A Real Story From a Real Admission
Picture a family member admitted through the ED with double pneumonia and ear infections in both ears — making hearing difficult and communication nearly impossible. The care team was attentive, but stretched thin. She was told her pulmonologist would arrive "sometime between 12 and 8." She was handed a call button and left to wait.
Nervous. In pain. Unable to hear well. Alone in a hospital room with no clear sense of what was happening or when.
This experience isn't unique — it's the default for millions of hospital patients every year. The tools exist to change it. The question is whether care systems choose to use them.
She was nervous, felt terrible, and very isolated. She had no way to reach her care team, no window into her treatment plan, and no simple way to take care of even the most basic needs.
What Should Have Been There
Leading healthcare providers are deploying iPad, IPORT mounting and charging solutions, and clinical patient experience apps like MyChart Bedside and DigiValet to transform exactly this experience. The technology is here. The outcomes are proven.
Imagine that same family member greeted at her bedside by an iPad — wirelessly mounted and charged on her nightstand through an IPORT solution, ready to use the moment she arrived in her room.