Device Integration Benefits Study
Reallocating Indirect Care to Direct Care
Nursing Technology Fund Benefits Paper Reallocating Indirect Care to Direct Care Increased demands on today’s health care professionals to comprehensively document care provided to patients, often lead to less time spent by the bedside. Shift studies indicate that approximately 19% of nursing time is spent on direct patient care activities. Cerner’s solutions connect mobile vital sign monitors and are able to integrate all applicable bedside
devices. Data then flows directly into the electronic
system where the nurse is able to verify and seamlessly commit it to the patient record. One in twenty deaths in hospital are preventable
with a vast majority citing inadequate clinical monitoring as a contributory factor. Early warning indicators can alert care givers to initiate clinical monitoring processes. Early warning systems can be automated allowing early intervention and ultimately saving lives. Furthermore transcription errors are eliminated and in acute areas significant time is released to reinvest back to patient centred
Benefits Analysis from Naples Hospital, USA The average time spent documenting patient vital signs for nurses and patient care technicians at Naples Community Hospital has been reduced from an average of 1 minute and 42 seconds to an average of 18 seconds. This equates to a time savings of 1 minute and 24 seconds per vitals session, and
represents an 82 percent efficiency gain per vitals round by using CareAware VitalsLink. Prior to implementation,
there was also a substantial gap in time between the taking and documenting of patient vital signs. With CareAware VitalsLink, this data latency has been reduced from an average of 46 minutes and 20 seconds to an average of only 27 seconds. This change represents a
activities. A case study on behalf of the University of Alabama-Birmingham revealed over 3 hours of time savings in a nursing shift through integration of monitoring devices.
Why we are integrating devices:
Reduce errors associated with industry-standard BMDI implementations
Eliminate risky manual documentation
Improve workflow efficiency and patient safety
Implement a solution that associates specific devices to patients, not locations
Integrate with existing Cerner Millennium system
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Continued Benefits Analysis
99% improvement in data latency, ensuring clinicians have the correct patient information at the correct time. In addition to the efficiency gains realised with CareAware VitalsLink, the solution has also enabled clinicians to have access to the most correct and up-to-date patient information, improving care decisions.
Early Warning Systems & Rapid Response Teams Patients discharged from ICU to general wards often experience sub-optimal care in areas where nurses are too busy or lack the critical care skills to identify and respond appropriately to a deteriorating patient (Wallis et al, 1997). Half of post-operative deaths occur on wards, with the majority of these deaths occurring 5 days or more post-op (Campling et al,
1995). It is essential to have real time patient observations in the electronic patient record to provide the critical information needed to run early warning systems without delay.
score. Clinicians and the Rapid Response Team use the information to intervene proactively and escalate care.
Virginia Commonwealth University Health Systems, has reduced mortality in Using this key observation house by 5% and 30% data from the EMR, MEWS/ cardiopulmonary arrests outside of the ICU using the PEWS identifies the most Rapid Response Teams and critically ill and EWS. decompensating patients and assigns each one a
Benefits Achieved
14 minutes saved per clinician per vitals round
82% efficiency gain in charting patient vitals
99% improvement in data latency
5% reduction in mortality
30% reduction in cardiopulmonary arrests
CareAware® is a vendor neutral platform enabling interoperability between medical devices, health care applications and electronic health record systems to seamlessly communicate with one another. The CareAware Workflow Suite of solutions enables any area of a hospital to create an environment where all devices are integrated and contextually aware to ensure the right data is presented in the right format at the right time.
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