The High Cost of Low Patient Satisfaction Scores [INFOGRAPHIC]

Did you know that the number one patient complaint in hospitals is noise level? So what happens when you give hospital staff smartphones? Much less overhead paging resulting in much lower noise levels. According to the following infographic, hospitals that armed caregivers with smartphones saw a 78% decrease in overhead paging.

Did you know that the number one patient complaint in hospitals is noise level? So what happens when you give hospital staff smartphones? Much less overhead paging resulting in much lower noise levels. According to the following infographic, hospitals that armed caregivers with smartphones saw a 78% decrease in overhead paging.

Hospitals are incentivized to have high HCAHPS scores.  HCAHPS performance  is used in the calculation of the value-based incentive payment in the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program.

Read the HCAHPS fact sheet: HCAHPS 

The following infographic by Voalte (www.voalte.com) shows some of the ways smartphones can help hospitals improve their HCAHPS scores: