Benefits and Cost Savings
- Reduces patient fears and anxiety by educating them on their illness and on corrective procedures.
- Reduces costly re-admissions by educating the patient and family members on post procedure care requirements.
- Helps to prevent law suits through documentation of educational training and comprehension survey results.
- Patient and family members are easily educated using a standard telephone and a television.
- Helps meet all JCAHO requirements for patient education and documentation.
- Consistent information presented at a lower educational grade level helps to insure maximum comprehension.
- Cost of training staf members can be reduced by allowing a staff member to train when they have the time, not waiting for a class to be available. There are additional cost savings by reducing the spread of disease through the ability to train all the staff quickly and simultaneously.
- By reducing patient fear and anxiety through comprehensive education, less complications occur during procedures which result in faster recovery rates.
- Re-admissions cost a hospital millions of dollars a year. This cost can be reduced by 5% - 10% through our patient education.
- Many times a year a hospital will unnecessarily lose a law suit because they have not adequately documented a patient's education. Healthwatch provides complete training and automatic documentation.
- Reduce staff costs associated with patient education by allowing the patient or family member to educate themselves with the Healthwatch system.
- Meeting JCAHO requirements can save a hospital $100,000's of dollars in lost medicare claims
- Hospital costs for additional treatment after a procedure can be reduced through comprehensive patient education.