By Trupti Kamath , TMCnet Contributor
InfoLogix announced it has successfully launched a customized HealthTrax mobility solution for University Health System’s 604-bed acute care hospital and 20 ambulatory clinics in San Antonio, Texas.
University Health System turned to InfoLogix, a leading technology provider of enterprise mobility solutions for the healthcare and commercial industries, to help identify new ways to increase efficiencies, improve patient safety, and decrease costs. To help University Health System address operational challenges, InfoLogix designed a real-time, interactive, web-based solution based on the hospital’s unique technology and workflow requirements.
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“InfoLogix helped us achieve dramatic new operating efficiencies which have improved employee morale and enabled us to provide better care to our patients. By freeing our clinicians from the tedious data-collection tasks they used to perform on a daily basis, they’re significantly more productive,” said Bill Phillips, VP and CIO of University Health System said. “In addition, as a result of the automated reports we can now generate from HealthTrax, our administrators have valuable information at their fingertips which can help them meet our rigorous regulatory requirements and make better, more informed operational decisions.”
According to David Gulian, president and CEO of InfoLogix, innovative mobile technologies like HealthTrax solution are a key ingredient in improving hospital operations and decreasing healthcare delivery costs.
“InfoLogix is uniquely positioned to help hospitals throughout North America transform their operations, with over 90 clinical practitioners on staff to help in workflow process improvements,” said Gulian. “By combining technology and clinical expertise, we bring a unique perspective to help hospitals address their day-to-day challenges in this challenging healthcare environment.”
University Health System worked with InfoLogix to automate key aspects of its clinical operations. Specifically, they sought to eliminate the need for medical staff from nursing and pharmacy to manually capture sensitive temperature data for refrigerated medications in both its inpatient and ambulatory facilities.
The hospital’s traditional data collection process relied exclusively upon hospital staff to record refrigerator temperatures, as often as every hour, to ensure highly-fragile medications were stored at safe temperatures. This cumbersome process was not only subject to human error, but also minimized the amount of quality time nurses and pharmacy staff could spend with patients.
In addition, as part of the hospital’s ongoing focus on increasing operational efficiencies, University Health System wanted to decrease the amount of time its busy clinicians spent tracking down transient medical assets such as infusion pumps for patients.
The HealthTrax mobility solution draws upon Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies to collect and analyze real-time information, alleviating the need for clinicians to manually perform tedious data-collection and tracking tasks. Through a network of tiny RFID transmitter tags, HealthTrax makes real-time information continuously available at the enterprise-level.
In another development, Samsung (News – Alert) Telecommunications America, a mobile phone provider, and InfoLogix, have announced their plans to collaborate on delivering mobile managed services to customers throughout North America.
Trupti Kamath is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Marisa Torrieri
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