Universal Health Services runs more than 15,000 tests per day to ensure that patient-critical applications and records are available for physicians and clinicians. Universal Health Services is one of the 10 largest for-profit health systems in the United States, and it relies heavily on Cerner to deliver EHR application services to healthcare professionals all across the country.
Healthcare organizations strive to enhance patient experience, ensuring that patients receive proper treatment at the right time, every time. However, due to antiquated communication tools, such as the pager, this goal is often difficult to achieve for some healthcare providers. Today’s healthcare facilities require an advanced pager replacement solution, integrating with intelligent scheduling systems and EMR solutions for better patient outcomes.
Whilst Citrix Synergy 2019 was in full-flow in Atlanta, GA, Goliath Technologies were also keeping busy with the 11.7.8 release of Goliath Performance Monitor, which adds several features that were in demand by many customers. I’ve had the chance to review this latest release, and wanted to touch on some of the features that are new to version 11.7.8, as well as cover ground on some of the features and capabilities already existing in the product today.
The below screen shots were provided by a large non-profit healthcare organization that includes 4 acute care hospitals, over 20 clinics and 5,000 Citrix users. The Healthcare IT team received reports from clinicians about slow logon times. This document describes how the Citrix engineer used Goliath Performance Monitor to pinpoint and troubleshoot the “Citrix is Slow” complaint and implement a fix action that permanently resolved the issue while reducing logon times by more than 80%.
OnPage has always been dedicated to providing powerful features, ensuring that healthcare practitioners streamline their communications, operations and workflows. Today, OnPage is taking another step forward with its latest release, offering new capabilities and features built for today’s healthcare organizations. I’ll now highlight some on the latest and greatest additions to OnPage’s clinical communications and pager replacement platform.
The below screen shots were provided by a large non-profit healthcare organization that includes 4 acute care hospitals, over 20 clinics and 5,000 Citrix users.
As a change agent in a healthcare organization, it’s likely that you’re eager to give your antiquated paging system the boots and to replace it with a more updated, efficient, HIPAA-compliant clinical communications platform. However, convincing the rest of the organization isn’t always easy. It’s normal to get resistance from your care team whenever you introduce new processes or technologies.
National Health Service’s (NHS) recent announcement on the ban of the pager represents great news for U.K. healthcare organizations and their practitioners. The ban not only represents a transformative move, it also showcases pagers’ lackluster performance in providing secure, clinical communications. Now that pagers are making their way out of U.K.
Another HIMSS show is in the books and the impact this year was tremendous, especially in terms of discussions and announcements. Presentation topics varied from artificial intelligence to supply chain management to telemedicine and beyond, but interoperability and cybersecurity were either main themes or cropped up in discussions throughout the event.
