Harvard's Children's Hospital Deploys SeePoint Kiosks to Facilitate Better Emergency Department Decision Making
Boston, Massachusetts – Monday, November 01, 2004 – Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Boston, one of the best children’s care facilities in the nation, have deployed SeePoint Technology kiosks as part of a ground breaking study of the treatment of pediatric asthma patients in the emergency room. Parents use the kiosks to directly enter data and critical information about their children’s’ symptoms, medications, and needs to assist in the evaluation of care options. The doctors conducting the study view the kiosks as an important data entry portal to leverage patient-entered information and drive correct clinical decision making. Based on the success of the asthma kiosk project, expanded use of the kiosks is planned for a multi-site research trial.
The asthma kiosk study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, concluded that the kiosk-enabled data capture provided significant advantages to workflow and patient care. The asthma kiosks capture patient-specific data during real-time care in the emergency department with a mean completion time of 11 minutes. The asthma kiosk also successfully links parents' data to treatment guideline recommendations and identifies data critical to health improvements for asthmatic children that otherwise remains undocumented during emergency department-based care.
The SeePoint kiosk includes a HIPAA compliant privacy filter. This filter allows only the individual using the kiosk system to read the data on the screen and is a key to fulfilling the HIPAA mandate of protecting private medical information while making it increasingly accessible to the individual patient. The HIPAA compliant filter integrated with SeePoint kiosks limits the viewing angle of the LCD to a narrow field of view without compromising readability for the intended user.
Prior to implementing the study, researchers evaluated several kiosk system options. A number of factors led to the selection of SeePoint’s systems. “The SeePoint kiosks presented the best mix of a small, mobile kiosk with good screen real estate to make it easy for patients to use,” said Dr. Stephen Porter, the principal investigator conducting the study. “Other technical considerations such as the availability of wireless network connectivity as well as excellent reliability and touch screen functionality also made the SeePoint system a clear choice,” said Dr. Porter.
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SeePoint Technology is a leading provider of interactive, Internet-ready, fully integrated kiosk systems. SeePoint designs and manufactures interactive information systems that are ideal for government applications, retail services, ticketing systems, public information terminals and customer service applications.
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