{"id":24749,"date":"2020-08-29T16:56:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T11:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/?p=24749"},"modified":"2020-12-18T07:14:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T07:14:33","slug":"long-term-care-allows-residents-to-leave-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/long-term-care-allows-residents-to-leave-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents can now spend time away from their long-term care homes &#8211; minister Merrilee Fullerton declared"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/mltc\/en\/2020\/08\/safe-outings-now-possible-for-long-term-care-home-residents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">news release<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Ontario Long-Term Care Minister Merrilee Fullerton announced that residents are now allowed to leave their homes for short-stay and temporary absences!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">She further said that this will improve the quality of life of residents while ensuring the safety of them. She considered it a welcome change.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Before leaving homes, residents will get masks from LTC homes and upon arrival, LTC homes must screen the residents. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">For residents\u2019 convenience, there isn\u2019t any requirement for self-isolation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The decision to allow residents to leave homes comes after many reported cases regarding the awful mental health of residents because of the pandemic panic and family visit ban.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">However, this is a totally passive solution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">What can long-term care homes Toronto do to have smarter and safer homes for residents that increases their quality of life in a direct way?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The answer lies within senior care technologies!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: x-large;\"><b>3 Revolutionary Senior Care Technologies For Long-Term Care Home Toronto<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Disclaimer: the following senior care technologies might seem very futuristic and costly. But we\u2019ve already implemented it in many long-term care homes within their budget.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>1. Long Term Care Automation\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An RN, RPN, Physician and DOC spend their productive time on managing data, prescriptions and invoices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">What if you let them only focus on resident care and automate all labour-intensive tasks?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Residents can receive the ultimate care! Right?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">And let me tell you, automation isn\u2019t that futuristic and costly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">To automate a task such as invoicing, all you need to do &#8211; install a software bot on the computer and keep this computer running.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The bot automatically extracts invoice data and emails those invoices to relevant recipients.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Similarly, you can automate many other senior care operations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Resident Data Management\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Prescription Ordering &amp; Management\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Medication Management<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Sales &amp; Purchase Order Management<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Concern Management of Residents\u2019 Family Members\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Compliance Management<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Talking about cost, a software bot that runs operations 24\/7 costs you much lower than the salary you are paying your staff for performing the same tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In case you want to know the exact cost, here is the detailed blog on <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/rpa-development-with-uipath-cost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">automation cost<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<strong>2.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><strong>Virtual Care Solution for Long-Term Care Homes<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Let\u2019s peek into the work-life of a physician working in an LTC home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">He goes from one resident to another.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">He checks multiple sources to get the medical history of a resident.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">He searches for nurses throughout the facility to assign tasks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">He makes DOC aware of each resident\u2019s health status.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">At the end of the day, he wastes 50% of his time in coordination and collaboration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">What if he can perform all his tasks from his mobile phone, even from his home?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">It is possible with a virtual care solution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">With a virtual care solution for long-term care homes,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A physician can treat residents remotely using encrypted video calls.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A physician can assign tasks to nurses with a single click.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A physician can know the medical history of all residents from one source &#8211; the virtual care solution installed on his mobile.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A DOC can check the health status of all residents on a single dashboard.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A physician can write e-prescription and the virtual care solution sends it automatically to the pharmacy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">In essence, the physician can treat more residents in a given time with high effectiveness without being in close contact with residents!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">One such virtual care solution, I would suggest is Writi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has helped an LTC home to reduce administrative burdens and paperwork by 63%?<\/span><br \/>[ <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/ltc-virtual-healthcare-solution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the Full Case Study<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ]\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>3. Wireless Health Monitoring\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To get biometric data i.e., heart rate and glucose level of a resident, nurses or physicians need to manually record it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Such practice requires close contact with residents which is not advisable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">A wireless health monitoring system is made out of a group of IoT-enabled health monitoring devices such as a smart band and smart oximeter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">These devices regularly monitor the health condition of residents and store data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The caregiver can anytime read this data very easily on a mobile device.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The major advantage of wireless monitoring is that it alerts the caregiver in an emergency &#8211; if the heart rate drops below a set limit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">This could save a life!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">That was just the tip of the iceberg. Technologies can do wonders and save lives!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">You can contact us to make your long-term care home smart and safer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Our team accommodates best healthcare-focused IT experts who have been proactive in the LTC industry before the pandemic hit our most vulnerable!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">We\u2019re proud of helping our seniors using technologies!<\/span><\/p>\n\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/contact\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SYS-Meeting-Image.png\" alt=\"Schedule One-on-One- Meeting\" width=\"914\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SYS-Meeting-Image.png 914w, https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SYS-Meeting-Image-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SYS-Meeting-Image-768x270.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px\" \/><\/a><\/center>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a news release, the Ontario Long-Term Care Minister Merrilee Fullerton announced that residents are now allowed to leave their homes for short-stay and temporary absences!\u00a0 She further said that this will improve the quality of life of residents while ensuring the safety of them. 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