VerbalCare Patient: Communicate using picture-based icons app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 4172 ratings )
Lifestyle Health & Fitness
Developer: Verbal Applications Inc
Free
Current version: 1.2.2, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 16 Sep 2014
App size: 18.37 Mb

VerbalCare gives patients a voice. Just like a communication board, this app will improve your overall patient experience and increase your satisfaction. Download this app to facilitate easier and more effective communication between you and your caregivers. We believe healthcare should be patient-centric. You can now own everything about your care, and decide who to share your information with.

In this version of VerbalCare:
• Sentence building with picture-based icons
• Communicate with the people you love and your care team members regardless of location
• Make your patient experience your own, by customizing existing icons and templates or creating your own from scratch
• Create your own threads of conversation
• Record audio files from your doctor’s visits so that you never forget anything again
• Integration with VerbalCare Messenger for HIPAA secure remote communication with family members, caregivers and care professionals
• Clinically-validated, designed and tested by nurses, doctors, and speech-language pathologists
• Professionally designed icons
• Voice-over
• Ability to add favorite phrases and quickly respond to your caregivers
• Image Messaging - Share images with one another. Its a great way to share updates or track things like wounds with your care team!
• Pairing Requests - You dont need to use a QR code to pair anymore. Now you can really connect with the people who matter most whether theyre face-to-face or across the country!

See what theyre saying:
"The latest version of VerbalCare is outstanding: easier to navigate, user friendly, and customizable. The app is an invaluable tool for those with limited expressive language skills." - Jerome Kaplan, MA, CCC-SLP Director of the Aphasia Resource Center at Boston University and Speech Language Pathologist at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

"Most of the time patients with significant speech and language difficulties are left without a means to easily express their own wishes. This app helps to fill this gap." - Marjorie Nicholas, PhD, CCC-SLPm Associate Chair, Professor, Comm. Sci. & Disorders and Associate Director, PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences, Center for Interprofessional Studies and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professionals

"Communication is key to quality care delivery." - Franciscan Hospital for Children

"The patients who have tested it loved it." - Marian Jeffries RN CNS at Massachusetts General Hospital

"The app is awesome. Clear, easy to use and understand, great tutorials and visually appealing. It will serve a very important need for individuals with communication challenges in the hospital setting. What an amazing tool for professionals to offer to patients." - Meghan Graham MS, CCC-SLP, Co-Founder of All4MyChild

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We hope that your patient experience will be forever changed! We have done a lot of research and testing to get to this point, focusing on building the best product for you. Please let us know if theres anything we can do to help by messaging us with your ideas: [email protected]