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LED Lighting. A Sustainable Patient Satisfaction Solution
Welcome to an era when lighting will soon be treated like an appliance. One that can be adjusted remotely from your smart phone or timed to play with your iTunes playlist. The LED (light emitting diode) has changed the environmental game - and we're not just talking mother earth. We're talking the built environment as well.
Take hospitals, for example. In Europe, Philips is experimenting with its HealWell system in hospitals. By changing colors based on time of day, it encourages a patient to wake up, feel more relaxed and sleep more easily. At a field study at the Maastricht University Medical Center in the Netherlands, cardiology patients were found to sleep longer and experience reduced depression. (The New York Times: LED's Change Thinking About the Light Bulb)
The blue light, detected by our brains, the LED emits has the ability to:
- Improve patient and staff satisfaction
- Encourage longer sleep duration for patients
- Create shorter time for patients to fall asleep
- Enhance the mood of patients (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale)
We know that one of the biggest issues with hospitalized patients is there inability to get rest - hindering their ability to recover and negatively affecting their mood.
Are lights the answer? They may just be one of the pieces to the broader puzzle of patient satisfaction.
- BC
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It's a problem when patients and visitors continually struggle to navigate the maze of the modern medical complex. Hospitals are trying to solve it by borrowing strategies from airports and shopping malls.
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Predicting Life Expectancy By Zip Code
“Health Equity” is a term that refers to the social determinants of health such as income, education, nutritious food, safe housing, health insurance, and clean water and air. Consider these facts:
American men in the top half of wage earners live 5.8 years longer.
In the U.S. county with the highest life expectancy, men live 15.5 years and women live 11.7 years longer than their counterparts in the county with the lowest life expectancy.
These are only a couple startling statistics that communicate the economic issue we have in our country when it comes to healthcare. And the more unfortunate news is that the gaps appear to be growing. The main impetus being poverty, not racial or ethnic differences, as many assume. And because of our inability to properly manage our healthcare system to take care of our people, not just force them into the nearest ER and ICU, the disparity is growing and bleeding into issues of generational economic prosperity.
Working hard to create an equal life for yourself and your family, as someone who falls within this nations class of the “poor”, is as challenging as the school child in the failing school working hard to succeed - he’s still left unprepared for his educational future.
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Winning Streak Attributed to Frontier Health? We'll take it.
We’re not saying we should take all of the credit for the Richmond Raiders 13 & 1 record that has landed them in back-to-back league championship games but we’re happy to split it 50/50.
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How does the Hawthorne Effect alter productivity? Why is this important in establishing lasting employee change in the healthcare industry?
Dr. Aaron Anderson, Frontier Health Facilitator, answers.
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The most significant challenge in healthcare might be that there isn't just one.
In a recent article in Crain’s Cleveland Business, four healthcare leaders from that region were asked what the most significant challenges facing healthcare are. The consensus? Well, there wasn’t any. And, perhaps that’s the point.
While we face many complex challenges in healthcare, part of the problem is a lack of consensus about which problems to tackle first. Access, cost, quality, satisfaction, errors – all of these areas need improvement. The challenge for the system and for organizations is to define a clear goal and implement creative, effective solutions to improve overall care.
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One hundred sixty years after the invention of the needle and syringe, we're still using them to deliver vaccines; it's time to evolve. Biomedical engineer Mark Kendall demos the Nanopatch, a one-centimeter-by-one-centimeter square vaccine that can be applied painlessly to the skin. He shows how this tiny piece of silicon can overcome four major shortcomings of the modern needle and syringe, at a fraction of the cost.
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Kenzie (Frontier Health Program Designer) & Ned (CEO of Frontier Health).
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The Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association Welcomes Dr. Dow
Our Health Team stay busy adding their expertise to organizations throughout the country. Allowing them to stay at the forefront of issues and change facing the healthcare industry. Dr. Alan Dow has been invited to visit the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association (VHHA) at their employee retreat. Dr. Dow has been asked to serve on the board of the VHHA and will help create the curriculum for many initiatives they are hoping to spearhead in 2014.
The Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association has 37 member health systems and hospitals, representing 109 community, psychiatric, rehabilitation and specialty hospitals throughout Virginia. Their mission is to improve the health status of the communities they serve.
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Dr. Dow Goes to Harvard
It's one of the premier programs in the world for teaching the people that teach doctor's (deans of medical schools, leaders of residency programs, etc.) and this week, Dr. Dow is one of the course faculty. Teaching to 80 students who are educational leaders in their institutions from across the globe - Singapore, Australia Kuwait - Dr. Dow will be leading several groups on specific skills to help them be better educators and better leaders.
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What do sword play, theatre, doctors, and patients all have In common? The answer lies within the mind of Aaron Anderson - Frontier Health Facilitator who brings theatre to medicine to bridge the patient engagement gap. Grab him for a keynote.
- BC
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The Frontier Health Team - minus the design & production crew. Find out more about who they are and what talents they bring to our clients.
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To Be Proactive or Reactive - Companies Question Which
This month, two articles in the journal Health Affairs provided new insights about health and the workplace.
A first article compared two components of the wellness programs at PepsiCo over seven years. The disease management component focused on helping employees treat known diseases while the lifestyle management program sought to prevent employees from being diagnosed with new diseases. While the disease management component saved money for the company, the lifestyle management component did not.
In the second article, researchers looked at the impact of a diagnosis of diabetes on employees and companies. The study found individuals diagnosed with diabetes dropped out of the workforce at a thirty percent higher rate than non-diabetic people.
Combined, these two studies have some important implications for companies.
1) Disease management programs clearly work to keep employees healthier and save companies money; this finding is not new.
2) In addition though, and less obvious, is what these studies mean for lifestyle management programs. The first study demonstrates that the benefit from lifestyle management programs can be difficult to measure. However, the second study shows that, for the right group of individuals, preventing disease can have a large effect on people and organizations.
The challenge for companies then is this: defining the group of people most likely to benefit from lifestyle management and providing those people with the program they need to maintain and improve health.
The answer to this challenge lies at the intersection between people, companies, research, and medicine.
Finding that answer can make all of us healthier.
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Dr. Alan Dow discuss how we translate changes in the healthcare industry in actionable ways that lead to a better bottom line. We remove the ambiguity from agendas like healthcare reform and provide tools and tactics to a) eloquently understand the changes and their impacts and b) create a better patient environment.
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Aaron came across this article and it poses some interesting questions. Many of the doctors we know do, or at least have, Googled their patients. Is doing so a way to access useful insight or an unnecessary foray into a patient's privacy?
We've included the article above though we suppose you could just Google it.
-WK
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TECH SUPPORT: BEDSIDE TABLETS
We're encouraged by success stories already resulting from Catholic Health Partners' deployment of a pilot system that uses tablets as a two-way patient engagement tool. You'll find them in this article published by the Hudson Hub times, that reinforces our focus on providing a solution that is both highly accessible to the patient and simple to use.
With respect to the $400M price tag for integration or medical centers dealing in geriatrics, we recognize that the technology angle may not yet be the most viable option for everyone. Achieving results through environmental prompts that can be "utilized by all patients of all ages" and equally "effective in their simplicity" we continue to offer an accessible solution for the masses.
-WK
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RX for Apps? Digital patient engagement strategies begin.
We understand low health literacy to be a huge issue in this nation. In fact, "more than half of all visits to a doctor's office don't result in optimal care because the patient doesn't understand what the doctor is saying." (Orca Health)
The deficit is apparent and the solution, not so unfamiliar to the average patient. Enter, the "app". Done correctly, mobile apps can serve to close the education gap that exists in the doctor's office. Allowing patients to be presented with extensive information about what is ailing them, the possible solutions, and the reasons why they were chosen by their doctor.
It doesn't address the human connection between patient and provider and there are fears that it's just another "paperwork-like" step the physician has to engage in - but it is progress toward better, more patient-centric, healthcare.
- BC
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