Vocera Communications, Inc. (VCRA), the leading healthcare communications company, announced this fall that long-time customer MedStar Montgomery Medical Center has once again improved patient care with the launch of a fall prevention program which is supported by analyticsMD's prescriptive analytics solution.
The innovative new initiative combines prescriptive analytics using the hospital's clinical data with the Vocera Communication System, an intelligent software platform enabling real-time alerts and notifications, secure texting, hands-free communication, and integration with more than 75 clinical systems including electronic health records, nurse call and bed management solutions.
With a continuous focus on patient safety and satisfaction, MedStar implemented analyticsMD's prescriptive analytics solution in 2016, gaining real-time, actionable insight into its patient population. The analyticsMD platform looks at both historical and transactional data to proactively notify MedStar team members about fall risks. Now MedStar has a real-time fall alert system that notifies care teams about high-risk patients. These alerts are sent directly to assigned nurses via their Vocera Communication Badge. Because the badges are wearable, staff members' hands are free to quickly help patients at the bedside while also calling for co-workers' assistance if needed.
"We are noticing a downward trend in falls since implementing the prevention program using the Vocera technology in conjunction with analyticsMD prescriptive analytics," said Christiane Brown, assistant vice president of information technology at MedStar. "It's amazing how the right information combined with the right communication technology can have such as positive impact on patient care and safety."
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