Publications by authors named "George S Conklin"
An Evaluation of the Clinical and Financial Value of Work Station Single Sign-on in 19 Hospitals.
Perspect Health Inf Manag
March 2020
Article Synopsis
- A health system introduced single sign-on (SSO) technology in 19 hospitals to streamline clinician access to electronic health records (EHR) by using identification badge readers instead of manual logins.
- The study aimed to evaluate how SSO impacted clinical workflow and saved time, measuring login durations before and after SSO implementation while calculating the dollar value of time saved for various healthcare professionals.
- Results showed significant time reductions: first-of-shift logins decreased by 5.3 seconds and reconnect logins by 20.4 seconds, totaling a weekly time savings of 943.4 hours across all facilities, translating to an annual savings of over $3.2 million in clinician time.
Article Synopsis
- The Joint Commission has reversed its approval of secure clinical texting for issuing patient care orders, now prohibiting it again.
- Despite the usefulness of texting for daily patient care, concerns about transmission delays in high-acuity scenarios could jeopardize patient safety.
- A review found that 84% of secure clinical texting vendors promote their services for critical care settings, highlighting the need for clearer policies to mitigate risks associated with texting in healthcare.
Background: CHRISTUS Health began implementation of computer workstation single sign-on (SSO) in 2015. SSO technology utilizes a badge reader placed at each workstation where clinicians swipe or "tap" their identification badges.
Objective: To assess the impact of SSO implementation in reducing clinician time logging in to various clinical software programs, and in financial savings from migrating to a thin client that enabled replacement of traditional hard drive computer workstations.