LiveData OR Dashboard Goes ''Live'' at Massachusetts General Hospital; Visually Integrated Operating Room Will Enhance Patient Safety
Posted on: Monday, 23 January 2006, 12:00 CST
LiveData, Inc. today announced that Massachusetts General Hospital has made its initial deployment of the LiveData OR Dashboard, potentially advancing the state of the art in patient safety and OR efficiency. Visible from anywhere in this first OR and consulted throughout the surgical process, the LiveData OR Dashboard enables surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists and other OR professionals to perform their tasks with the confidence that comes with complete, accurate, and timely information that is available to all.
LiveData OR Dashboard captures key information about the patient and operation that the entire OR team needs to see, and presents it on a 42 inch (or larger) display. The system works across diverse vendors' systems, medical devices and patient monitors, gathering and synthesizing data in real-time, and enabling staff to take-in the state of the patient and operation at a glance The system also archives information for subsequent retrieval and analysis.
"The OR is one of the most complex, time-sensitive, intense and expensive care environments in a hospital," said Marc Holland, Program Director of Health Provider Research at Health Industry Insights, a unit of International Data Corp., Framingham, Massachusetts. "A product such as the LiveData OR Dashboard offers clinicians and hospitals the opportunity to significantly improve patient safety, patient throughput, staff communications and productivity by automating the acquisition, monitoring and integration of critical OR clinical and event information."
The visually integrated hospital is a concept that is taking hold in the medical community. At MGH, the implementation is seen in its Operating Room of the Future, developed through collaboration among the LiveData team, MGH, and CIMIT. The team has worked over the past two years to evolve and deliver the integration software, resulting in a unique, leading edge system that is now being used during six to eight surgeries every day at MGH.
"Having a system like this in the ORF gives us a place to refine our workflow and patient handoff processes," said Dawn Tenney RN, MSN, Associate Chief Nurse, Perioperative Nursing at MGH. "Enabling the entire OR team to see and understand what's happening with the patient at any given time will likely have a significant impact on the way we convey patient information to different caregivers throughout the system."
"Getting everyone on the same page is crucial to building a highly effective, communicative team," said David Rattner, MD, Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery at MGH. "From simple things, like being able to address team members by name, because we can see who's in the room, to safety checks before we start the operation, the system keeps us all aware of the state of the patient and operation at any time."
The LiveData OR Dashboard brings order and understanding to an environment where every detail is critical. "Erroneous -or missing--information can have a chaotic effect," said Jeff Robbins, president and CEO of LiveData. "Visually integrating records, physiological information, OR staffing and other relevant information results in a patient safety zone, and decreases the potential for errors and omissions. We're proud to be working with a pioneering institution like MGH in bringing this technology into use."
About Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital, established in 1811, is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. MGH conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, with an annual research budget of more than $450 million and major research centers in AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer, cutaneous biology, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, transplantation biology and photomedicine. In 1994, MGH and Brigham and Women's Hospital joined to form Partners HealthCare System, an integrated health care delivery system comprising the two academic medical centers, specialty and community hospitals, a network of physician groups, and non-acute and home health services.
About CIMIT
CIMIT brings together clinicians and engineers to improve health care. A consortium with MGH and other Harvard teaching hospitals with scientists and engineers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, the CIMIT model fuses technology and medicine to accelerate investigator ideas into medical practice. Using novel technologies from minimally invasive diagnosis and therapy to medical education simulation, CIMIT teams are dramatically changing patient care. Further information is available at www.cimit.org
About Live Data
LiveData, Inc. is the leading innovator of smart integration technology. LiveData solutions continuously monitor, synthesize and respond to highly complex, multi-faceted processes in real time, spanning a broad mix of distributed devices, diverse vendors' systems, protocols and databases. Founded in 1991, LiveData serves customers in healthcare, electric power and utilities, and manufacturing industries, as well as state and local governments. For more information please visit www.livedata.com
Source: Business Wire
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