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Apple's iPhone: A game changer for care providers?
A number of hospitals began to take a look at how they could better integrate Apple's iPhone into their overall clinical workflow once it became clear that a majority of physicians (64 percent) now use smartphones (and a growing number of them favor iPhones.) One of the first hospitals to announce its infatuation with the iPhone was Pennsylvania-based Doylestown Hospital, which was the first to be profiled on Apple's corporate site for equipping its care workers with iPhones. The hospital connected the iPhones to its Meditech EMR system. Houston-based Memorial Hermann care facilities followed as a second hospital profiled on Apple's site. Then, news broke that Apple was working directly with EMR vendor Epic Systems to integrate iPhones into Epic's EMR solution for a hospital at Stanford University. Rumor has it that the iPhone-EMR solution will roll out early next year and big care providers like Kaiser Permanente are already taking a look.
One start-up that has begun to capitalize on the iPhone's growing popularity among care providers is Voalte, a Florida-based startup the offers an iPhone-enabled voice, alarm, text service for nurses. The company piloted its application for nurses at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.
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Thanks for the mention about Voalte. We are seeing immediate results in responsiveness of point of care workers and improved patient satisfaction scores. Hospitals waste $4 million a year due to poor communication. Although we can't solve all their problems, we can deliver immediate results
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