Samsung's Digital Health Armamentarium includes smart TVs, tablets, phones, watches and rings.
Cherry Drulis, director of Healthcare Mobile B2B at Samsung, sat together MobihealthNews at the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas will discuss the impact of Samsung's digital strategy on hospitals and health systems.
MobiHealthNews: How can digital technology tools help healthcare providers to make their work easier and improve patient care?
Cherry Doris: Watch your workflow and leverage digital touchpoints and applications to increase efficiency, eliminate clunky workstations on the wheels, eliminate PCs at point of care, leverage mobile devices, and allow you to interact with EHR from your mobile devices.
The power of mobile devices leverages digital technology coupled with interactive patient care platforms that place patients in care centers and truly put patients in care centers, allowing tablets to control the environment.
These digital touchpoints also integrate TVs, digital whiteboards, door signs and kiosks to improve overall efficiency.
What we talked about at the HIMSS (conference) is how consumers get a smart theme that connects to digital devices and brings them to their healthcare systems.
That concept not only allows us to create what we now call a smart patient room. It can be created at the hospital level using the same technology.
It leverages sensors and digital devices to improve the overall experience from the time you drop in the car park, where you can easily park for visitors and families, the parking spaces are currently open, a hospital-connected journey, patients enter the lobby, self-check-in, and then navigate patients to places that promote confusion and frustration.
It also brings it to a level of ease of use. Let's say you have a clinician roaming the mobile, you need to have a meeting room set up, you need to use the system to understand exactly which rooms are open, and schedule them on the go.
Even if the family visits the patient, the patient will descend for surgery and the family will be hungry. You can order food from your tablet or TV, then go down and pick up the food.
MHN: What technology do hospital customers want? Are they telling you what it takes to make things more efficient?
Doris: We present the prototype in HIMSS smart cart based on feedback we get from one of our large healthcare systems. One of the biggest demands we are getting is how to make clinicians more efficient at the time of care.
MHN: Are you on the horizon when it comes to the future of digital healthcare technology?
Doris: From what we see, the future of care is really taking advantage of what we have from our consumer side and leveraging the devices of our home. You want to connect that patient journey and get all the data you are collecting through your device. It combines AI and AI platforms that allow clinicians to comply with all of their data and convert that data into smart healthcare data to improve the overall welfare of individuals. So we actually adopt healthcare in our consumer products, connect all these digital devices to improve the overall health of our individuals.
