To additional improve security measures, particularly at residence, Innovive Well being has entered right into a partnership with POM Secure, giving physicians entry to POM Secure’s cellular platform.

“The machine will assist our clinicians out within the discipline to defuse or deescalate a state of affairs and, if obligatory, even join them to 24/7 emergency help,” Kristen Palumbo, Innovive’s chief working officer and chief compliance officer, advised Dwelling Well being Care Information. “The aim of the partnership is to take the entire current security protocols that we now have right here and actually improve them by offering them with assist via this cellular machine. It offers them much more performance than only a cellular phone. Relying on the state of affairs you’re in, it might not at all times be attainable to choose up your cellphone and name 911.”

Innovive, primarily based in Medford, Massachusetts, is a house well being care supplier that treats complicated behavioral well being situations in sufferers. The corporate makes use of nurses and different specialties to assist sufferers. It additionally makes use of a cloud-based infrastructure and a totally built-in EMR.

POM Secure is an organization that gives technology-driven options for private security.

The corporate's platform consists of communications instruments, crime knowledge integration, cellular app connectivity and real-time analytics.

“It has some actually cool options the place you possibly can let somebody know that they’re checking in or out of a location, lock their location for emergencies, provoke dispatch, and even simply provoke a spoof name or a spoof textual content message,” Palumbo mentioned. “The vary of companies that this specific platform presents is de facto modern and can actually assist the work that our clinicians are doing within the discipline.”

Office violence poses a severe threat to residence care staff.

“Dwelling care organizations face distinctive challenges in defending their employees as a result of their restricted management over the environments they enter and the people they work together with,” Nicole McCann-Davis, senior shopper advisor and analysis director at Transcend Technique Group, beforehand advised HHCN.

In accordance with Transcend knowledge, greater than 50% of caregivers have personally witnessed or skilled not less than one incident of office violence or harassment.

Transcend additionally discovered that 25% of respondents didn’t really feel snug reporting office violence or harassment, or didn’t really feel supported by their group in the event that they did.

At Innovive, worker security has at all times been a key focus.

“We had conventional measures in place, so far as schooling, orientation and operational safeguards,” Palumbo mentioned. “However we wished to ensure we additionally gave them a know-how platform that allowed them to take security straight into the sphere. We're at all times in search of methods to reinforce that and herald new know-how.”

Finally, the collaboration is the results of Innovive responding to direct suggestions from its employees.

“This partnership with POM Secure actually got here from the suggestions from our personal medical group, what they wish to see and what they need to have the ability to use within the discipline,” Palumbo mentioned. “We met with them, we talked to them, we gave them plenty of options and this was actually designed by them. It feels good to know that we’re not simply giving them an answer, however we’re giving them one thing that they themselves mentioned they want to see.”