Nurses and clinicians at the Nebraska Medical Center will soon be using iPhones to improve their communication and increase efficiency, according Apple.
Apple's Voalt� One app solution will enable nurses and clinicians at the teaching hospital to send and receive presence-based text messages and make high-definition voice calls across the hospital Voice over Internet Protocol system on one device, providing faster response to patients. The hospital-wide installation will integrate hundreds of iPhones to the hospital's WiFi system thus leveraging existing infrastructure for optimal communication.
The Nebraska Medical Center is the first academic-based medical center in the country to implement the Voalt� solution.
Voalt�, an application that consolidates voice, alarm and text on the versatile iPhone platform, was selected by the Medical Center after a year-long mobile technology review and assessment of legacy handsets and voice badges.
"We're thankful the Nebraska Medical Center selected Voalt� after a rigorous selection process," says Trey Lauderdale, vice president of innovation at Voalt�. "Partnerships of this sort continue to validate our commitment to increasing nursing excellence and patient safety."
According to Lauderdale, many of our nation's nurses are still using archaic tools such as pagers or bulky legacy VoIP phones that weren't designed for everyday use, so they spend much of their time dealing with, finding or coordinating information.
"As the primary teaching hospital for the University of Nebraska Medical Center, we are committed to focusing on quality improvement," says Lianne Stevens, CIO and vice president of information technology at the medical center.
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