How Data from your Nurse Call, Alarm Management, and Voice Applications Can Help you Reduce Unnecessary Interruptions and Improve Patient and Staff Satisfaction George Weldon is the chair of the Alarm Committee of Northern Westchester Hospital (part of Northwell Health, the largest IDN in New York State). Since March of 2015 his day job is
Last winter I got into it with the clinical leader of a consulting company about the difference between alarms and alerts. Over the years I’d come to believe that nurse calls were in many respects no different than phone calls, or alarms from a patient monitor. Consultants, vendors, and hospital customers often get hung
Hospitals from coast to coast are doing everything they can to bring in the latest and greatest technology and put into the hands of their nursing staff. I’ve worked as an RN in this field for over 18 years and have been a huge advocate to introducing clinicians to the latest high tech equipment available
Expanding Clinical Alarm Workflow and Notification Capabilities Justification Recently, I was approached by one of our customers regarding expanding their alarm workflow capabilities beyond the nursecall integration (Rauland–>Connexall–>Vocera) that they launched in 2012. While the initial nursecall projects were driven by a desire to provide timely notifications of patient requests to nursing staff, management learned
CareSight began as a nursing performance analytics solution. Our working premise was to turn all of the mountainous data silos generated from devices and systems into simple, easy to understand and correlated actionable data. The platform allows us to personalize this correlated data into dashboards, charts, graphs and tables tailored for individual roles, presenting the information users want to see,
