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Extension Healthcare Highlights Engage™ Mobile at the AAMI 2015 ConferenceExtension 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. All product names and brands are property of their respective owners. All company, product, and service names used in this release are for identification purposes only. Follow Extension Healthcare on the web for regular updates:
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