Dräger Launches Infinity® Acute Care System Monitoring Solution
Dräger has announced the availability of its breakthrough Infinity Acute Care System monitoring solution in the United States and Canada*. This system pairs a handheld device for monitoring at the bedside and in-hospital transport with a widescreen medical workstation at the point of care. The system provides continuous surveillance, interoperability with Dräger’s ventilation systems, comprehensive patient information at the bedside, and the full suite of Masimo’s rainbow® SET noninvasive Pulse CO-Oximetry measurements, which can help hospitals increase patient safety and reduce costs. The Infinity Acute Care System has been in commercial use in European hospitals since 2010.
Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute Deploys Patient Safety Technologies from KARL STORZ Endoscopy America, LiveData
LiveData has announced that the company’s advanced patient safety platform, OR-Dashboard, has been deployed into production at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. The installation, which went ‘live’ early in May in all five of Saint Luke’s cardiac operating rooms, integrates information from critical clinical processes in the OR, enhancing overall workflow and focus on patient-centered care.
Engaging Patients and Families in Root Cause Analysis of Sentinel Healthcare Events: The Story of Justin Micalizzi
Working with two patient advocates, the Reliability Center has released a webcast that analyzes the sudden, unexpected death in January 2001 of 11-year-old Justin Micalizzi immediately following surgery for an infected ankle. For 10 years, the Micalizzi family—especially his mother, Dale, now a well known patient safety advocate—sought unsuccessfully and without the cooperation of the hospital to discover what caused Justin’s death or at least to elicit a clear and honest pledge that the hospital would commit sincerely to understanding what had happened.
Northeast Georgia Physicians Group Chooses Phytel to Enhance Its Patient-Centered Medical Home Model
HMS Fellowship in Patient Safety and Quality
NPSF Awards Research Grants for Patient Safety Projects
Psych Patients Need Patience in the ER, Average Wait 11 Hours
Another Way to Do Harm
In PSQH, we usually focus on preventing patient harm that results from errors—mediation overdoses, wrong-site surgery, MRI accidents, failure to rescue, etc.—that trace back to systemic problems in healthcare institutions. Those problems include poor communication, environments full of distraction and stress, inadequate training, power hierarchies, to name a few.
Enlivening Biophilia: Sky Factory Promotes Healing for Cancer Patients
The Sky Factory, a fine art and technology company, will exhibit at ESTRO 31 in Barcelona, May 9 – 13.
Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System Released
PROACTOnDemand, the new RCA SaaS Web Application for performing and delivering Root Cause Analysis developed by Reliability Center, Inc., of Hopewell, Virginia was awarded the Product of the Year Gold Award by Plant Engineering magazine readers in the Maintenance Software category.