Heart Performance Monitoring Services Minimizing the Burdens of Healthcare Providers

Posted on March 17, 2023

Health worker burnout is at an all-time high. According to a study by Medscape National, about 4 in every 10 healthcare workers confessed to burning the candle at both ends. When care workers are overburdened, this can spell doom for the entire industry. It leads to poor patient engagement and can elevate a facility’s susceptibility to making medical errors that lower treatment efficacy or quality. How do you beat burnout in healthcare? A remote cardiac monitoring service is certainly a step in the right direction. Here are a couple of ways it helps to ease the strain on healthcare providers.

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AI-backed arrhythmia classification to minimize interpretation work

How long does it take to diagnose an arrhythmia? Depending on the exact method logy in question, this could be anywhere from 30 days to 24 hours, depending on the involvement of a holter monitor or mobile cardiac telemetry.

During this period, technicians have to continuously monitor ECG strips and performance interpretations so often to figure out whether a patient has an arrhythmia, and if so, what type of rhythm problem.

All in all, arrhythmia classification entails a lot of work. Scale these tasks by the magnitude of the patient base, and physicians are faced with immense workloads that threaten to overwhelm.

With Cardiac Rhythm’s heart performance monitoring service, however, the workload gets a lot lighter through the power of artificial intelligence. Our AI-driven technology, entailing a machine learning classification engine, can help physicians with arrhythmia classification pointers thus ensuring:

1. Less effort goes into the process
2. Diagnoses are more accurate
3. Better workflow scalability
4. Cost-effectiveness and more

Ready settings to match institution policies

Many healthcare facilities that turn to a heart performance monitoring service, always face one challenge: translating these reports or services to meet certain protocols or guidelines at the institutional level.

For example, a practice might have regulations about report formats and data to be stored therein. Reports from the provider might not be in this ready format hence the need to rework it to remove this mismatch of policies.

However, by turning to a provider like Cardiac Rhythm, you can take this part of the workflow completely off the hands of your clinical work. With ready settings to ensure an alignment of institutional policies right from the outsourcing service, there’s less work on the part of technicians.

Compliant data storage to minimize compliance efforts

Protecting patient data, per various data laws and regulations can involve a lot of leg work. For many care facilities, that entails:

1. Figuring out what classifies as personal data
2. Creating a checklist
3. Training staff on best practices
4. Establishing oversight measures
5. Restricting data access and so much more

Data from an outsourced service must also be run through various processes to ensure it doesn’t infringe on several laws. The good thing about using a heart ECG monitoring report service is that it can provide compliant data storage.

Consequently, this eases the effort that goes into data remediation for compliance or regulation purposes.

Automatic data capture to avert manual data processing

Conventional holter monitoring may entail long hours of staring at holter monitors, MCTs, and various other technologies to deduce various hints that may point toward an abnormality.

For clinical workflows reliant upon legacy technologies that require a lot of human intervention in the data capture process, this only ensures overexertion by clinical workers, thus leaving the door ajar for:

1. Increased billable hours in case physicians have to work overtime
2. Human error as fatigue creeps in with extended hours
3. Hampered clinical decision making
4. Depleting job satisfaction for clinical workers

Cardiac Rhythm’s 24 hr ECG monitoring service solves all of these challenges by providing physicians with the ability to configure periodic data capture. Consequently, ECG technicians can keep tabs on patient vitals at pre-set times, without having to constantly check in on the technology to manually take down patient data at these intervals.

As a result, there’s a more hands-off data handling process, making the workflow several tasks lighter than it would be otherwise.

Delegating patient engagement through heart monitoring services

Patient engagement is largely the responsibility of practices. The onus traditionally lies with them to find new avenues to better connect with their patients. But, reliance on the right technology, can make things much easier when it comes to patient engagement, more so with cardiac patients.

Cardiac Rhythm provides a heart performance monitoring service that cannot just ease the burden of administrative tasks but patient engagement as well. Here are a few features of our technology that streamlines the patient activation or engagement process:

1. Personalized workflow and tracking tools
2. Patient-specific report summaries
3. Patient portals to help patients get more involved

In a nutshell, our heart monitoring service provides the capabilities clinical workers need to readily personalize the patient experience, as opposed to having to build or implement these strategies from scratch.

Aiding with monitoring for prescription purposes

Before a physician can serve up a prescription to a patient, it’s necessary to monitor certain thresholds. It may also warrant taking into account a heap of other data, particularly pertaining to how different drugs work across the board for various persons. While we’ll not go into specifics, the short of it is that physicians must exert a lot of effort to stay on top of these metrics before recommending medication of any kind to the patient.
Cardiac Rhythm’s remote cardiac monitoring service can once more save physicians from extra work in this respect. Our technology provides a simpler and much more convenient avenue to monitor various thresholds for prescriptions, all in one place. This ensures doctors can arrive at a prescription with less effort and a much shorter turnaround time.

A culture of worker wellness is necessary

When the burden on healthcare workers increases, physicians can feel short of motivation to work and even disconnect from patients. A heart ECG monitoring report service is one way to start easing the pressure on modern care workers, who are already taking on more than they should due to the global staffing shortages ailing healthcare. Beyond our technology, hospitals and clinics also need to be proactive in identifying worker concerns and strive to create a culture of worker wellness. Contact us today for a heart performance monitoring service that will help restore balance to your clinical workflow.

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