DEVICE INTEGRATION
Improve Patient Safety
Improve Patient Safety and Positive Patient Outcomes
Is your hospital doing everything it can to meet the objectives of quality and positive patient outcomes?
Does everyone within the organization share the perception of safety and how it results in positive patient outcomes?
Is clinical documentation duplicated between departments because of the lack of a single patient problem list for all providers?
Are you running into transcription errors as nurses make paper notes to themselves for later entry into the EMR?
Improving patient safety is one of the most urgent issues facing healthcare today. The patient safety movement began to accelerate its progress in the United States in 1999 when the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that 44,000 to 98,000 individuals die each year from medical errors in hospitals, making it the fifth leading cause of death in the country.
Many healthcare errors are commonly caused by faulty systems, processes and conditions that lead people to make mistakes or fail to prevent them, and are not directly caused by individuals’ errors or recklessness. Evidence shows inefficiencies in the hospital work environment can put patient safety at risk.
Healthcare leaders that realize the organizational benefits of improving quality and patient safety at the same time they lower the cost of delivering care will have an advantage in the marketplace. CareTrends is committed to assisting hospitals ensure their commitments to quality and patient safety.
Medical devices that connect to your EMR include:
Does everyone within the organization share the perception of safety and how it results in positive patient outcomes?
Is clinical documentation duplicated between departments because of the lack of a single patient problem list for all providers?
Are you running into transcription errors as nurses make paper notes to themselves for later entry into the EMR?
Improving patient safety is one of the most urgent issues facing healthcare today. The patient safety movement began to accelerate its progress in the United States in 1999 when the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that 44,000 to 98,000 individuals die each year from medical errors in hospitals, making it the fifth leading cause of death in the country.
Many healthcare errors are commonly caused by faulty systems, processes and conditions that lead people to make mistakes or fail to prevent them, and are not directly caused by individuals’ errors or recklessness. Evidence shows inefficiencies in the hospital work environment can put patient safety at risk.
Healthcare leaders that realize the organizational benefits of improving quality and patient safety at the same time they lower the cost of delivering care will have an advantage in the marketplace. CareTrends is committed to assisting hospitals ensure their commitments to quality and patient safety.
Medical devices that connect to your EMR include:
- Vital Signs Monitors
- Infusion Pumps
- Ventilators
- Pulse Oximeters
- Spot Check Monitors
- Blood Gas Monitors
Benefits
Benefits of Medical Device Connectivity
- TImprove hospital workflow.
- Automate data flow and interface it to the Healthcare Information System application.
- Return nurses to the patient bedside, rather than spending time to manually enter patient data such as vital signs data from written on scraps of paper, into the EMR.
- Reduce errors caused by manually entered data, and provide single “source of truth” for patient ID and other key data.
- Increase patient safety at your hospital. Real time patient information allows clinicians to make more-informed decisions about patients.
- Reduce medical errors.
This process also enables healthcare providers to meet reporting requirements for quality measures required for Meaningful Use.