Featured Remote Monitoring Articles

41. Reading Hospital Chooses Vocera Collaboration Suite To Enhance Clinical Communication And Collaboration 6/27/2017

    Since 1867, the Reading Health System has provided nationally recognized healthcare to southeast Pennsylvania. The Reading Hospital performs 19,000 surgical procedures each year; has specialty centers for oncology, cardiology, and maternity; houses a Level II Trauma Center; and the system includes a state-of-the-art rehabilitation hospital. Its 2014 distinctions include HealthGrades’ Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence and America’s 100 Best Hospital designations in cardiac care, coronary intervention, critical care, pulmonary care, and stroke care.

42. Halifax Health Ensures Communication Security, Ends Up Reducing Patient Stress And Wait Times 6/27/2017

    Halifax Health, the largest medical provider in east central Florida, with two hospitals, 678 licensed beds, a medical staff of 500 physicians, and a group of community care centers, wanted to increase the communication efficiency between clinicians and physicians, with the goal of an overall better experience for patients.

43. Santa Clara County Hospital Streamlines Environmental Services Workflow, Improves Bed Turnaround Times By Over 50% 6/27/2017

    Santa Clara County Hospital Streamlines Environmental Services Workflow, Improves Bed Turnaround Times by over 50%

44. UAMS Uses Vocera For Fall Prevention And Other Key Processes 6/27/2017

    Patients who fall while in the hospital represent a serious health and economic problem. Fall rates in acute care settings are estimated at between approximately two to eighteen falls per 1,000 patient days (totaling more than one million in-patient falls annually in the U.S.), with up to 44% resulting in some degree of injury. Hospital costs for patients who fall without injury are on average $4,200 more than for non-fallers, and injury falls cost upward of $25,000 per incident. Unfortunately, however, hospitals have not had scientifically validated means for predicting which patients are at greatest risk for falling, or for preventing falls.

45. Experience Beyond Boundaries: The Next-Generation CXO 6/22/2017

    How senior leaders in healthcare organizations are building a more humanized healthcare experience.

46. Relieving Clinician Pain e-Guide 6/22/2017

    The Two-Aspirin Headaches of Tomorrow’s Clinicians The Two-Aspirin Headaches of Tomorrow’s Clinicians and how today’s healthcare technologies are already relieving the pain.

47. It's More Than A Mobile Strategy: Read The CNO Perspective 6/22/2017

    “There is no such thing as a small change – of any kind – in a hospital,” said the CNO. -- She had been through what seemed like years of constant change and pushing for adoption of new or updated communication or monitoring technologies in the patient-care environment. The nursing staff was already stressed from all the change.

48. Vocera Care Rounds Brings Consistency, Accountability To Patient Experience At Genesis HealthCare System 6/22/2017

    Genesis HealthCare System is the largest healthcare provider in its six-county region of southeastern Ohio, and offers a higher level of service than is often available in a community of its size—including open-heart surgery, neurosurgery, and comprehensive cancer services. As part of its commitment to delivering the high quality, compassionate patient care for which it has been recognized, Genesis incorporated a new methodology for leader rounding into its clinical workflows.

49. Sentara Princess Anne Hospital Reduces Alarm Interruptions By 54% In Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 6/22/2017

    Solution Helps Create a More Healing and Ideal Working Environment.

50. Largest Paediatric Intensive Care Unit In The UK Improves Critical Communications And Patient Care 6/22/2017

    Birmingham Children’s Hospital provides the widest range of health services for young patients in England’s West Midlands County and beyond. Located in Birmingham’s historic center, the 361-bed hospital serves more than 90,000 patients annually, with 34 medical specialties, a staff of 3,700, and the United Kingdom’s largest and busiest single-site paediatric intensive care unit (PICU).