Nationally-Renowned Patient Safety Champion - Dr. Robert M. Wachter, Joins Hoana Medical's Medical Advisory Board
Posted on: Monday, 13 March 2006, 15:00 CST
Hoana Medical, a medical device company dedicated to manufacturing and marketing products and services in the growing area of patient safety, is pleased to announce that Robert Wachter, MD, has joined Hoana's Medical Advisory Board (MAB). Dr. Wachter is widely recognized as a leader in the field of patient safety, and was recently named the 26th most influential physician-executive in the U.S. by Modern Physician Magazine. As Chief of the Medical Service and co-chair of the Patient Safety Committee at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center, he is widely recognized for his pioneering work that launched the "Hospitalist" specialty and for his in-depth reporting on medical mistakes.
In his role on the Board, Wachter will provide meaningful insight as Hoana looks to continue to build its platform of Intelligent Medical Vigilance products. By providing guidance on good clinical practices, regulatory adherence and scientific rigor, Wachter and the Board are instrumental on issues involving product development and implementation. Hoana Medical's flagship product, the LG1(TM) Intelligent Medical Vigilance System(TM) received FDA clearance last month for distribution in the US. The LG1 aims to improve patient safety by providing persistent measurement of heart and respiratory rate and detecting "bed exit" without touching the patient -- a major innovation in patient care. By allowing a nurse to spot trouble early without needing to be in the patient's room at all times -- the LG1 has the capacity to improve patient safety, hospital economics, and nursing satisfaction.
Dr. Patrick K. Sullivan, President and CEO of Hoana Medical states, "we're delighted Dr. Wachter is on board and we look forward to the contributions that he and the MAB will make as we continue to grow. Enhancing patient safety and improving outcomes is something we all take very personally at Hoana."
Dr. Robert M. Wachter comments, "As we have come to understand the toll of medical errors in unnecessary deaths and harm, we now realize that ensuring safety is largely a systems problem. Technology isn't the whole answer, but it can be an important part of the solution. The ability to track patient's vital signs and position non-invasively and monitor them remotely makes great sense in our efforts to improve both safety and vigilance. And, given the cost of medical errors and the national nursing shortage, it seems likely to be a cost-effective intervention as well."
Dr. Wachter is the editor of two leading web portals for the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). He has published more than 150 articles and three books on clinical epidemiology, health policy and economics, patient safety, medical education and ethics. Last year he received the John M. Eisenberg Award, the nation's top honor for contributions to the field of patient safety. Dr, Wachter also co-wrote the bestseller, "Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes," which exposes the many errors doctors and nurses make that kill nearly 100,000 every year in the US.
Hoana Medical is a medical device company that develops seamless, invisible sensing technology for patient vigilance. Hoana was founded in 2001 as a spin-off of Oceanit Laboratories, a Hawaii-based engineering, science, and research company. Hoana's PSA (TM) technology was developed for the US military as part of a MEDEVAC platform to measure vital signs under battlefield conditions. For more information, please visit www.Hoana.com, or call 808-523-5410.
Source: Business Wire
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