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How can physicians become engaged when they're struggling to communicate with the rest of the care team? It all starts with smartphones.
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How can physicians become engaged when they’re struggling to communicate
with the rest of the care team?
Poor communication has a high cost.
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. “Sentinel Event Type Root Causes by Event Type 2004-2Q2013,” September 20, 2013,
“National Patient Safety Goals Effective January 1, 2014,” 2013.
Nurses hunt down doctors.
Pager use is declining.
“Where pagers haven’t gone extinct yet,” Verne Kopytoff, CNN Money, July 16, 2013.
Are your physicians sharing information with the entire care team?
Doctors need to rethink referrals.
“Improving Care Coordination in the Specialty Referral Process Between Primary and Specialty Care,” Caroline Y. Lin, North Carolina Medical Journal, Vol 73, No. 1.
Doctors take risks with insecure texting.
“TXT@WORK: Pediatric Hospitalists and Text Messaging,” Stephanie Kuhlmann, DO, FAAP, Carolyn R. Ahlers-Schmidt, PhD, and Erik Steinberger,
BS University of Kansas School of Medicine—Wichita, Kansas, 2014.
Can you afford to put your patients’ protected health information in jeopardy?
SMS and PHI don’t mix.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “Combined Regulation Text of All Rules,” March 2013.
Providers are planning a mobile future.
3rd Annual HIMSS Analytics Mobile Survey, February 2014.
Smartphones build physician engagement.When you’re ready to get your physicians connected:
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Read our white paper:Physician communication: 3 key elements to secure texting.
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