Healthcare Keyboards

The Problem

• Hospital-acquired infections rank as the fourth leading cause of death in America.

• The numbers are staggering: according to the CDC, two million patients fall ill to infections in hospitals each year. More than 100,000 patients die annually as a result, which is as many as those who die from breast cancer, AIDS and motor vehicle accidents — combined.

• As of October 2008, Medicare no longer reimburses hospitals for the cost of treating a number of preventable infections acquired there (called nosocomial infections). The hospitals must take a loss, since they also are not allowed to charge the sick patients for the cost of treatment.

• Infections acquired through contamination are the most difficult to treat, because they are often antibiotic-resistant.

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Keyboards in Healthcare

• Researchers at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital say computer keyboards can harbor dangerous germs for as long as 24 hours.

• Research teams at the hospital contaminated keyboards with three types of bacteria that can cause life-threatening infections in severely ill hospital patients. They found that the bacteria known as VRE and MRSA survived for at least 24 hours, while PSAE bacteria survived for an hour.

• When volunteers tapped a key contaminated with MRSA, the bacteria spread to their hands 92 percent of the time. Contamination rates are lower for the other two bacteria -- 50 percent for VRE and 18 percent for PSAE.

Costs of HAI • The average charges for Medicare patients with a

hospital- acquired infection were about $160,000, compared to $32,000 for Medicare patients who did not contract an infection.

• For Medicaid patients, the average charges were approximately $391,000 for patients who contracted an infection while hospitalized, compared to an average of $29,700 where an infection did not occur.

• Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a widely publicized type of antibiotic-resistant hospital-acquired infection, can cost hospitals roughly $30,000 per case.

Healthcare Providers

Integrated Delivery Networks (IDN’s) Cover large geographical areas through a network of care delivery systems May Also be referred to as an Integrated Delivery System (IDS)

Academic Health Systems Drive the new visions and standards of care delivery

Community and Regional Usually 100 beds or less. They tend to be more frugal because of limited resources

Specialty Hospitals Tend to set the standard for care in select specialties Usually get marketed as most innovative

Clinics and Centers Can be independent or part of an IDN Usually for profit so competition drives purchasing Specialty

Practices Physician and Dental Offices

Senior Care Skilled Nursing Assisted Living

Home Health Visiting Nurses CNA’s Telehealth Rehab

Healthcare by the NumbersTotal US Workers 13,000,000

US Hospitals (2009) 5,815

Staffed Beds (2009) 951,045

Nursing and Residential Care (2004) 69,342

US Nursing Homes (2010) 16,500

SNF Beds (2010) 1,700,000

Ambulatory Care Centers (2002) 489,021

Dental Offices 118,305

Physician Offices (non-mental health) 192,794

Outpatient Clinics 25,750

Diagnostic Laboratories 11,079

Hardware Solutions for Healthcare Office Solutions

Used for Practice Management, EMR and EHR and Electronic Prescribing Document Management

PACS/RIS/CR Picture Archiving System/Radiology Information System/ Computed Radiography

The digitization and manipulation of Digital Images for diagnosis Includes 3-D imaging and analysis

HIS Hospital Information System Usually describes Hospital or IDN Network deployment

Hospital Mobility or Patient Care Point of Care Systems

Usually refers to devices that help track data at point of care Patient Infotainment

Security and Environmental Access Control Patient Safety Systems Wayfinding Digital Signage

Who Should You Be Talking To? OEM’s and ISV’s

Engage as you would currently IDN’s and Hospitals

Purchasing Department IT Department Infection Control

Clinics and Centers Office Manager Business Manager IT Staff Clinic Ownership

Practices Office Manager Business Manager IT Staff Practice Ownership

Senior Care Administrator Facility Maintenance Manager IT Purchasing May Need to Engage Corporate if it’s Multi Facility Entity

Home Health No Current Market

Healthcare Computer ManufacturersAdvantech

Amrel

Arbor

Cybernetman

Dedicated Computing

Dell

HP

JAO Tech (Netherlands)

Medix (Tangent)

Motion Computing

Panasonic Toughbook

Tangent

WinComm

Healthcare ISV’s

• Accusoft Pegasus• Allscripts• Athena Health• Eclypsis• Epic• GE Centricity (IDX)• McKesson• Merge• Misys• Sage

Healthcare Grade Televisions

PDI

HCI

Philips

LG (Zenith)

Sharp

Healthcare Television Distributors

HealthCare Media Technologies

TB&A (HospitalTV.com)

Pharmacy Solutions

• SwissLog

• AllScripts

• McKesson

• Amerisource Bergin

• QS/1

Beds and Accessories

Curbell Electronics

Stryker Medical

Hill-Rom

Patient Infotainment Systems

Skylight Healthcare Systems

Vigo

TeleHealth Services (iKey keyboard)

Lodgenet

GetWell Network

myStation

eVideon

Medivista (Lincor Solutions)

Thinix

Keyboards in Healthcare

Healthcare Office Products

• J82-16001• G83-6104 or G83-6105• G86-71401• G83-14501

Healthcare Kiosk and Wayfinding

• J86-4400• G86-62401• G84-5500• G84-4400

Point of Care

• J84-4300• J84-2120

G83-14600/14700 AuthenTec Swipe Keyboard

Strong Authentication

ST-1503 eHealth Terminal

Strong Authentication

G87-1504 eHealth Smart Card Keyboard

ST-2062 eHealth Terminal

Mice

• M4200• M2800

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