A geofence is a perimeter set virtually, using the global positioning system (GPS) or radio frequency identification (RFID) to create operational boundaries. The software will trigger a predetermined response when a device enters the given perimeter or leaves it.
This technology can be applied across many different industries to improve performance and customer service. If you’re using a top geofencing app, you won’t be limited to one geofenced perimeter at a time. The application will likely use detailed maps that allow precision in geofencing several areas at a time. This means you can use the software to monitor activities over a large extent, even if they’re divided into different operations sections.
While the uses of geofencing, in general, are widely discussed, its uses in the healthcare sector are seldom covered. This technology could revolutionize the sector.
Here are some of the ways geofencing can benefit the healthcare industry:
It Helps Monitor Time Theft At Public And Private Hospitals
Many establishments, healthcare facilities included, lose between millions to billions of dollars to a system called buddy punching. This system is when a work colleague clocks in on behalf of an absent colleague. Though records show that all staff members were present at work, the establishments still remained understaffed.
A key difference between the healthcare sector and other industries is that it’s not merely money that stands to be lost due to this practice. If left unchecked, both lives and money that’s needed for improvements will continue to be lost.
Geofencing can help put the practice to an end when you tie a device to an employee. It will only clock in when employees enter a geofenced perimeter and clock out when they leave. That way, employees won’t be able to add any work hours to their wage bill that they didn’t spend on work-related activities.
In the same vein, the technology will help you remunerate your workers more accurately, as you can easily track their work hours.
Your patients should be at the heart of everything you do as an audiologist. These tips can help you to build and strengthen your relationships with your patients so they keep coming back and recommend you to their friends and family as well.
Smart Marketing
You can’t keep patients you don’t have, so make sure part of your budget is put into your marketing efforts. Create a brand that patients feel that they can rely on. Put some of your resources into a professionally made, SEO-optimised, customer-focused website that provides useful resources for your patients and prospective patients. Make it shareable across social media. Email marketing, direct mail, blogs, video tutorials, and all printed materials should all be designed for patients and consistent with your brand.
Impress Your Patients with Fabulous Customer Service
Everyone in your office should go above and beyond during every stage of the patient’s time with you. Patients should feel that you want to help and have a genuine concern during all phases of their visit. Staying up to date with the latest technology and developments and sharing them with your patients with the intent of improving their lives will make them feel more positively towards you. Skills in communicating with the hearing impaired are essential for your entire team too.
Good vision keeps you safe and connects you with your surroundings. Thanks to new technology, you can enhance your vision without risking health. Vision-enhancing technology isn’t just for people with eye problems; you can also use it to improve your overall eyesight. In this article, we’ve outlined new technologies for improving vision.
1. LASIK eye surgery
LASIK eye surgery is a laser refractive surgery meant to correct vision issues and can be an option to contact lenses or glasses. It’s done to reshape the cornea to correct blurred vision, which occurs due to light bending incorrectly and not precisely reaching the retina. LASIK surgery is ideal for people with nearsightedness or myopia, farsightedness or hyperopia, and astigmatism. The surgery isn’t an option if you’re below 18 years, nursing or pregnant, or on medication.
If you have eye problems like dry eyes and glaucoma, and other health concerns including lupus, diabetes, or rheumatoid arthritis, you should also avoid having LASIK surgery.
2. Intraocular lens
When you have a cataract, your lens becomes cloudy, necessitating a cataract surgery that replaces the clouded lens with an intraocular lens for improved vision. An intraocular lens is a small, artificial eye lens that replaces the natural eye lens removed during cataract surgery. The lens should be clear enough to bend the light rays that enter the eye, allowing you to see.
The intraocular lens has various focusing powers based on the patient’s eye length and cornea curve. They’re usually made of acrylic, silicone, and other plastic formations and coated to protect your eyes from harmful UV rays.
The pandemic has changed the medical field forever. While virtual medical visits were on the rise before the virus sent everyone into quarantine, they exploded once people were hesitant to leave their homes to visit their doctors in person. But, virtual doctor visits aren’t the only type of medical care that’s gone high-tech. Tele ICU has become a popular way to deliver care and control medical costs at the same time. The benefits of a virtual ICU are numerous, but these four are the top reasons given by hospitals for implementing one.
Addresses the Physician Shortage
As with most professions, there is a critical shortage of physicians to adequately staff hospitals, especially on night shifts and on weekends. A virtual ICU program allows multiple ICUs to be virtually staffed by a single ICU physician, who can perform all the administrative tasks and many of the diagnostic duties that an in-person ICU physician can do. Having an on-call staff of ICU professionals available immediately to consult with in-person staff reduces the need to hire multiple doctors for multiple shifts.
Hospitals and clinics constantly face new challenges that require time, money, and energy to figure out the best solutions. As the need for increasing the value and use cases for expanding technology in healthcare becomes more apparent, it’s time to consider the benefits of how your visitor management system works.
Visitor movements need to be known so that access to certain areas is appropriately restricted, but creating an efficient system for this that is also compliant with care laws can be difficult.
By connecting patient care plans to both visitor management and the access control system, it becomes possible for these building management systems to function together in a seamless and cost-effective way.
Responding to growing demand for clinically actionable, quantifiable data to both guide and demonstrate the efficacy of treatment decisions, BioMech Health, a division of BioMech Holdings, LLC, has launched BioMech Lab to arm clinicians with the ability to capture – in real-time – the relevant motion metrics necessary to rapidly evaluate, design and monitor physical, surgical, pharmaco and cognitive therapies.
Coupling advanced sensor technology with powerful artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms and interactive biofeedback, BioMech Lab captures motion data in clinical or real-world settings to deliver precise, accurate and reproducible assessments and treatment modifications that stratify risk and improve care outcomes.
“Functional motion is a powerful measure of health and includes such fundamental aspects as balance, symmetry, range of motion, voluntary motor responses to stimuli and complex movements like gait,” said BioMech co-founder Frank Fornari, Ph.D.
“With BioMech Lab, clinicians can fully and accurately assess these critical aspects of motion, design treatments and monitor and report outcomes for numerous standard tests and clinical conditions – meaning virtually any clinical specialty can now perform medically necessary tests at the appropriate frequency as part of a comprehensive diagnosis and treatment plan.”
The pandemic was a critical catalyst to change working habits and a massive accelerant to the digital transformation already reshaping the working world. And, this is no more evident than in healthcare where telehealth has quickly grown by orders of magnitude and organizations have fundamentally changed how their essential services are provided.
Although the sudden and rapid demand for telehealth and remote collaboration initially introduced a state of disorder, the last year revealed that telehealth is an efficient adjunct to traditional in-person healthcare and that remote employees can be just as productive working from home as they were in the office.
As a result, expectations have changed for healthcare workers who have experienced an alternative way of providing care and performing their jobs, as well as for patients who have been introduced to a simpler and more convenient way of receiving care. What’s more, remote services provide accessible options to people with mobility limitations and address geographic maldistribution of healthcare expertise.
At Poly, for example, we partnered with Baptist Health Corbin hospital in eastern Kentucky to deliver remote care and expand the reach of medical services to rural communities, while reducing travel costs and drive time for patients and improving safety and security. A challenge for Corbin residents is getting easy access to healthcare due to driving conditions, geographic distance, and lack of public transportation.
Coupled with a global pandemic, Baptist Health Corbin decided to prioritize solutions that would enable them to provide quality care to citizens who could not easily visit their medical facilities. By adopting video solutions for patient rooms, remote clinics and integrations with medical diagnostic tools throughout their facilities, they are empowered with video conferencing that is simple to set up and easy to use, reliable and interoperable with other video products. Baptist Health Corbin patients can now get remote, consistent care in a safe and secure environment without the need to travel.
By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy and government affairs, Omnicell.
Originally, the Great Resignation was an idea, proposed by Anthony Klotz, a professor at Texas A&M University, that predicted a large number of people would leave their jobs after the COVID-19 pandemic ends and life returns to “normal.”
Despite the continuation of the pandemic, a massive number of Americans did not wait to quit their jobs in 2021. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in April 2021 a record 3.8 million people resigned, followed by a string of more record resignations in subsequent months: 3.9 million in June, 4.2 million in July, 4.3 million in August, and 4.4 million in September. In total, more than 24 million Americans quit their jobs from April to September 2021. One writer described the United States as “a nation of quitters.” And during this period, the number of job openings was generally more than double the number of resignations. For example, there were 10.4 million openings at the end of September 2021.
Of course, the big question was why did this mass, sustained exodus from the workforce occur? Not surprisingly, the top reason was the cumulative stress and burnout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This led workers to seek relief and assert their rights, or at least their desires, for better compensation, more flexibility, less stress, and increased job satisfaction.
Resignations have been the most pronounced in the technology and healthcare industries, where workers experienced extreme increases in demand due to the pandemic, resulting in heavier workloads and burnout. From February 2020 to September 2021, healthcare lost an astounding 524,000 workers. The confluence of increased demand for care—driven by increased case volume as well as higher acuity—and an aging workforce that has not been sufficiently replaced by younger generations led to the record numbers of worker departures.
Hospitals and clinics constantly face new challenges that require time, money, and energy to figure out the best solutions. As the need for increasing the value and use cases for 
Responding to growing demand for clinically actionable, quantifiable data to both guide and demonstrate the efficacy of treatment decisions, 
