'Doc, I Need Help Now!' Accelerating Wound Care Diagnosis with TigerText

Most people know TigerConnect Clinical Collaboration Platform – Standard is great for sending ePHI on the go, but it’s also great for accelerating wound care diagnosis.

Using TigerConnect Clinical Collaboration Platform – Standard, physicians and nurses can not only quickly and securely send a description of a wound to a physician, but they can also send an image of the wound in real-time. With image sharing capabilities, nurses and physicians can accurately assess a patient’s condition and confirm diagnosis faster. In addition to sending wound images, patient forms and attachments can also be sent via TigerConnect Clinical Collaboration Platform – Standard enabling for even quicker physician approvals.

The result, less waiting times and happier patients.

Several facilities are already using TigerConnect Clinical Collaboration Platform – Standard for these very purposes. For example, Dina Melhuish, a data specialist at Memorial Hospital of Gulf Port, shares how image sharing within TigerConnect Clinical Collaboration Platform – Standard helped speed up internal approval processes.

“For wound care, when we’re waiting for a piece of equipment or forms to be signed, we used to have to go search for a doctor to sign the forms,” said Melhuish. “Now, I send the document to be signed through TigerConnect Clinical Collaboration Platform – Standard, and they sign it and send it back to me. It speeds up the process by two days. It’s fast. It’s easy. It’s the way of the future.”

Using TigerConnect Clinical Collaboration Platform – Standard for wound care diagnosis also provides the following benefits:

• Reduced Medical Information Error – There’s no need to worry about forgetting what a wound looked like. With TigerConnect Clinical Collaboration Platform – Standard, you can see the image directly on your device.
• Improved Response Rates – Prevent treatment delays by communicating with your colleagues faster. With TigerConnect Clinical Collaboration Platform – Standard, 95% of responses are answered in 60 seconds or less!
• Decreased Patient Wait Times – Quickly assess a patient’s condition and confirm diagnosis faster, helping to decrease patient wait times.
• Confirmed Message Delivery – With “delivered” and “read” receipts, clinicians can rest assured their image has been sent and received.

To read the full use case on how clinicians are accelerating wound care diagnosis using TigerConnect Clinical Collaboration Platform – Standard