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Extension Healthcare Highlights Engage™ Mobile at the AAMI 2015 Conference
Extension
Healthcare, a leader in alarm safety and event response solutions,
announced today it will be highlighting its recent Engage™
Mobile deployment at the AAMI
Annual Conference & Expo June 5-8. The patient safety-driven
health tech company will demonstrate how Saint
Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado, reduced clinical interruptions
by managing alarms and alerts delivered to nurses on smartphones and
badges.
"Engage Mobile is revolutionizing the way that nurses receive and
respond to alarms, alerts, and other notifications," said Todd Plesko,
CEO at Extension Healthcare. "A clinical communications model that lacks
a comprehensive platform to manage the various medical devices, clinical
systems, and messages deployed to mobile phones will inevitably create a
cognitively taxing environment resulting in interruption fatigue for
nurses."
Interruption fatigue is the result of an uncoordinated approach to
disseminating the various types of communications that nurses receive
throughout a shift. The Joint Commission's ational
Patient Safety Goal on clinical alarm safety requires accrediting
hospitals to have an alarm management plan written and implemented by
year's end. The goal is to reduce sentinel events related to alarm
fatigue by focusing on patient monitor and other medical device alarms.
However, nursing interruptions are generated through a variety of
mediums that include, but are not limited to medical device alarms.
Saint Joseph Hospital selected Extension
Engage™ to manage its alarms and alerts because it is the only alarm
management middleware platform capable of a complete user experience.
The hospital has fully integrated nurse call and transport alerts from
Hill-Rom, patient monitor alarms from Philips (News - Alert) Intellivue, Early Warning
Scoring (EWS) alerts from Philips Guardian and patient engagement pain
requests from GetwellNetwork. These alarms and alerts are sent to both
Vocera (News - Alert) voice badges and Spectralink PIVOT Android-powered smartphones.
In addition to prioritizing and organizing these communications for
message recipients, the Extension Engage™ platform displays relevant
context related to the patient and event as well as response options
that include text messaging.
AAMI 2015 will draw 1,700+ healthcare technology management
professionals including biomedical equipment technicians, clinical
engineers, biomedical engineers, healthcare and hospital IT specialists,
clinicians, and more. Visit booth #234 for a demonstration of
Extension's alarm management and event response solutions or schedule
a meeting in advance.
Extension Healthcare
Extension Healthcare's alarm safety and event response platform isn't
just the next evolution of alarm safety solutions. Extension is
addressing the critical problem of interruption fatigue and is
transforming the way caregivers respond to patient events, and forever
changing the way caregivers communicate. As an enterprise platform
Extension intelligently manages clinical alarms, alerts, orders, labs,
RTLS and other notifications, while facilitating instant care team
communication with patient-centric texting, both inside and outside of
the hospital. Extension Engage Medical Device Alarm Notification has
been granted FDA 510k Class II clearance for secondary notification.
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