Improve patient care with digital workplace solutions

Caregivers are under more pressure than ever to perform their jobs. Instead of being at the mercy of technology, caregivers need technology to help them do their job. To spend more time with their patients. To deliver quality care. To take care of themselves as well.

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) has designed the Nurse Digital Workplace to effectively support the nurses’ meaningful work with mobile technology while alleviating their pain points. 

Bringing mobile technology to the point of care

As each hospital setting is different, and as your critical nurse pain points and your digital transformation journey are unique, we offer a set of best practices combined with consultancy services to guide you in creating a Digital Workspace that works for you.

Our Nurse Digital Workplace is based around open and compliant solutions that integrate with your existing systems, such as nurse call, EHR/HIS, patient terminals, room control, etc. And that's where the value is: communication, collaboration, notification and location-based services become available within nurses’ mobile apps, in the ward and at the patient's bedside.

How can technology improve care?

Clinical nurses work in an environment that is high stress by nature. The following work-related pain points can directly impact their health and the quality of patient care:

• Walking time: average of 1 to 1.5h per shift
• Searching time: average of 1h per shift just for assets without the time to reach a person
• Alarm fatigue: created by an increased number of notifications while 70-90% of alarms are false or non-relevant
• Insecurity: average of 20% reported physical assaults

To relieve their nurses from overwork and mitigate the risk of burnout (sometimes between 20 to 30% burn out rate), hospitals must create efficiencies. Digital technology can help reduce the burden on nurses and thus improve patient care.

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