AI has arrived and is dramatically transforming healthcare systems, ushering in a new era of efficiency and innovation. Patients, staff, and leadership alike are reaping the benefits of these cutting-edge advancements, from enhanced patient care to streamlined administrative processes. As AI continues to evolve at a rapid pace, organizations like Kontakt.io are at the forefront, collaborating with partners and customers to harness the full potential of this emerging technology.
Kontakt.io’s cutting-edge platform is designed to support your staff’s well-being while enhancing patient care. By bringing AI into the mix, your team can spend more quality time with patients, leading to better overall care. Here are five exciting examples of how AI is revolutionizing healthcare today.
1. Streamlined workflows
Using AI in healthcare is a great way to cut down the time your staff spends on administrative tasks. Quality patient care means nurses should be at the patient’s bedside, but they often end up spending a big chunk of their shift on support tasks. While these tasks are important, AI can handle a lot of the manual work, freeing up your team to focus on what really matters: taking care of patients. For example, here are just a few capabilities of AI in healthcare:
- Take clinician notes through voice-to-text transcriptions
- Maintain up-to-date Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)
- Automate appointment scheduling
- Analyze data for informed decision-making
- Recognize insurance fraud
- Share patient data
- Track medication dosages and schedules
- Reduce human error
- Share information with patients
- Utilize virtual nursing assistants
2. Diagnostic assistance
Machine learning in healthcare is a powerful tool that can analyze a patient’s details to predict the effectiveness of treatments. As you know, effective diagnosis and treatment come from studying massive amounts of data about patient characteristics, disease rates, and risk factors. This kind of analysis is time-consuming for humans, but AI speeds up the process and ensures the latest data is used.
AI enhances human care rather than replacing it. Algorithms can be trained to examine data from X-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, and MRIs, aiding in early diagnoses. AI can also process vast amounts of patient information, such as vital signs, demographics, and medical history in ways not previously possible.
Using AI in healthcare to compile and analyze multiple data sources gives medical providers a comprehensive picture of a patient’s health, reducing the risk of misdiagnosis. This helps you reach a quick and accurate diagnosis and provide the best treatment. For example, AI can often spot malignant tumors early or accurately diagnose skin cancer, significantly improving patient outcomes.
3. Robotic surgery
Robot-assisted surgery is another promising AI healthcare development. This innovation was first approved for use in the United States in 2000 and continues to improve, lending greater precision and accuracy to the surgical process making it safer for your patients. Other benefits of AI-assisted surgery are:
- Less invasive procedures
- Image-guided surgery
- Real-time information
- Optimized surgical plans
With the use of real-time information and feedback throughout the surgery, integrated with AI, surgeons are empowered to make informed decisions during and after the procedure. AI’s advantages don’t stop there. It’s also useful in formulating personalized treatment plans to aid the healing process and outcome. For example, AI can help:
- Analyze patient data to identify unique health patterns and needs
- Predict potential health risks and suggest preventive measures
- Tailor medication dosages and therapy schedules based on individual responses
- Integrate genetic information for customized treatment options
- Monitor patient progress in real-time and adjust plans as necessary
- Provide insights for multidisciplinary team collaboration on patient care
- Enhance patient engagement and adherence to treatment plans through personalized communication
4. Asset management
Inefficient processes that waste resources and delay care cause frustration for your staff and your patients. In severe cases, delays in care could even lead to a negative outcome for a patient. With Kontakt.io’s real-time locating system (RTLS), you can keep better track of your assets, save time previously spent searching for devices, and reduce costs associated with loss, theft, and over-ordering.
Kontakt.io’s RTLS platform uses nano tags to track each device’s location in real-time. These nano tags make it easy for your staff to find the equipment they need when they need it. They can also view the device’s maintenance history and schedule servicing. AI-powered asset tracking and analytics also allow you to optimize PAR levels and make informed decisions by generating reports from collected data.
Along with medical devices and equipment, RTLS can track wheelchair locations and manage medical bed usage and availability, improving patient flow and reducing wait times.
Riverside Healthcare success story
Riverside Healthcare is one example of a facility that successfully uses AI to track and manage assets efficiently. This 300-bed facility was having trouble quickly locating needed medical devices. They calculated that over 40 hours a week were wasted just searching for medical pumps. Using RTLS and IoT solutions from Kontakt.io, Riverside Healthcare is now able to quickly locate devices and successfully adopt PAR-level inventory.
In addition to asset management, Riverside Healthcare used Kontakt.io’s platform to improve staff and patient safety. Rolling out wristbands outfitted with smart tags, the facility tracked each patient’s location, making sure they didn’t leave the premises or endanger themselves or others by wandering into a restricted area.
5. Staff safety
Kontakt.io’s goal is to provide solutions to create a positive and safe work environment so your staff can feel comfortable and focus on their patients instead of worrying about their safety.
AI and healthcare are an excellent pairing when it comes to safety protocols. Wearable devices like smart badges provide nurses with a way to immediately signal for help if they find themselves in a dangerous situation. Kontakt.io’s badges have two discreet buttons. One calls for security, and the other signals the need for assistance. The unique ID of each badge communicates the staff member’s identity and precise location in real time so help can get to them quickly.
Security personnel can use AI to evaluate data about workplace incidents to identify ways to keep staff safe proactively. Security personnel can find trends in the time of day or location when incidents occur or spot slow response times and take action to improve.
The increased feeling of safety, combined with other AI use cases of streamlining workflows and tracking assets, can lead to reduced stress and lower burnout rates in your nursing staff. Implementing AI in your facility shows your staff that you care and take their safety and job concerns seriously. By addressing common problems through RTLS technology and other AI technologies, you can transform your operations for the better.
Los Angeles LGBT Center success story
The Los Angeles LGBT Center has 800 employees across eight buildings. The size of the complex made it difficult for staff to communicate effectively, which put them at risk. It was necessary to find security measures that kept staff safe no matter where they were. Kontakt.io was able to provide a solution consisting of both wearable panic buttons for staff and strategically placed panic buttons hidden throughout the facility and interconnected to an RTLS wireless infrastructure. Now, LA LGBT staff feel more secure and stay safe because they can signal for help by pressing a button that instantly transmits their exact location so help can arrive quickly.
Virginia Hospital Center Health System success story
Virginia Hospital Center Health System (VHC) was able to solve its indoor wayfinding problems with the help of Kontakt.io and Phunware, Inc. Using BLE devices and a GPS-like system, VHC can now assist patients and staff with step-by-step directions to get where they need to go.
Kontakt.io is at the forefront of AI technology
At Kontakt.io, we understand that navigating the healthcare industry’s many challenges is often difficult. We want to help make it easier for you, and your staff, to provide high-quality patient care in a safe and supportive environment. Reach out today to find out more about how Kontakt.io’s solutions can help solve your concerns and give you an edge in an ever-evolving and competitive industry.
