Texas healthcare facility recognized for revamping alarm management system

Texas Children’s Hospital created a dashboard that collects and analyzes data by area, nurse and patient


Houston's Texas Children’s Hospital has been recognized for revamping alarm management system with a dashboard that collects and analyzes data to help make decisions around alarm settings, according to an article on the Health Facilities Management website.

The hospital was named the winner of ECRI Institute’s 10th Annual Health Devices Achievement Award.  

The alarm dashboard collect and analyze alarm data by care area, by nurse and by patient. Changes soon progressed into patient-specific alarm dashboards that helped the care team to make decisions around alarm settings. 

In its submission to ECRI, Texas Children’s reported that the new data-based system caused an ongoing reduction in the number of alarms as staff adopted a team-based approach to make alarms more meaningful and actionable, the article said.

Read the article.

 

 



February 12, 2016


Topic Area: Information Technology


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