Healthcare Focus is Making Interoperability a Reality

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Healthcare Leaders Making Headway in Making True Interoperability a Reality

Collaboration is essential as interoperability goals become more defined

In the May 26th article by Rajiv Leventhal for Healthcare Informatics the focus is interoperability.  John Zaleski, Ph.D., executive vice president and chief informatics officer at Bernoulli, talks about the current state of  “True” interoperability for U.S. healthcare and where it will be in 5 to 10 years.

To read this article please click this link. Clicking the link open a new window and  take you to the HealthCare Informatics site.

Can Alarm Fatigue be Conquered?

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Hospitals find ways to effectively address the problem of Alarm Fatigue.

Conquering the noise.

As of January 2016, TJC’s National Patient Safety Goals mandated that hospitals take definitive steps to implement policies and procedures to safely reduce and prioritize the number of primary and secondary alarms. The ECRI Institute ranked alarm proliferation as the second top technology hazard in 2016,

In the May issue of Healthcare Risk Management entitled “Can alarm fatigue be conquered? Yes, say hospitals cutting the noise” this article addresses the problem and solutions.  To see how  Donna M. Reinholdt, HSC Director of Corporate Risk Management and Compliance, and Connie Dills, Respiratory Practice Manager at HSC are addressing issue click the link below to read the article.

You can see the full article by clicking here.

Bernoulli We don’t just manage alarms, we help reduce them!

The May issue of DOTmed HealthCare Business News has TWO Bernoulli articles

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DOTmed HealthCare Business News is THE source for busy medical professionals looking to improve the health of their bottom line.  DOTmed HeathCare Business News is sent monthly to over 31,000 influential medical executives.

Screen shot 2016-05-03 at 9.18.16 AMThe May issue of DOTmed HealthCare Business News has TWO Bernoulli articles:

1)      “The need to leverage enterprise medical device integration” by John Zaleski on page 32

2)      “Why it is time for an immediate hospital alarm intervention” by Jeanne Venella on page 69

DOTmed HealthCare Business News is THE source for busy medical professionals looking to improve the health of their bottom line.  DOTmed HeathCare Business News is sent monthly to over 31,000 influential medical executives.

About the authors:

John Zaleski, Ph.D., CPHIMS, is executive vice president and chief informatics officer of Bernoulli, a leader in real-time connected health care. Dr. Zaleski brings more than 25 years of experience in researching and ushering to market devices and products to improve healthcare. He received his PhD. from the University of Pennsylvania, with a dissertation that describes a novel ap­proach for modeling and prediction of postoperative respiratory behavior in post-surgical cardiac patients. Dr. Zaleski has a particular expertise in designing, developing and implementing clinical and non-clinical point-of­ care applications for hospital enterprises. Dr. Zaleski is the named inventor or co-inventor on seven issued patents related to medical device interoperability.

Jeanne Venella is chief nursing officer at Bernoulli, and has spent her career transforming nursing care and improving processes. In combi­nation with her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, Venella brings both day-to-day op­erational experience and classroom theory to Bernoulli clients. Her areas of expertise include adult and pediatric emergency nursing, organizational throughput, patient flow and efficiency, process improvement change management departmental de­ signs, redesigns, and physical plant layouts.

Please see the attached DOTmed HCBN Bernoulli articles 2016-05 pdf; the online version of the magazine is also available here: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c1659eab#/c1659eab/1

Middleware Matters published in March issue of For the Record

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A new article entitled “Middleware Matters” Bernoulli Chief Informatics Officer John Zaleski, PhD, CAP CPHIMS was published in the March 2016 issue of For the Record.

Absent universal device standardization, hospitals require middleware. However, critical distinctions will define how those data can be used.

According to John Zaleski –  MDDS middleware will continue to be necessary to pull data from certain classes of medical devices using the vendor’s specification, then translate and communicate them to an EHR, data warehouse, or other information system to support use cases such as clinical charting, clinical decision support, and research. To read the full article online here: www.fortherecordmag.com/archives/0316p28.shtml

For more than a quarter-century, For The Record magazine has been a leading independent resource for industry news and information for Healthcare Information Management (HIM) professionals. For The Record has earned the respect and loyalty of professionals for their in-depth reporting on relevant and timely subjects, including coding, transcription, clinical documentation, EMRs/EHRs, technological innovations, and compliance and privacy concerns.  For the Record has more than 35,000 subscribers.

You can read the full article online here: www.fortherecordmag.com/archives/0316p28.shtml. This link will take you off site.

“The Alarms that Cried Wolf” by Bernoulli CNO Jeanne Venella published in Safety Outlook.

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Bernoulli CNO Jeanne Venella’s  article “The Alarms that Cried Wolf”published in Safety Outlook

Bernoulli Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Jeanne Venella’s article “The Alarms that Cried Wolf” was published in Safety Outlook, the online forum for safety including important news, developments and trends across every industry.  To read the full article please click on this link: http://www.safetyoutlook.com/the-alarms-that-cried-wolf/

 

Bernoulli Platform is the Ideal Solution to Complement Your Alarm Safety Initiative

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The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal requires hospitals to establish alarm safety as a priority. The Bernoulli® platform is the ideal solution to complement your alarm safety initiative.   Read more by clicking this link: 5-Alarm-Mgmt-2-0-l1

WSJ: How remote monitoring offers a high-tech solution to shortage of critical-care specialist.

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From the Wall Street Journal: With critical-care specialists in short supply, remote monitoring offers a high-tech solution.

According to the Wall Street Journal article by Laura Landro an intensivist working in a hospital might be able oversee 10 patient beds but a  doctor and four nurses in a remote command center can oversee ten times that many. To read the full article click the link below.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204488304574428960127233136

Munson Medical Center First in Country to Deploy Advanced Alert System for Infused Medications for Pain Management

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Munson Medical Center is the first to deploy the Alaris Gateway to send clinical data from intravenous (IV) pumps made by CareFusion to the Cardiopulmonary Corp.’s centralized patient surveillance and remote alarm notification system.  To read the full article click the link below.

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