Zebra Roadmap to Building Your Mobility Strategy 5 Steps to Smartphone Messaging Follow the SMG3Rx Roadmap to a Better Smartphone Strategy Step 1: Map the Ways Your Hospital Staff is Communicating Map the constituencies and workflows that will benefit most from smartphones.Assess current capabilities with current applications and devices in useExamine if you have an enterprise-wide system that efficiently allows for both voice and data communicationsRecognize potential room for advancement from outdated or consumer-grade technology Step 2: Identify Your Key Requirements for Smartphone Communications Determine your must-haves for communication among staff at your hospital.Include reliability and roaming to prevent dropped callsPlan for technical and workflow-related security measuresConsider employing a third-party mobile device management Step 3: Pinpoint the Applications and SystemsNeeded to Enable Key Workflows Determine the smartphone technology needs of your key usersIdentify the systems and applications that users accessHave quick access to EHR data and be able to safely share itReduce the time and increase the accuracy of the patient information recording process Step 4: Determine How You Will Manage Alerts and Alarms Manage alarms to help clinicians avoid alarm fatiguePlan for alarms to be transmitted to smartphones that ensure patient safety and prevents alarm fatigueBe able to distinguish between critical and noncritical alarmsConsider employing a middleware company to manage the efficiency of the alarm management system. Step 5: Plan How You Want Your Rollout to Proceed Set concrete short, medium, and long-term goals and establish a timeframe fo your smartphone deploymentA “Big Bang” is an approach for an instantaneous changeover over the entire networkA phased approach allows a group of users to receive devices before other groups throughout the hospitalUnderstand the pros and cons of different implementation strategies before solidifying a choice Download your whitepaper