Episode 10: Data Across the Boards: Vizabli’s Acute Care Solution

Episode Description 

In this episode of CarePoints, host Kenny Schiff sits down with Vizabli’s Ron Nelson and Sarah Cannon. They discuss how Ron co-founded Vizabli to address the need for an acute care engagement solution that integrates data from multiple healthcare systems into a single platform that can serve clinical staff, patients and their families. Vizabli's solution goes beyond traditional patient engagement by bringing together digital whiteboards, mobile applications, virtual access to patient rooms, and real-time notifications for family members. Listen to the episode to find out more! 

Episode Summary 

Kenny Schiff, Ron Nelson, and Sarah Cannon discuss Vizabli, a company that offers an acute care engagement solution. Ron and Sarah discuss how Vizabli was conceived and its mission to improve communication and engagement in hospitals.  

They explain that Vizabli's solution goes beyond traditional patient engagement by offering such features as digital whiteboards, mobile applications, virtual access to patient rooms, and real-time notifications for family members.  

They also discuss current trends in the healthcare industry, including the need for technology to save time and address nursing shortages, the importance of family involvement in care plans, and the consolidation of devices.  

Sarah explains the process of implementing Vizabli's solution, which involves close collaboration with the hospital and integrators to customize the system according to their needs. Ron mentions that Vizabli is focusing on standardizing their solution and enhancing the capabilities of their digital whiteboards and virtual care models in the coming year.  

The episode concludes with information on how to learn more about Vizabli. 

 

This Episode’s Guests 

Ron Nelson, Vizabli 

Co-founder and CEO

An accomplished, high-performance executive sales and marketing leader, Ron has an established history of success in driving overall company performance in global sales organizations by embedding proactive change, building motivated sales, marketing, and sales operations teams, and generating game-changing business models in competitive markets. 

Connect: LinkedIn 

 

Sarah Cannon, Vizabli 

VP of Operations 

Sarah is an experienced business and sales operations manager with a demonstrated history of working in the medical device industry. She is adept at growing small businesses, being agile and working with ambiguity, as well as being knowledgeable in HR, finance, legal, logistics, fulfillment and production. 

Connect: LinkedIn 

Key Takeaways 

• Vizabli was created as a result of its founders experiencing a series of communication obstacles while caring for their hospitalized parents. 

• Vizabli’s platform adds new layers to traditional acute care engagement, including enhanced patient, family, and clinical engagement that allows real-time visual communication and interactive data display across multiple screens and devices. 

• Vizabli integrates a variety of hospital systems, such as Epic, through the Vizabli platform and disperses the data—schedules, care teams, visual alerts—to digital whiteboards, mobile devices, and other locations. 

• Vizabli’s technology addresses staff shortages by saving time, introducing digital whiteboards, getting virtual access into rooms, involving families in care plans, and consolidating devices to save wall space. 

• Vizabli weaves together many elements into an elegant, seamless, customizable presentation, making sure that patients, family members, and the care team all have a consistent level of understanding about a patient’s condition and needs. 

Chapters 

[00:30] Introduction of Vizabli’s Ron Nelson and Sarah Cannon 

[00:53] Vizabli’s origins 

[03:34] What makes Vizabli’s approach to acute care management unique, including patient, family, and clinical engagement 

[05:00] The many aspects of Vizabli’s clinical engagement platform 

[06:53] Vizabli integrates data—such as schedules, care teams, and visual alerts—from a variety of hospital systems and disperses it to multiple devices and displays 

[08:10] What’s driving current trends in the industry and how Vizabli offers an ideal solution 

[10:48] A step-by-step look at a typical Vizabli project, from discovery through implementation 

[13:00] The ongoing conversation between Vizabli and its customers, which allows for ultimate customization 

[14:12] The special value of Vizabli’s presentation: presenting info through “a single pane of glass” 

[15:18] What’s next for Vizabli in 2024 

 

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