Patient Care is brought to the Bedside TV

Cady Roberts - Homework #1

Link: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/press-release/optimum-lightpath-and-getwellnetwork-launch-interactive-patient-care-service

Description: Patient Care (IPC), a technology solution powered by Optimum Lightpath's fiber optic network, uses hospital bedside televisions to provide an interactive experience for patients and doctors. Patients can learn about their condition, connect with family and interact with caregivers using the television. With active participation from the patients and their families, it ultimately improves patient knowledge and safety, clinical care outcomes, staff responsiveness, bed turnover rates and workflow efficiencies for hospital staff. It works through on-demand access to a patient education video library and medications database, hospital stay and visitor information, movies and games, non-clinical service request menus, meal ordering, surveys and real-time feedback features, Internet and email access, music and more.

Use Case: Patient – Receive specialized hospital care to improve stay and decrease recover y time.
Automated prompts appear on the television monitor to invite each patient to learn more about his/her care, condition and safety. Hospitals are able to customize a patient's hospital experience based on particular data inputs or automatic triggers such as diagnostic or procedure codes.

Standards: No application-specific standards are explicitly mentioned, other than the technology is provided by a fiber optic network by Optimum.