TECH & DIGITALISATION
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Worker Vision from Honeywell
This includes writing data down on paper manually , but another statistic shows that , on average , a nurse will be interrupted 10 times in one hour . Because of this workload and the propensity for interruption , a vast swathe of nurses and providers are not tremendously happy with their working environment .
“ In fact , 30-40 % of nurses will quit in the first three years of their working experience , particularly those in the ICU .”
A high turnover rate of employees is bad for business . So , Honeywell looks for ways that they can help companies , but from the perspective of digitisation .
“ How do we enable companies to do some of these things automatically ? How do we enable companies to do some of
“ HEALTH CANNOT BE A QUESTION OF INCOME ; IT IS A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT ”
NELSON MANDELA these things remotely ,” asks Robinson .
Of the times a nurse is interrupted across an hour , there will often be a call from a patient ' s room , 70 % of which are unrelated to clinical issues . They may range from finding a remote control to needing a glass of water . But how does the nurse differentiate between a clinical emergency versus a room service request ?
Honeywell has an upgraded nurse call solution system that is digitised and can sort through different requests , providing nurses with guidance to escalate each of these requests based on the clinical emergency .
“ We enable digitisation in the hospital space by really providing solutions , clinical flow solutions , or workflow solutions that are able to drive efficiency through the
38 January 2023