Patients at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital will soon be able to order a movie or a snack, learn about a newly diagnosed medical condition and many other things all from their hospital beds.
A new interactive program at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital (SJMH) will soon provide patients with the means to access informational and educational information and entertainment opportunities right from their hospital bed.
SJMH recent partnered with Skylight Healthcare Systems, the leading provider of interactive patient systems, to install Skylight ACCESS, an interactive entertainment and education program, for each of the hospital’s beds.
Through Skylight ACCESS, patients will be able to access personalized health information, education, interactive and entertainment services all from the their beds, via the same sort of device that hospital patients have long used to operate televisions in their rooms, according to Laurie Terry, the SJMH vice president of business development, marketing and public relations.
The program, which will be implemented in early summer, 2010, will provide each patient with information about their hospital stay, various service requests such as asking for snacks and meal requests; personalized discharge planning, personalized health education, satisfaction surveys, relaxation/spiritual care and entertainment to include pre-selected Hollywood movies. There will be a Spanish language option for patients who do not speak English.