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Mobile Mix: Telehealth Market is Fighting Fit
MOBILE WORLD LIVE – Since April, the FCC has been doling out grants to give critical (COVID-19) programs a boost. One grant recipient, Mount Sinai’s Dr. Eyal Shemesh explains that the money will help fill a key gap in the chain of care, ensuring patients have the technology necessary to take advantage of telehealth programs. Mount Sinai will provide pediatric patients with tablets from a company called PadInMotion which will come preloaded with a virtual care app called RealTime Clinic.
The Catch-22 of Social Distancing Among the Elderly
THE ALLURE GROUP – Thankfully, every resident at The Allure Group’s facilities already has access to a Samsung tablet at their bedside installed with PadInMotion technology. While residents tended to use them for entertainment of stress relief before the pandemic, they now use them to conduct audio or video chats with their loved ones. The technology has been instrumental in helping seniors stay connected during these difficult times.
Mount Sinai Receives FCC Grant for Telehealth Medicine to Care for Pediatric Patients
MOUNT SINAI – The grant will enable Mount Sinai to provide more than 700 devices to children and their families who require telehealth monitoring and care, on a rotating basis. This will be facilitated through partnerships with PadInMotion, the provider of the devices, and RealTime Clinic, which will provide an app-based integrated option for care.
PadInMotion Aims to Increase Digital Connections as Reduced Hospital Visits Have Led to Isolation
ROI-NJ – “Perhaps the tablet’s most valuable application is that it can be the window to the world for these patients. For many, the last time these patients are able to see family members was when they loaded them into the ambulance. These are heartbreaking conditions.” – Nir Altman, PadInMotion CEO
Newark Tech Startups Become Crucial Tools For Hospitals During Coronavirus Pandemic
DREAMIT – PadInMotion is operating in coronavirus isolation rooms across New York City, where it is enabling multidisciplinary clinical teams to maintain a connection with patients in isolation, allows for language translation, connection to concerned loved ones who might otherwise be cut off from communication, empowers the patients to give feedback and make requests, and can help with mental wellness – an obvious concern for those placed in isolation.
Dreamit Startups on the Front Lines of COVID-19
DREAMIT – PadInMotion utilizes tablets to enable patients to communicate with staff, clinicians, and family from a distance. The COVID-19 specific configuration incorporates telemedicine, broadcast messaging, translation services, patient education, along with a range of entertainment and mental wellness options. PadInMotion is HIPAA compliant, can be live onsite in under 24 hours.
Innovation in the Face of Coronavirus
NEWARK VENTURE PARTNERS – Under normal circumstances, PadInMotion works with over 30 health systems to provide a turnkey tablet platform – complete with hardware, HIPAA-compliant software, a customized user experience, and analytics – that enables them to educate patients about their wellness plan and improve the patient experience. The solution is now being deployed to manage coronavirus isolation rooms, as well as the increased number of ER walk-ins at major hospitals.
Tablet Technology Creating Educated Patients at Discharge
THE WELLNESS NETWORK – “The tablet is straightforward and user friendly. Our patients are normally in their sixties, seventies, or eighties, so they need an easy platform. The tablets are very well received by staff and patients alike. It’s very rare that we get feedback that a patient can’t figure out how to use the tablet, even if it’s their first time.” – COI Operations Manager
St. Luke’s Cardiac Patients Adopt Tablet-Based Education Solution
THE WELLNESS NETWORK – (T)he nursing staff had been using late-model televisions and VHS tape to help educate patients. “We would wheel these big TVs into the rooms and pop a tape in.” According to metrics, . . . the tablets experienced more than a thousand interactions, over the 90-day pilot period. (S)taff members remark(ed,) it was “great for patient education,” “easy to use,” and worked for “patients with a low reading level.” (T)he average patient rat(ed) the tablet experience as a 9 on a scale of 1-10.
Challenges in the inpatient education of new onset type 1 DM patients: Can tablet technology be the answer?
PEDIATRIC DIABETES JOURNAL –Preliminary data from researchers at Hackensack University Medical Center and Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine has shown that the use of tablet technology in the education of Type 1 DM patients has led to in better HbA1c improvement, less hypoglycemia and less phone calls to office.
6 Ways to Help Asthma and COPD Patients Follow Their Treatment Program
FLORENCE HEALTH – “Adhering to treatment can improve lung function and prevent exacerbation and trips to the hospital,” says Jenna Schulner, PA at the Mount Sinai Respiratory Institute in New York. “We need to show patients how to use the equipment, not just tell them.” (She) teach(es) patients how to use an inhaler and then ask(s) patients to teach back. (The) office also uses PadInMotion, which provides patients with how-to videos they can consult anytime.
Samsung Spotlights New Digital Health Solutions at HIMSS 2019
SAMSUNG NEWSROOM – In clinical settings, it’s critical that new technologies not only improve efficiencies while ensuring HIPAA compliance, but also seamlessly integrate into existing workflows and legacy systems. Samsung’s partners are leveraging Samsung technology to do this very thing (including) PadInMotion (and others) which aid clinicians in managing a range of work—from medical training and patient assessments, to internal communications and patient information management.
