Cloud Computing Could Save Nurses 30 Minutes

Cloud computing helps various enterprises across tons of verticals every day. But this new information that says implementing a cloud solution can help save time and preserve assets in hospitals seems to be the best yet.

The nurses at Children’s National Health System in Washington D. C. are now able to spend an extra 30 minutes with their patients after implementing a cloud solution, whereas previously they would have spent that time with the IT department, according to HealthcareITNews.com.

“A good example of benefits that materialized around cloud computing has been working with our caregivers to make data access easier while maintaining security around the data,” Chad Wilson, director of information security at Children’s National Health System, told HealthcareITNews.com. “Working with our caregivers, we have been able to return time back to them by putting in a system that has ease of access and accomplishes identified use-cases but still maintains privacy and security around the information.”

By adding a badge-tap with multi-factor authentication on the front-end of the cloud-based clinical information system, doctors and nurses are able to get into EHR in about 15 seconds as opposed to 90 seconds, which was their time frame before implementation.

“And that provides two-factor authentication for the EHR but also is married up with our computer services that give caregivers a better user experience, faster response times, and a single platform to access all clinical data,” Wilson said. “It returned 30 minutes back to every nurse. Because the log-in time before took a lot longer. We have it down to 15 seconds for initial log-in and 9-11 seconds for every subsequent log-in. It was taking 90 seconds before to get from the time the machine was started to the time you were able to log-in and then a couple minutes to authenticate through all the systems.”

According to Wilson, the healthcare organization has a healthy cloud computing implementation that’s a hybrid of both public and private clouds. One of the biggest problems they ran into was making sense of the vendor’s contract. Wilson advises that enterprises ensure the contract is fully vetted and identifies, in detail, how secure your data will be.

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