For nursing homes and senior living communities, technology has fueled valuable advancements in resident/patient monitoring and safety, and made recording patient information for electronic health records more efficient.
The technology used by one healthcare system is a good example for how nursing home and senior living operators similarly can leverage a cloud platform to transfer monitoring devices into its EHRs.
Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare takes data collected from monitoring devices and transfers it securely through a cloud platform to automatically populate electronic patient records. Piedmont worked with patient monitoring solution Telemetrix and Remote Care Partners virtual care platform. Data from the devices are integrated into Piedmont’s Epic system, so providers didn’t have to switch back and forth between patient monitoring system data and EHRs as they usually do.
Piedmont’s technology (the integration of data into its Epic system described above) is much faster, lasting around two minutes, according to the company, and gives clinicians more timely and relevant patient data.
“Healthcare practices are flooded with data,” said Gregg Smith, CEO of Remote Care Partners, in a statement. “The objective of this program is to make continuous care more accessible for healthcare providers and patients alike.”
According to the company, this process improves short-term quality of care as well as long-term patient outcomes because it reduces inconsistencies between results taken at home versus at the medical office and gives digital reminders for patients to take their medications.
