MPoC Story

Introduction

Healthcare resources are constantly on the move but the information for high quality patient care is not so easily available. Mobile Point of Care Solutions provide immediate information at the place of care or decision making. Based on Intel's Team of Ethnographers Studies several usage models were identified for Mobile Point of Care which included the need for a walk around mobile platform which resulted in the design of the Intel mobile clinical assistant reference platform, further a wheel around platform for computers on wheels (COWS) for dispensing as an example, the ward to "office and dock" for clinicians requiring a key board.

Mobile Point of Care Solutions helps address the need for

• Secure information flow across the hospital and enable improvements in areas such as patient safety
• Enables optimisation of workflows drive efficiency such as reduction in Patient Waiting times and ALS
• Collaboration between Staff for faster decision turnaround
• Can help improve Quality of Care, Patient & Staff satisfaction

Many Healthcare Organisations around the world are realising the benefits of Mobile Point of Care Solutions. You will see below just some of the examples in terms The in terms of improvement gains at Healthcare Providers around the world. Also see Intel mobile clinical assistant case studies.

Workflow Optimization: What If?...

• 18 minutes/day savings per clinician in faster decisions, access to resources (1)
• 6 months break-even point-to-point wireless (1)
• 12 months break-even point-to-multi-point wireless (1)
• Happy CEO (1)
• Happy staff (1,2,3)
• 30% reduction in medication errors (2)
• Happy patients (3)
• 10% higher patient throughput, bed utilization (3)
• 85% faster to transact Admission, Discharge and Transfer changes (3)
• 90% decreased in query times (4)
• Higher productivity, and faster, more-informed decision-making (4)
• Reduced paper handling and administrative overhead (4)
• Improved patient care (4)
• Up to 50% reduction in wait time (ER, Admission, Transport) (5)
• 6x faster Bed turnaround (5)
• 25% reduction of bed cleaning staff per shift (5)
• Increase utilization of movable assets (from average 35-50% utilization) (5)
• 46% reduction in admissions, 36% reduction in ER visits (6)
• Bill more, collect more and faster (7)
• Treat 73% more patients per admin FTE (7)
• Treat 7% more patients per clinical FTE staff(7)
• $5M increase revenue in year 1
• Increase patient satisfaction

(1) Wireless at Alfred Hospital, Australia
(2) Wireless at El-Camino Hospital, California
(3) RFID at St. Vincent's Hospital, Alabama
(4) EMR, wireless at Clalit Health Services, Israel
(5) St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital Houston, Texas
(6) Veterans Administration, U.S.
(7) Stephen P. Pollak, PhD Creative Intelligence International Limited

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