ADVANCED HEALTHCARE: Innovation of Care through Text Messaging

Keeping an eye on something is not an easy job, Patients must be monitored from time to time, from the time he/she was admitted to the time of doctor’s dismissal. Imagine that hospital personnel daily task, they must prioritize healthcare to their daily basis and must do not just for one but for hundreds of patients.

As you can observe that neither treating sickness nor body operation are the difficult things to do but is to give a proper care for the success of full healing.

After a certain operation or during hospitalize caused by sickness, patients are facing big risks for a complication that can be worse if not proper care had been served. Such as a depressed breathing rate that can lead to cardiac arrest caused by over-sedation or an adverse reaction to narcotics pain medications. Patients can show signs of deterioration-known in medical terms as “decompensation” – as many as 6 – 8 hours ahead of a cardiac or respiratory arrest, Study shows.

But such signs aren’t always picked up or acted upon hospital staff. Patient on general medical and surgical rooms are not always monitored 24/7 unlike to those patients who are in Intensive Care Units. (ICU) that hooked up with multiple machines that monitors.

Nowadays everything can rely on using technology from enhancing lifestyles to improved communication. It makes life easier it help us to communicate simpler to address important information and there is no excuse for your profession not to use such technology to save lives.

Encouraging someone to be more proactive with their health, to take better control of it is good practice, but it also falls short at a certain point.

A recent study shows that improve communication through text messaging inside the hospital premises makes patients shorter hospital stays and a lower rate of “code blue” events (hospital lingo for a patient in immediate need of resuscitation or emergency medical attention), compared with units without the technology.

But transferring sensitive information requires security that can be trusted that protects not only the patients but the whole Hospital crew as well.

Healthcare providers are utilizing technology to help make it easier for patients to comply, and for them to understand what they need to do and when to do it.

It’s not a complicated process either and it also doesn’t cover into any potentially dangerous territory. Instead the process involves healthcare providers sending simple text messages to Hospital crew.

The messages themselves are automated and programmed to arrive at certain times.

Their job is to remind people of what they need to do. They can send messages in real-time updates, meetings, share photos and work together to provide patients the most comprehensive care possible.

It’s simple, straightforward and also imbued with a singular purpose.

They communicate simply, and their direct message is easy to understand and impossible to ignore.

They are by no means guaranteed to improve communication between Hospital crews to particular patients, but to this point, they have managed to deliver satisfactory results.

Text messages also have other common sense applications within the patient-healthcare provider dynamic that extend beyond being able to act as reliable reminders for things that need to be done outside of the hospital setting.

The role of texting inside the healthcare industry is not likely to ever be truly enormous, but it can be even more impactful.

The proper deployment of texting for the purposes of keeping someone healthy may not save a life on its own, but it may at least be able to help.