Voxello continues to be committed to making communication tools quickly available to hospitals across the U.S. Now, as Covid-19 related hospitalizations are hopefully declining, it is important to use the lessons learned during the pandemic to really move toward establishing “cultures of communication” in all our hospitals and ensure the best possible outcomes for the …
Voxello’s mission continues to be focused on providing patients, who face barriers to communication, with the means to summon help and effectively communicate with their caregivers. When hospitalized patients cannot communicate with their doctors and nurses, they are at a much higher risk of experiencing preventable adverse events that result in pain and even death. …
Voxello Supports Communication for Critically Ill Patients Read More »
Human frailty and mortality are a fact of life. Living through the COVID-19 pandemic over the last year with daily updates in the news on the number of critically ill and dying patients in our hospitals has just served as a painful reminder of that fact of life. End-of-life conversations are fraught with a mix …
Supporting End-of-Life Conversations for Those Who Cannot Speak Read More »
Effective patient-provider communication is critical to positive outcomes for hospitalized patients. When patients face barriers to communication, they are at a higher risk of experiencing a preventable adverse event. They are more likely to experience higher stress and be less satisfied with their care. Hospitals can successfully reduce their patients’ communication barriers by promoting an …
How Can You Become a Patient-Provider Communication Champion? Read More »
Imagine finding yourself in a hospital’s intensive care unit. Perhaps you were in an accident or perhaps you have contracted a disease like COVID-19. If you are able to speak or write you would have lots of questions for the medical staff. You would want to have a role in deciding what treatment options should …
Want Better Patient Autonomy? Improve Communication. Read More »
A physical trauma or a serious illness can render you temporarily “locked in”. Nevertheless, there are things that you want to know and things you want to communicate to others. Imagine waking up in an intensive care unit, hooked up to a ventilator and unable to move. You can make out that there are a …
Even Small Gestures Allow Patients to Communicate Read More »
Experiencing a preventable adverse event while you are hospitalized can increase the length of your hospitalization, lead to a long-term disability, and sometimes death. In addition to the pain and suffering that you might experience, the hospital will incur the financial pain associated with the costs they must absorb in treating you as well as …
A Winning Equation: Improving Patient Outcomes and Reducing Hospital Costs Read More »
Bilingual noddle-chat supports bidirectional communication, enabling the patient and the caregiver to communicate directly.
Voxello’s mission directly addresses the communication barriers in the ICU that the Covid19 pandemic has brought to everyone’s attention (www.voxello.com). Imagine yourself waking up in an intensive care unit and on a ventilator. You feel awful and because you are hooked up to a ventilator you are unable to speak. You are alone …
When it’s hard to breathe, it can be hard to speak! In light of COVID-related respiratory illness, a greater number of people need breathing tubes or ventilator support, which takes away the ability to speak. Hospitals and healthcare workers need resources to support communication in alternative ways. Voxello is committed to ensuring that all …