Paul Smolke, Industry Managing Director, Worldwide Health, Microsoft
One of the things I was so excited about when I first learned about Sláinte is how their Vitro solution adapts to a health organization’s processes to quickly digitize data and automate workflow. Using Vitro, Sláinte developed an intuitive electronic medical record (EMR) system that meets the specific needs of Operation Smile. It’s quick and easy to learn and it’s enabling them to increase efficiency as well as gain medical insight from the data collected that will help improve care and track outcomes. Operation Smile also hopes that data insights from its EMR will ultimately help the organization identify causes of facial deformities for children. During the Hanoi mission, leaders from Operation Smile and Slainte were interviewed about how Vitro is helping Operation Smile scale and make a greater impact, which you can see in this video.
The first morning of the Hanoi mission, all of the volunteers were walked through how to use the Sláinte EMR on ASUS Transformer 2-in-1 devices running Windows 8. After just that one walk-through, everyone was up and running. Using the solution, the team captured data from 284 patient assessments in just a day and a half. The assessments were conducted at seven different stations, where patients would meet with a nurse and a speech pathologist, get their blood pressure measured, and so on. Information from each station had to be passed to the next, which all went off without a hitch. The fact that 40-plus volunteers were able to utilize the EMR with just a few minutes of training speaks volumes about Vitro’s ability to easily automate workflow. Vitro is an amazing solution because it lets us take the existing paper workflow that Operation Smile has done such a great job developing, and put that on tablet devices without changing the look and feel of the workflow, and so for the clinician who is already used to the paper workflow, they have that same workflow but now it is on a tablet and we are able to digitise that workflow.