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The increasingly widespread physician and nurse use of tablets over laptops has undeniably promoted responsiveness and critical information sharing, yet care coordination between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) has been tangled in manual processes, often relying on the patient to coordinate. The Hospital Council of Northern and Central California, whose members represent 185 hospitals and healthcare systems, has been looking at new ways to improve patient transition and interventions. As part of a grant project, the group was seeking a quality improvement tool that could be easily implemented and provide valuable metrics, while obtaining real-time feedback from patients, users and care providers.
CareInSync, creator of the Carebook™ mobile care collaboration platform, heard about the project through a hospital advisor and reached out to the Council, offering a demo. Siva Subramanian, Ph.D., CareInSync’s founder and COO, said the project perfectly aligned with CareInSync’s goals. “While our software application was in use at hospitals, home health, clinics and so forth, we’d not yet implemented a SNF when we engaged with the Hospital Council. It’s been a unique opportunity and very relevant to our mission. There’s nothing like this across the country that supports SNFs and hospitals on a single mobile network.”