Tag Archives: Clinical Intervention Data
How to Use Data to Decrease Nurse Burnout and Improve Patient Care
More than one-half of American physicians and one-third of nurses are experiencing symptoms of burnout, according to a 2018 article published in Cureus. That’s a problem because clinician burnout — which is characterized by emotional exhaustion, ...
Healthcare Business and Technology: Using Internet of Things Data to Reduce Fall Risk
Keeping patients safe by preventing falls is a persistent challenge. It’s estimated that between 700,000 to 1 million hospitalized patients fall each year. More than one third of these falls cause injuries. Falls also lead to hospita...
Healthcare Business and Technology: The Surprising Role of the Internet of Things in Addressing Clinician Shortages
The clinician shortage is a dilemma for most hospitals today. It’s projected that the size of the RN workforce will be nearly 20% below projected requirements by 2020 and the physician shortfall will rise to nearly 122,000 by 2032. These short...
Organization Efficiencies with an IoT System
Using IoT to Measure Patient Interactions Many facilities have wondered about disparities between shifts. Are patients visited at the same rate at all hours of the day? Are certain days busier than others? This information has previously been unavail...
Are Your Sickest Patients Being Visited Regularly?
Typically, nurses try to visit each of their patients at least once an hour. This is important to ensure patients are getting the care they need, to reduce fall risks and pressure ulcers, etc. It’s logical to assume that clinicians would visit the ...
Decrease Patient Falls by Measuring Nurse Rounding
Patient falls are a serious problem, affecting between 700,000 and 1 million patients per year in American hospitals.[1] One of the primary reasons patients fall out of bed is that they haven’t been visited by a nurse in a while and they attempt to...
Reduce Shift Fatigue by Measuring Patient Interactions
Do you know how often the clinicians in your hospital visit the patients under their care? Does the frequency of their visits change throughout their shift? Until recently, it has been impossible to know when specific clinicians were visiting a parti...
Improve Patient Satisfaction by Measuring Clinical Visits
Do you know how often the clinicians in your hospital visit the patients under their care? Do individual nurses visit patients about the same number of times per shift? Does the day of the week matter? Or time of day? Until recently, it has been impo...
Making the Invisible Visible: Clinical Intervention Data
Healthcare organizations are struggling. The transition to value-based care is a financial challenge that has negatively impacted profits, and smaller hospitals are being acquired. Nurse/physician shortages and burnout are making it increasingly diff...
Exposure Tracing Made Simple
One of our hospital customers recently had a patient diagnosed with a highly contagious infection that could result in a life-threatening situation if passed to healthcare providers. In this case, the patient was in the hospital for several days befo...