Three ways EnsoSleep Helps Simplify the Lives of Health System Executives Responsible for Sleep Medicine
As healthcare continues to evolve and the financial pressures of running a hospital increase, health system and hospital directors and program administrators need ways to optimize their budgets and resources while maintaining high levels of patient care. EnsoData’s artificial intelligence (AI) scoring and study management platform, EnsoSleep, is the solution that can help them achieve all of these goals.
EnsoSleep has been making waves in sleep medicine, impacting sleep technologists, lab managers, physicians, and owners, directors and administrators at private sleep labs as well as hospitals and health systems. While health system C-Suite and VP level staff may not see the day-to-day impact that technologists and physicians experience, EnsoSleep is poised to provide holistic benefits for hospital leaders, delivering value across three key areas.
The benefits provided by EnsoSleep AI Scoring and Study Management is helping health system executives manage their overall budget and provide a support tool to improve staff morale and efficiency, all without requiring a heavy lift from the IT department. Following is more information on the three key areas that EnsoSleep can simplify for health system executives who oversee sleep medicine at their organization.
Budget Management
One of the biggest challenges for health system executives is finding ways to stay under budget. Directors and administrators are often under pressure to cut costs – staff or resources – to stay within allotted budgets. For many executives, managing budgets across multiple departments is tedious, time consuming, and often among the most discussed topics across the organization.
EnsoSleep offers a variety of elements that provide budget relief, depending on how organizations choose to repurpose saved scoring and reporting time. EnsoSleep Study Management streamlines the sleep study process, reduces labor costs, and provides ROI for the organization.
According to Bretton Beine Lane, RPSGT, President/COO of Better Night, “EnsoSleep has decreased our costs, decreased our processing time, improved sleep physician buy-in regarding the accuracy of sleep reports, and increased the scalability of our business model.”
Products that can decrease costs help address one of the most challenging aspects of hospital administration: managing budgets. Health system administrators can leverage EnsoSleep’s efficient and cost-effective platform to eliminate manual scoring, simplify remote log-ins, automate dynamic report generation, and provide time for other revenue generating activities that all add up to saved costs.
Morale and Efficiency Improvement
Inefficient workflows can be a major drain on staff time and resources, resulting in poor morale, overworked team members, and high churn rates, which is something organizations should strive to avoid with the current staffing shortages facing healthcare.
By supporting the work of overnight staff, day technologists, and physicians alike, EnsoSleep makes their lives easier and more efficient. And reducing the workload on staff often leads to reduced stress.
“EnsoData is a good partner and their AI, EnsoSleep, helps our sleep lab run more effectively,” said Dr. Dennis Hwang, MD, Kaiser Permanente SBC Medical Director.
Organizations like Dr. Hwang’s have reported increased job satisfaction and improved retention rates. These factors lead to happier staff and maintaining a stable, productive workforce. Because EnsoSleep automates the sleep scoring process and streamlines the sleep lab workflow, teams have more time for more critical tasks, such as patient care and general business management.
Secure, Simple IT Process
Health system IT departments are often stretched thin. Projects are slated in a long backlog, and unless there is an internal champion, implementations can drag on for weeks, if not months. But with EnsoSleep, the implementation process is smooth and easy.
According to Dr. James Herdegen, MD, of Rush University Medical Center, “When we finally said we were ready, EnsoData stepped up and worked through the implementation efficiently. They communicated directly with our IT team to make sure studies could be transferred to a central location for scoring and that we’d be able to remotely access studies for both labs.”
Unlike many complex solutions, EnsoSleep is a cloud-based software, meaning once the basic application is downloaded on the scoring computer or device, updates require little to no IT oversight. The implementation process typically takes fewer than 10 hours of IT resources, including meetings, reviews, and installations, again, with minimal ongoing support required. Built on top of ClearDATA, our infrastructure security provider who is HIPAA compliant, and HITRUST and SOC 2 Type II Certified, EnsoSleep provides a high level of security and transparency.
For most health systems, there will already be an electronic medical record (EMR) system in place. EMR systems allow apps to engage with patient data via a Health Level Seven (HL7) connection. EnsoSleep provides Hl7 connectivity, allowing users to access sleep data via the EnsoSleep Study Management platform. When sleep studies have been reviewed and scored, data can also be easily uploaded back into the EMR, as well.
And, because it is a web-based application, EnsoSleep supports organizations with multiple locations, as well. Simply download the application on each required computer and start scoring. At this time, EnsoSleep is interoperable with more than two dozen sleep study devices (between HSATs and PSGs), reducing the need for extra integration costs.
Learn More About EnsoSleep
FDA Cleared in 2017, with expanded clearance in 2021, EnsoSleep is more than just a concept, it has helped clinicians review over 1 Million sleep studies to date. As a solution, EnsoSleep AI Scoring and Sleep Study Management has already helped many hospitals and health systems optimize their budgets and streamline their workflows, and it can do the same for your organization.
Support your overnight team with Realtime Scoring, your day scorers with AI Scoring, and your physicians and managers with the Study Management platform. EnsoSleep provides health systems with an efficient solution for sleep teams, which leads to more time spent on patient care, improving patient outcomes, and reducing patient readmissions.
At EnsoData, we are committed to providing our customers with the best possible service and support. To learn more about EnsoSleep and its many benefits for health system and hospital administrators and program directors, request a demo today.
