Many health systems have recently implemented virtual nursing as a strategy to address workforce challenges and support bedside caregivers. However, too often, these pilot programs have struggled to achieve scale. What are the strategic, technical, operational and financial constraints limiting success? How are leading health systems overcoming those challenges and what are the benefits they are achieving? How are CIOs and CDOs gaining executive-level support to approach virtual nursing as the tip of the spear for a more transformational journey to create smart hospitals and empower smart care teams? How should healthcare decision-makers be thinking about how emerging technologies like smart sensors, AI, ambient monitoring and spatial computing can transform care delivery and hospital operations?

Over time legacy first-generation digital health companies have developed products that address specific, manual single-point solutions, such as fall detection, hand hygiene compliance tracking or virtual sitting. Unfortunately, these individual point solutions, in the aggregate, are further fragmenting already disparate caregiver and patient experience, which has compounded clinician burnout and impaired productivity. Add to this, the clinical burden of EMR data entry required of clinicians, disparate operational and clinical management systems, lack of real-time awareness of staff and conditions inside our facilities, and expanding workforce shortages are making current manual care models unsustainable. The healthcare industry needs a truly transformative technology to help alleviate these pressures and restore clinicians’ ability to spend more time with patients. By embracing the integration of purpose-built AI-enabled ambient sensors, we open up new opportunities for optimized patient care, streamlined operations, and data-driven decision-making, better coordinating our most valuable clinical talent and infrastructure. Our homes, cars and phones are all ambiently aware and smart…isn’t it time for our healthcare facilities to be even smarter?

Speakers:

Bruce Brandes

Steve Lieber