The texting-based communication platform at OSF , which was built during the pandemic , had a 520 % increase in adoption from patients
Last year , there was an outbreak of RSV in young children and babies , yet it took OSF less than a week to support the parents and the babies remotely with monitoring and the ability to escalate to video visit if necessary .
Another group of patients is benefitting from a remote patient monitoring ( RPM ) programme that is providing support for some women in between medical appointments .
“ We added 24 / 7 RPM and communications for our pregnancy and postpartum patients . Medicaid patients are the most vulnerable in terms of access to and quality of care . We added that last year in August and we ’ ve seen nearly 1,500 patients enrolled .”
OSF has been expanding some of these programmes in communities where other hospital systems have decided to suspend services . In addition , the non-profit healthcare organisation is utilising real-time patient data in multiple ways .
“ It ’ s a valuable indicator for intervention and decision making for our providers . We also use the real-time data to enhance our AI model , with the end goal to improve patient outcomes and enhance care quality for our patients .”
One of the things that patient data can be used for is patient records , as Foulger explains : “ Over the years , we ’ ve built a comprehensive set of longitudinal data around our patients . These patient health records look at the continuum of what care
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