While many industries have been outsourcing overseas, hospitals and the medical field aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average length of stay for hospital admitted patients is 4.8 days. The emergency room is a whole different matter with approximately 116.8 million visits per year. That amounts to 39.4 emergency room visits per 100 people. That’s a lot of injuries, illnesses and accidents. With that many accidents already at play, hospitals cannot afford to create their own accidents due to a lack of communication. JTECH’s paging systems are ideal for outpatient hospital visits, of which there are 88.9 million per year. According to the Division of Health Care Statistics’ report: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 82.9 % of visits were made by established patients. This is a huge client base that hospitals all over the country have to care for.

Given that from the patient’s perspective, the most frequently mentioned principal reason for the visit was to monitor the progress of ongoing treatment or follow-up, their experience is probably already rife with some level of stress. By utilizing a wireless messaging system with patients, you are alleviating stress on the part of the patient and the patient’s family. A study by the National Institute of Health found that the spouse of patients report higher stress than the patients did while in the hospital. As a result of these findings, a program of nursing care that focuses on the family during and after care has been proposed. The implementation of patient and family communication systems such as those by JTECH also helps to alleviate family stress by reassuring them that their loved one can be reached by staff as needed.