Healthcare grade televisions and on-demand interactive patient education solutions provider TeleHealth Services has
extended a partnership with Alegent Health.
Encouraged by the success of their previous partnership both companies have decided to work together in future. TeleHealth Services will be Alegent’s interactive patient education and entertainment partner in the health system's unprecedented “Generation Patient” enhancement initiative.
Alegent Health is a large not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system in Nebraska and southwestern Iowa with 10 hospitals, more than 100 sites of service, over 1,300 physicians on its medical staff and 9,000 employees.
This not-for-profit wanted to provide a high quality of service and the best patient experience, and thus decided to pour a very significant amount of money in order to expand and enhance its five Omaha metropolitan hospitals.
Those hundreds of millions of dollars were used to erect buildings, technology and quality, which allows Alegent to care for the needs of its community well into the future.
Advanced Nurse Specialist for Alegent Health's System Nursing Department, Beth Gibbs noted TeleHealth Services as a true partner that helped the company in its efforts to build for the future.
TeleHealth provides Alegent’s patients and staff with healthcare televisions, its TIGR interactive patient education systems, and on-demand access to condition-specific education at the bedside.
Gibbs said that all this ensures that both the patient and the family are hearing the same instructions, and this significantly contributes in the quick recovery.
Under the extended agreement, TeleHealth Services will implement its TIGR interactive education and entertainment solution in six Alegent Health facilities. It will also upgrade all patient rooms and guest areas with state-of-the-art healthcare and commercial grade LCD televisions, Curbell GenIV direct access pillow speakers and Lucasey mounts.
Duane Carbullido, operations director for Information Technology Services at Alegent Health said that they want their hospitals to offer the best clinical care and deliver optimal patient experience.
The company believes the investment in these patient-centered technology solutions will be crucial in helping them accomplish those goals.
“In 2010, we plan on continuing our investment in the wellness of our communities and to ensure patient satisfaction and a higher level of medical care,” said Carbullido. “This is a very large, serious undertaking and we felt it was only right to partner with a provider who could give us the full turnkey solution. To us, TeleHealth Services is the one-stop technology solutions integrator we were looking for. We are looking forward to the expansion of the TIGR product in our facilities, as well as the patient's healthcare grade HD televisions.”
Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for HealthTechZone. To read more of Anuradha’s article, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
Kelly McGuire
