Core Mobile's Engaged Efficiency™ solutions
improve hospital proficiency and patient satisfaction
Our Story
Since inception, Core Mobile's Engaged Efficiency™ solutions have been focused on using mobile and predictive analytic technologies to improve hospital proficiency and patient satisfaction. Engaged patients equal lower readmissions and revisits.
The Inspiration
Chandra Tekwani, Core Mobile Inc.'s founder, learned firsthand about the need for healthcare collaboration and post discharge care coordination when caring for his son during multiple surgeries.
He witnessed ineffective care coordination between surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses. All day long, Chandra watched people continually input/access information, order tests, and repeatedly try reaching people for consults or information. He witnessed hours of wasted time doing manual coordination.
The problem became more evident when he received overly complex discharge instructions, that resulted with a wound dressing change that was missed because is was difficult to decipher the lengthy type-written instructions.
The Solution
Chandra had spent 20+ years in mobile and internet security technologies, including serving as VP and Head of Juniper Network’s Worldwide Mobile Carrier Business, Director of Engineering for Nokia/CheckPoint, and Director of Solutions at Netscreen Technologies. Chandra founded Core Mobile with a seed investment from Citrix combined with guidance from anesthesiologists, surgeons, and primary care providers. Based on his research, Chandra patented the technology to make Engaged Efficiency™ possible.
The Process
Core Mobile starts with a context-driven engine to provide relevant information on providers’ and patients’ mobile devices. Content can be related to a procedure, diagnosis, schedule, location, phone call, or test results.
● Patients can view instructions, images, and videos.
● Providers can view patient records from multiple EMRs, PACS and other clinical systems.
Then, information is made actionable:
● Patients can communicate with providers via text, voice-to-text, images, and videos.
● Providers can order clinical tests and prescriptions; set reminders for prescriptions; and make new information available to patients and the provider team.
The collected information is used to coordinate care. Messages can be sent between team members using one-to-one messages or team messages. Communications also can be directed to the patient and family members.
The combined information and actions drive a predictive analytics engine to further streamline workflow and care activities.
The key success measurements are:
● Reduction of OR turnover times between 5 and 15 minutes per patient.
● Increase in patient throughput between 5% and 20%.
● Reduction in readmissions and revisits between 5% and 20%.
This technology is further enhanced by integration with wearables from Apple, Samsung, and Jawbone.
The technology was successfully tested by more than 1,000 users prior to implementation in the healthcare industry in 2014.
How is Core Mobile Being Utilized Today?
“The initial study using paper charting took in total about 14 months to complete. Whereas the same study using Core Mobile software took about 16 weeks to complete and present at a conference."
“The use of the CoreyPatient™ mobile app has not only improved our patient pre-surgical instruction compliance, reduced cancellations, and increased throughput; but it has also enhanced our post-surgical follow-ups to advance overall patient satisfaction and patient outcomes. I would highly recommend CoreyPatient to any surgery center who wishes to bring their facility to the next level of efficiency and patient engagement.”
“Epic training takes 8 hours initially and a 2 month "go live" period with Epic trainers in the hospital with you. Compared to that, anyone who can send a text and use a simple smart phone app can use CoreMobile apps after 30 minutes.”
“Core Mobile addresses a gap in delivering useful content to end users of cloud-based services with a technology that identifies the most relevant subset of content, correlates it across multiple sources, and delivers it via a user-friendly interface that fits the small display of a smartphone – all in real time.”