12-09-13 | Blog Post
Breakout Session 11-12 Monday: The Role of Patient Privacy & Security Innovations
Kenneth A. Kleinberg, Managing Director, Research & Insights
Ed Ricks (Beauford Memorial Hospital)
There’s always a question of the tipping point, and with EMR, we’ve reached this point. Mobile health is transitioning from an optional thing to integrated and mandatory. With new technologies, the applications and the promise lead, and the management lags, and I think in this space it’s true.
5 categories of mobile health use:
If you think about the kinds of technologies that we expected but it’s taken a very long time (like speech technology), there are other areas of tech that have crept up (like location). The idea that tech could tell you the closest ER, and indoor maps based on the GPS can help with many experiential challenges.
You have to match these tremendous mobility changes within the context of security and manageability.
Layers of Mobile Security:
You can have all these layers of security, but if one goes wrong, it can make the whole thing crumble.
What’s in your mobility Toolbox?
Biggest Issues with Mobile Medical Devices
Medical devices are increasing mobile, connected, software-enabled, and consumer-operated, which makes them much more vulnerable to technical problems, malware problems, integration challenges, and manageability, and security.
“wicked Problems” a term referring to when requirements are incomplete, contradictory, or changing; symptoms are difficult to recognize: problems are interdependent.
Ed Ricks
R UR DOCS TXTING?
One business challenge we’ve solved with mobile: Clinicians and physicians texting.
Top objectives for investing in Clinical mobility
58% Improving quality of care
50% Increasing staff efficiency/ productivity
The average discharge is delayed 100 min. due to the inability to communicate effectively across workers. Helping technology enable us to communicate better.
72% of hospitals have a no-texting policy
83% of physicians have a smartphone
42% text from their devices
BYOD demands caused concerns about unsecured texting
FINDING SOLUTIONS:
Reputable brand, existing customer
HIPAA Compliant (end-to-end encryption, auditing, message confirmations)
100% reliable
So, they created a secure texting application, and tried it.
Use case: Cardiology
Patient comes into ED, activated Cath lab, Alert the STEMI team to prep for cardiologist
Use Case: Radiology
Alert attending physicians that report is available, sending texts and pictures, alert radiologist that patient is ready.
Use Case: Anesthesiology
Current medications, day of surgery labs, current EKG picture, updates for case readiness- patient throughput.
Use Case: Hospitalists
Communicate with referring providers & hospitalist team members, see whether recipients opened the messages, alert charge nurse prior to arrival on unit.
People will do the right thing if we make it easy enough for them.
Instead of saying you can’t do something, we found a way to allow them to text securely. It’s about connecting policy and technology.
“Finally doing something for me, instead of to me”
I think the next wave is patient engagement through patient portals or applications.
