosis and has a lower chance of readmittance. Digital education also reduces the amount of paper and ink the facility will use. read more in
• Transparency – Digital whiteboards allows patients to view their care plan, schedule, medication, which staff member has visited you and more. Overall, this creates a more comfortable environment because, the patient knows exactly what is going on during their stay.
• Workflow – Digital whiteboards help to streamline a lot of manual and duplicate tasks performed by caregivers. With a better workflow, staff can have more time for their patients. Overall, improving patient care and experience.

Digital whiteboards improve the patient’s experience in many ways.  High HCAPHS scores can translate into more patients choosing your healthcare facility over another, which not only saves you money on advertising, but also improves your revenue as patients choose your healthcare facility over others.  While money is never the object of a healthcare facility, money is needed to pay providers and staff a fair wage and to ensure your healthcare facility has all of the latest technology to ensure your patients have the highest-quality medical care available.

Offers Telehealth/Video Chat

There’s no doubt about it that when patients stay home and use telehealth rather than come into your healthcare facility, your facility will save money. There is less backlog if someone is late or if an appointment is running long. You will be able to see more patients because you won’t have to plan for this time. And there will be less germs passed back and forth, so both your providers and your patients will stay healthier. Video chat via digital whiteboards can be done internally and externally. Meaning if a patient is under a contact protocol inside the facility, staff can use a whiteboard to video chat with the whiteboard inside the patient room. It can also be used if the patient is off campus and the caregiver is on campus.

Video chat on digital whiteboards also allows for contactless interactions, keeping everyone safe. You’ll save on PPE or personal protective equipment when you can use telehealth services. This can be a big expense since after every person-to-person interaction you have results in gloves and masks having to be discarded. This not only wastes money, but it wastes natural resources. In the grand scheme of things, when you save resources, everyone saves money since fewer raw materials will have to be sourced and less carbon fuels will have to be used to manufacture PPE. Thus, digital whiteboards save the environment, too!

CHOOSE SYMTECH SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR DIGITAL WHITEBOARD SOLUTIONS TODAY

With COVID-19, the role technology plays in healthcare is even more important. In order for people to continue to receive the highest-quality care, it’s important to investigate all options available that would help your healthcare facility with patient care.

Symtech Solutions offers amazing rapid response monitoring solutions for your healthcare facility, as well as life safety communication systems. We love partnering with healthcare facilities to help them meet their staff and their patients’ needs. Our rapid response systems offer patients the ability to be seen immediately and the healthcare providers the ability to know when they are needed quickly. When seconds count, nurse call buttons, location and tracking systems that can tell you where your equipment is, and infant security systems that keep newborns safe, can be life-saving. Our temperature sensing kiosks ensure those entering your healthcare facility are healthy, and our digital whiteboards ensure seamless communication between healthcare providers and for patients and their families. 

Technology, including digital whiteboards, will save your healthcare facility money so that you can continually improve patient care. Contact us to learn more and get started today!