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January 12, 2010

Healthcare Technology and News: Voalte Intros iPhone App to Enhance Patient Response


Healthcare professionals now have a new tool in the form of an iPhone application to help them better communicate and speed up patient response.
 
Software solutions company Volate.com  – a name derived from Voice Alarm and Text - recently released its Voalté One iPhone application to hospitals nationwide. The iPhone application brings communication technology to nurses and other point-of-care workers. The app consolidates all three functions on the iPhone platform.
 
The app, the first of its kind, lets users send and receive text messages, make voice calls and receive critical care alarms on the iPhone, allowing people to offer faster response to patients, the company said.
 
The product took more than five years to develop and design and was created by Trey Lauderdale, Voalté’s vice president of innovation.
 
“Clear and accurate communication is crucial to delivering high quality patient care,”
Lauderdale said in a statement. “I knew there had to be a better way. I wanted to consolidate all of the point-of-care communication functions into one mobile platform.”
 
The iPhone app is the latest from Voalté, which provides software solutions for healthcare institutions that solve communication problems at the point-of-care. Voalté products are designed to be high value, mission critical applications that run on the latest generation of touch-based smartphones.
 
Last June, Voalté launched a pilot program as part of its development partnership with Sarasota Memorial Hospital under which nurses give immediate and direct feedback to the company via iPhones. The hospital staff worked with the Voalté team to gauge the success of the solution. The company used feedback of more than 100 nurses and point-of-care workers and fine-tuned the product to meet the needs of individual departments and users. As a result, the solution is now shipping nationwide, the company said.


Amy Tierney is a Web editor for HealthTechZone, covering business communications Her areas of focus include conferencing, SIP, Fax over IP, unified communications and telepresence. Amy also writes about education and healthcare technology, overseeing production of e-Newsletters on those topics as well as communications solutions and UC. To read more of Amy's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Amy Tierney
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