It’s National Health IT Week! From October 2-6, stakeholders from across the Health IT industry will come together to shine a spotlight on the tremendous impact and benefits of IT on healthcare.

We are pleased to be a corporate partner of National Health IT Week as we acknowledge all the ways technology can improve healthcare delivery, access and outcomes. HIMSS and the Institute for e-Health Policy launched #NHITWeek in 2006 — and just look how far the industry has progressed and grown since then. It’s an exciting time to be part of the health IT community.

One of the key topics of National Health IT Week is technology’s role in healthcare transformation. And that transformation can be seen in the way mobile platforms have streamlined processes, reduced costs, improved communication, and changed how clinicians interact with each other and with their patients, ultimately enabling better patient care.

Mobile healthcare technology platforms have come a long way since the iPhone was launched a decade ago, and are now ubiquitous throughout the healthcare system. Smartphones have enabled the development of clinical communications and collaboration mobile tools. This burgeoning technology category in healthcare improves healthcare delivery and safety by connecting the enterprise and increasing efficiencies and collaboration. It is also delivering on the promise that IT will expand access to quality care, increase economic opportunity and make communities healthier.

At Mobile Heartbeat, we’ve developed an enterprise mobile communications platform with the goal of helping our customers transform and advance their processes in order to be more efficient and patient-centric. We partner with our customers’ IT and clinical teams to really understand their needs, their goals and their protocols, and have developed a platform that is responsive to those specific criteria.  And we do that by focusing on these four pillars:

Unified clinical communications – one consistent user experience for encrypted text messaging, secure voice communications and care team presence.

Patient-centric collaboration – immediate access to caregivers assigned to a specific patient, or all patients assigned to a specific caregiver. This enables effective communication for nurses and physicians

Role-based workflow – easily create group broadcast messages by role, engaging the right team members faster and more efficiently.

Connecting the enterprise – integrate high-quality voice and secure messaging with patient-specific medical records, lab results, nurse call, notifications, and more single, intuitive application on each care team member’s smartphone.

Keep up with the discussion and events by following #NHITWeek on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.