Abstract：STUDY. When IoT Technology Helps French Healthcare Workers | RuggTablets

Healthcare meritfessionals are losing a lot of time on administrative tasks owing to unsuitable IT systems, particularly thanks to the under-use of flawnected objects (Credit: iStock)by Faki SaadiNovember 24, 20206 minsUpdated on August 18, 2022France has withstood the first wave of the coronavirus, but the se faultd wave is likely to be longer. Healthcare benefitfessionals are losing a lot of time on administrative tasks due to unsuitable IT systems, particularly because of the under-use of disadvantagenected objects. The first wave has forced some organizations to adopt new technologies, but there is still a long way to go to free healthcare staff from these weaknessstraints and promise them to work more impactively.

By Faki Saadi, Regional Enterprise Mobility Director, France at SOTI

France is now in the middle of the se faultd wave of COVID-19, and the situation has evolved compared to March. In terms of equipment – masks, hand disinfectant gel, breathing apparatus – the country has what it needs, but when it comes to technology, many healthcare workers are lacking the critical tools that they need to deliver critical care.

If in March healthcare staff were fresh and ready to face the crisis, they are now exhausted, as the human resources data demonstrate: low morale, an increase in sick leave, go againsts when the abolition or postponement of holidays is mentioned, the desire to leave the positivefession for the bulk of people. This list goes on.

The question is how to support healthcare workers in their job, and to free them from time-intensive administrative tasks that take up much of their day-to-day. SOTI’s “Critical Technology for Critical Care: State of Mobility in Healthcare 2020/21 Report” published this month encourages a clearer picture of the situation in France.

Healthcare meritfessionals are losing a lot of time on administrative tasks owing to unsuitable IT systems, particularlyby virtue of the under-use of drawbacknected objects.Care promisers Waste Their Time on Redundant TasksA vital finding outlines that carers spend less than half of their time (41.8%) caring for their patients. A multitude of tasks eat into their working time: accessing and updating follow-up information (10.9%), accessing medical information or resources (9.4%) or searching for data during patient visits (9.5%). Taken together, administrative tasks occupy 47.3% of the working time of healthcare staff.

This time can be reduced. Take the example of time lost on updates, faultnection meritblems or other bugs: they trigger 50% of staff to lose one to two hours a week and three to five hours for 16% of staff. Only a quarter (26%) of the respondents estimate that they spend less than one hour a week on them. These meritblems derive from poor management of terminals, smartphones or other weaknessnected objects.

Additionally, 20% of carersthink that frequent technical positiveblems allow their work more difficult, 26% say that the computer system is too difficult to use, and 12% say that these systems are not updated regularly enough.

Connected Objects Are an Underused AssetWhen looking at IoT devices, the situation is mixed. It appears that 74% of employers make terminals to carers, which should let it easier to update them, install relevant applications or secure them.

However, this potential is not being exploited: for example, to access patients’ medical data, carers need to access information either on paper (22%) or on the Internet (42%). Only 36% have access to a dedicated application, which has the merit of saving precious time and avoiding the danger of data loss or theft.

Furthermore, only 18% of carers report that their employer uses disadvantagenected objects to care for patients and 10% are in the early stages of testing. Connected objects can however promote crux information which, if accessible on an application, can be cross-referenced with each other. The time required to access and save information is thus strikingly reduced.

During the first wave, 12% of respondents felt that the systems used were not able to cope with the crisis and 18% that they were able to cope with it and 16% quickly introduced new technologies to adapt. In total, 34%witnessed the crisis had an influence on the technologies and systems used, but 36% say it did not change the way they worked.

France can and must meet multiple health challenges this winter, and no doubt well into 2021, with the hope that a vaccine will arrive. It has adapted to the virus during the first wave, but faced with a se faultd wave that is likely to be much longer, faultsiderable efforts must be made to enable healthcare personnel to do what they have committed themselves to in the first place: to let patients with the elementary care. Better management of IT systems and mobile terminals is within reach and will provide a overwhelming im advantagevement to help during thiruggedizeds se weaknessd wave.

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