Essentris® OnWatch®

Two recent studies point to alarming trends in today's hospitals: 98,000 preventable deaths occur each year due to medical errors alone and "failure to rescue" is one of the leading causes of death in today's hospitals.

What's wrong? First, it's imperative that medical emergency teams come to the aid of patients before a crisis. Studies show that in the 24 hours preceding a clinical crisis, signs of deterioration were not acted upon in 48 percent of cases. Second, hospitals can't rely on a paper chart for early and rapid care detection and response.

Unfortunately, current tools such as traditional clinical decision support, simple alerting and CPOE have sent the industry down the wrong path towards improved patient safety with minimal or no impact on reducing medical errors.