The best healthcare, provided at the bedside or virtually, is supported with the best data. Clinically validated data points captured on each patient’s longitudinal care record can contribute to delivering the right care, at the right time, with the best information available. Typically, data captured by or entered into EHRs is where clinical, research, compliance, and quality personnel source information to make critical decisions on care delivery, care standards, performance improvements, & innovation. The industry faces the challenge that EHRs and other systems do not capture, integrate, and store second-by-second monitoring data to supplement key information and analytics.
In this article, explore how leveraging persisted patient monitoring data across technologies provides the keys to success in supporting hospital system strategies.
Leveraging Data
Hospital systems struggle with siloed technology at the bedside, across CTM stations, and between departments with regard to clinical documentation improvement (CDI). Separate solutions equal separate data sets. Those separate data sets inhibit hospital system-wide collaboration to support strategic objectives, enhance cost savings, and improve the quality of care. Recently, a trend has developed where systems are seeking a centralized solution that crosses all tech streams and manufacturers to support virtual care. Why not consider a solution that consolidates the disparate data you have, maximizing your capacity for monitoring many beds, while minimizing the amount of devices and automating workflows to improve clinical outcomes?
Support System Strategies
Strategically speaking, hospital systems face the challenge that people executing different workflows have different data needs. It becomes difficult to align goals on patient flow, billing and denials, legal matters, and cohort-specific algorithm development when everyone has separate, different data. Revenue cycle, quality, compliance, and research teams have the opportunity to identify and analyze data that supports those needs, all within the same platform. There is a solution that provides the data necessary to combat the average of ~20% of billing denials by supporting claims with improved, accessible documentation. That same clinical platform can validate workflows and paint a clear picture from bedside to C-suite about the exact level of care administered by reducing dependency on human input for care justifications.
Of all the data streams important in executing hospital strategy, employee retention and patient quality of care are paramount. One solution can help reduce the cognitive load on nurses and streamline training, aiming to help systems stem the flow of nursing turnover. Sickbay supports scalable virtual care - from nursing stations to remote command centers - with customized patient lists viewable from anywhere. Imagine the impact of more data in one location, instead of exorbitant technology costs associated with incremental Remote Nursing Stations.
Standardizing is the Solution
It’s easy to look at patient monitoring and say “We already have that.” What you don’t have is an all-in-one approach to system-wide collaboration, automation, and scalability.
Sickbay, a solution that has evolved over 10 years in the market, is a vendor-neutral medical device integration (MDI) that integrates device data for thousands of beds, across dozens of devices, and across manufacturers. Sickbay normalizes and permanently stores monitoring data across devices, the EHR, and disparate technologies (e.g.: camera-enabled tech) in a highly compressed, time-synchronized, and high-performance database.
Benefits of Sickbay as a single, standardized clinical platform include:
Cost Effective: Monitor patients from anywhere, on any device, and scale virtual command centers quickly. Utilize monitoring data to support revenue cycle management (RCM) & clinical documentation improvement (CDI) processes to efficiently collect clinical documentation for billing & respond to denials.
Scalable: Scale using only 175mb data storage per patient per day, aggregating your data in Sickbay’s vendor-neutral platform. Easily support clinical workflows & services with a few clicks instead of costly devices & IT implementation hours.
Streamline: Automate clinical workflows to reduce manual tasks such as strip export & ECG waveform labeling. View up to 80 patients within a single view, support customized patient risk stratification and staffing allocation improvements.
Improve Care: Collaborate on care with teams across the health system with a common set of data &built-in analytics tools in Sickbay. Analyze aggregated data from one second to one year & close the loop from bedside care delivery to performing clinical research with AI powered models.
Delivering the right care, at the right time, with the right data can mean consolidating data and streamlining processes through one clinical platform, instead of more devices, more training, and more costs. When it comes to standardizing and innovating in patient monitoring, less is more. One solution, infinite outcomes. Visit www.sickbay.com or email info@sickbay.com for more information or to schedule a consultation with our team.