Zynx Health Unveils Revolutionary Evidence-Based Mobile Care Team Coordination and Secure Messaging Solution
Los Angeles, September 22, 2014 -- Zynx Health™, the market leader in providing evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions, today announced the general availability of ZynxCarebook™, a mobile platform designed to profoundly improve care team collaboration across the healthcare continuum. This first-of-its-kind Mobile Care Navigation Network™and Secure ConText Messaging™ solution meets the often impenetrable challenges associated with enabling effective on-the-go communication in busy healthcare environments. Similar to Zynx Health's leading evidence-based intelligence, ZynxCarebook also enables healthcare organizations to radically improve care quality and optimize financial performance.
"Here at Marin General Hospital (MGH), like so many other facilities across the country, we experienced the frustrations associated with trying to communicate across the care team in a hectic, rapidly changing environment," says Mark Zielazinski, CIO at MGH. "We needed to ensure the highest levels of security and privacy were being met, given the number of providers using smart phones. At the same time, we knew that optimal care hinges on bringing multiple caregivers together to access and then implement best practices in a coordinated fashion."
"With the implementation of ZynxCarebook, our multidisciplinary teams, both inpatient and aftercare, connect in real time as they transition patients from the hospital to other facilities or to home. The platform has helped MGH in its process improvement efforts to streamline communications and transitions by saving physicians time, shortening average length of stay, and reducing readmissions," says Zielazinski, who cited that the use of the solution prompted Frost & Sullivan to grant the hospital a CIO Impact Best-in-Class Award.
In addition to providing access to clinical evidence that guides clinicians to adopt best practices, ZynxCarebook eliminates the frustrations associated with traditional communication methods. For example, caregivers no longer have to spend inordinate amounts of time trying to make a connection with other clinicians via standard telephone and paging devices. In addition, ZynxCarebook complies with stringent security regulations, eliminating the security and privacy risk associated with clinicians using standard short message service (SMS) texting for care communications. Perhaps best of all, communications are delivered within a patient-specific context, eliminating the need to search for the relevancy of each message and enabling caregivers to take immediate action.
The solution allows care team members across settings to round on their patients in real time via a "virtual huddle." This unique capability of connecting care team members across the continuum, regardless of their care setting, set the technology apart from others, prompting a citation from Gartner Group in its list of Cool Vendors for Healthcare Providers.
"Zynx Health has created a suite of products that make it possible for care providers to leverage evidence-based guidelines at the point of care. Becoming a part of the Zynx family means that the ZynxCarebook solution can put the best evidence into the hands of clinicians at the crucial care moments. In essence, we are not only enabling clinicians to connect in real time as a cohesive team, but also empowering them to take the actions to improve care," says Siva Subramanian, PhD, senior vice president of mobile products at Zynx Health and the creator of ZynxCarebook.
About Zynx Health
Zynx Health, part of the Hearst Health network, is the pioneer and market leader in evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement and mobile care solutions that provide the care guidance to enhance quality, improve care coordination, and decrease variation across an individual's health journey. With Zynx Health, healthcare organizations exceed industry demands for delivering high-quality care at lower costs under value-based reimbursement models. Zynx Health partners with healthcare organizations to continuously and measurably improve care every day, for every patient, every time. To learn more, visit www.zynxhealth.com or call 855.367.ZYNX.
About Hearst Health
Zynx Health is part of the Hearst Health network, which also includes FDB (First Databank), MCG (formerly Milliman Care Guidelines), and Homecare Homebase. The mission of the Hearst Health network is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person's health journey. Each year in the U.S., care guidance from the Hearst Health network reaches 76% of discharged patients, 133 million insured individuals, 20 million home health visits, 1.88 billion retail pharmacy prescriptions, and 3.26 billion prescription claims. Extensions of the Hearst Health network include Hearst Health Ventures and the Hearst Health Innovation Lab. To learn more, visit www.hearsthealth.com