The AirStrip Solutions
AirStrip Technologies is a medical software development company focused on enabling mobility in healthcare. We have built and deployed an FDA-cleared platform which allows patient information - including waveforms and other critical data from EMRs, bedside monitors and devices, pharmacy, lab, and other clinical information systems - to be securely and natively accessed by physicians and nurses on their smart phones or tablets…anytime, and anywhere.
Our current applications include (active links below to brief, relevant videos which you may find of interest):
- AirStrip OB – mobilizes maternal/fetal waveforms (CTGs), annotations, exam status, medications, lab values, logistical information, and progress notes to improve communication during labor and delivery
- AirStrip CARDIOLOGY – digitizes and mobilizes 12- and 15- lead waveforms and measurements to support enhanced analytics, easier visual interpretation, and serial presentation of current and historic tracings
- AirStrip PATIENT MONITORING – enterprise-wide solution delivers waveforms (cardiac, SPO2, ventilator, arterial line, etc.), vital signs, medications, I&O, lab results, allergy lists, and EMR data for patients in areas such as ICU, CCU, PACU, OR, ED, Telemetry, etc.
With hundreds of hospitals using AirStrip today, we have an experienced point of view on how to achieve "meaningful mobility" in healthcare. Meaningful mobility is defined as native mobile technology that improves clinical decision making at the point of care through data transformation and the secure, real time, and ubiquitous delivery of visually compelling intelligence by incorporating evidence-based medicine and knowledge-based prompts.
Mobile Access vs. Remote Access
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Consideration
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Mobile Access
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Remote Access
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| Accessibility |
• Single, personal mobile device
• Anytime, anywhere cellular/Wi-Fi |
• PC, Laptop, or Workstation-Based, even if it’s a workstation on wheels. |
| Interface |
• Native Application - Designed to run in computer environment (machine language and OS) being referenced
• (i.e.: Android, iPhone, Blackberry, etc.) |
• Citrix or web access to desktop applications |
| Data Transformation |
• Improves clinical decision making at the point of care through visual data transformation and interactivity
• Adds meaning with graphing, trending, colors, visuals cues, etc. |
• Looks and functions like the desktop electronic health record (EHR).
• Presents data in the same fashion as the computer program being accessed. |
| Added Value |
• Works with clinician workflow; brings the data to them in meaningful ways.
• Incorporates evidence based medicine and knowledge-based prompting. |
• Supports office- or home-based access by providers via computer. |
| Meaningful Use |
• Physician usage quickly ramps up to hours per physician per month and is sustained over time. |
• Usage stats may reveal an initial spike but not sustained and drops off after a few weeks or months.
• Physicians will seldom help organizations achieve data access/sharing objectives when they have to go to the data. |
Benefits of Mobile Access
- Strategic – to help achieve greater organizational goals and objectives such as core measures, meaningful use, physician alignment, the drive toward becoming an accountable care organization, etc…
- Clinical – improvements or gains in quality, structure, and process of care delivery capabilities and better patient outcomes
- Financial – a cascade of benefits caused by increased workflow efficiency and improved communication, such as increasing revenue, minimizing waste, mitigating risk, etc…
As your organization is formulating your enterprise mobility strategy, including consideration of how AirStrip's meaningful mobility complements the mobility direction of your EMR partner, please let us help you. There are important "quick wins" to engage your physicians to embrace their role in your achievement of meaningful use.
We have a vast array of experiences and resources to clarify the opportunity represented by applying the mobility revolution to address the most significant challenges and opportunities of transforming healthcare.