12
How can physicians become engaged when they’re struggling to communicate with the rest of the care team?

Voalte - Rx for Doctor Disconnect

  • Upload
    voalte

  • View
    863

  • Download
    0

Embed Size (px)

DESCRIPTION

How can physicians become engaged when they're struggling to communicate with the rest of the care team? It all starts with smartphones.

Citation preview

Page 1: Voalte - Rx for Doctor Disconnect

How can physicians become engaged when they’re struggling to communicate

with the rest of the care team?

Page 2: Voalte - Rx for Doctor Disconnect

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.

Page 3: Voalte - Rx for Doctor Disconnect

Nurses hunt down doctors.

Page 4: Voalte - Rx for Doctor Disconnect

Pager use is declining.

“Where pagers haven’t gone extinct yet,” Verne Kopytoff, CNN Money, July 16, 2013.

Page 5: Voalte - Rx for Doctor Disconnect

Are your physicians sharing information with the entire care team?

Page 6: Voalte - Rx for Doctor Disconnect

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.

Page 7: Voalte - Rx for Doctor Disconnect

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.

Page 8: Voalte - Rx for Doctor Disconnect

Can you afford to put your patients’ protected health information in jeopardy?

Page 9: Voalte - Rx for Doctor Disconnect

SMS and PHI don’t mix.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “Combined Regulation Text of All Rules,” March 2013.

Page 10: Voalte - Rx for Doctor Disconnect

Providers are planning a mobile future.

3rd Annual HIMSS Analytics Mobile Survey, February 2014.

Page 11: Voalte - Rx for Doctor Disconnect

Smartphones build physician engagement.When you’re ready to get your physicians connected:

 Visit voalte.com

Read our white paper:Physician communication: 3 key elements to secure texting.

Page 12: Voalte - Rx for Doctor Disconnect

1.877.VOALTE1 | voalte.com