Provide your Residents with Permanent Identification and tools for Family to manage their Medical History in a Personal Health Record.
Empowering patients and engaging families to take active participation in the care process is both rewarding and challenging. For our inpatients with complicated medical histories and chronic diseases, providing tools to help families track and manage the health history, medications, and important papers such as power of attorney, living will, and DNR will help increase family satisfaction and attract new residents. For residents with an active life style, equipping them with the ability to communicate their medical history to caregivers when they are out in the community is vital to receive quality care. During an injury or episode of illness, many patients become confused or are unable to communicate with an EMT or Physician.
In one situation, a 70 year old female nursing home resident receives support from two extended family members, a brother and a niece, who both act as healthcare proxies. Previously, the family had difficulty keeping up with the frequent changes to her medications, conditions and discharge summaries as she transitioned in and out of the hospital. Also, transitioning information when one member of the family was away on business or vacation was a challenge. Now that the patient is enrolled in I-DENTI-FIED, the transition of her health information between family members during a handoff of responsibility is completed in mere minutes, as opposed to the one hour previously spent. This family has chosen to take an active role in the care of their loved one, and these new tools give them more control and convenient access than they ever thought possible.
Marketing Value
- Engage Family Members to participate in care process
- Tools help them manage Health and Medication
- History, Power of Attorney, Living Will, DNR, etc.
- Increase family satisfaction and attract new residents
Clinical Value
- Non-invasive method of Identity Verification without locking wristbands or removable pendants
- Access to Critical Medical Information by emergency responders in the event of mass evacuation
- Electronic transmission of Patient Medical History for hospital transfer during medical emergency
- Simplify Return of Lost & Found Dentures
VALUE FOR ASSISTED LIVING
Clinical Value
- Provide access to Critical Medical Information by emergency responders in the event of medical emergency while patients are out in the community
- Safety, Security and Peace of Mind at affordable price
- Reduce competition from other living centers
