A smartphone program is being launched by Sentara Health to help facilitate improved medical care. Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center in Woodbridge is one of 11 hospitals in the Sentara system that will receive these smartphones.
Sentara said these smartphones will increase the speed of admission to the emergency department, accelerate the average response time of nurses, and reduce the length of stay in the hospital. Sentara also expects that there will be an improved turnaround time for radiology scans to lesion the ambient noise from devices.
Brochure printing can be used throughout patient rooms and elsewhere in a hospital to help explain such new programs, how to use the associated devices, and their benefits.
The smartphones will be secure and compliant with HIPAA regulations to protect patient health information. They will not have access to social media, cellular services, the app store, and games. Data will be stored on the smartphones themselves and will no longer be useful once they leave the hospital.
Chief nursing officer at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, Christy Grabus, said that the phone improves patient safety and workflow. Grabus added that this helps the hospital to prioritize and spend more time with patients and it will eliminate the multiple devices that clinicians use daily in order to do their jobs.
