mHealth Intelligence July 1, 2019
Hospitals and health systems are now applying mHealth to the vital and often-sensitive process of keeping family members updated during a patient’s surgical procedure.
What once involved a series of phone calls – or a nurse and or/doctor sifting through a crowded waiting room looking for the right family members – can now be handled by an mHealth app. The connected health platform enables providers to send out alerts or updates at a moment’s notice, advising family members of the patient’s progress or asking them to call in.
“This cuts out a lot of the phone games,” says Courtney Schwartzkopf, Nurse Manager for Central Monitoring at HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in southern Illinois, which launched its mHealth messaging service in...
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