INFORMATION + ACTION is the essence of health care delivery
Improving outcomes drives us to focus on improving care delivery based on the most complete and accurate information available. This is only possible if the right clinician has the right information at the right time. Medical Device Connectivity is essential to providing this information so that caregivers and clinicians can make decisions and act.What We Do
Medical device connectivity is the foundation for the evolution of medical devices to information appliances. These devices gather information that support the automation of workflow, improve patient safety to reduce sentinel events, relieve care interruptions and improve overall efficiency and satisfaction of both staff and patients. We help medical device vendors, startups, and providers with their connectivity options and strategies so that they can improve workflow, provide access to their medical device data and take advantage of integration with their information and EMR systems.
Areas of Focus
- Medical device connectivity integrating medical devices with information systems to improve patient safety, staff productivity and patient satisfaction
- Alarm management, safety and notification, including central monitoring and alarm notification systems
- Surveillance monitoring intended to identify patients at risk of a deteriorating clinical condition
- Clinical communications and collaboration and secure messaging and orchestration
- IT and Biomed governance intended to provide a safety-critical governance framework for point of care safety and system-of-systems reliability
- Real Time Location Systems as enabling technology for many point of care workflow automation, equipment management and patient safety solutions
- Regulatory strategies for manufacturers and providers looking to develop connectivity features or modify existing medical devices
Workflow Automation
Manual tasks can be error prone and often inefficient. Effective workflow automation improves the accuracy, timeliness and completeness clinical data and care delivery.
Increase staff productivity
Automation that delivers fewer steps and less time increase productivity, leaving more time for direct patient care.
Increase Patient Safety
Proper selection and deployment of point of care technologies can directly impact patient safety, reducing sentinel events related to hand-offs, delays in care, failure-to-rescue and more.
Increase patient flow
Efficient admissions, timely discharges and rapid room turnovers can all contribute to increased room utilization and patient throughput.
Reduce Length of Stay
Catching otherwise missed opportunities, like avoiding unnecessary transfers and delays in the discharge process, can reduce patients’ length of stay.
Increased patient and staff satisfaction
The right constellation of point of care solutions can improve HCAHPS scores and staff satisfaction.
Care Delivery Challenges
Patient Care Is Exception Based Unlike widgets coming off a production line, patients have their own diagnostic challenges and response to therapies. Plan we must, but patient-centered care must balance care plans in the face of the inevitable exceptions.
Interrupt-Driven Care Delivery Tasks are frequently interrupted by important events like medical device alarms and a myriad of less critical but important requests from patients, family members and staff. The interruption of critical tasks is a recognized source of stress, human error and sentinel events.
System of Systems A myriad of technologies are found at the point of care. Medical devices, many with their own systems, along with enabling technologies for smart patient rooms, real time location systems, secure messaging, the ubiquitous nurse call system all must reliably work together. Keeping it working as things change over time is another challenge.
Organizational Silos People in many distinct roles coordinate efforts at the point of care to ensure safe and effective patient care. Besides daily care coordination, planning, purchasing, deployment and ongoing use and support must also be coordinated across numerous organizational silos.
