Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y., and Forest Hills Hospital in Flushing, N.Y., have improved patient safety in the OR through the installation of cameras for remote video auditing.
The two hospitals, part of Great Neck, N.Y.-based North Shore-LIJ Health System, are the only two in the nation using remote video monitoring in a surgical setting.
Through the program, each OR is monitored remotely once every two minutes during surgery to ensure surgical teams are using key safety measures to prevent never events. Additionally, the cameras can be used to alert cleaning crews when a surgery is almost over, thus reducing OR turnover time. Cameras can also confirm if an OR has been cleaned properly overnight.
"Within weeks of the cameras' introduction into the ORs, the patient safety measures, sign-ins, time-outs, sign-outs, as well as terminal cleanings all improved to nearly 100 percent," said Chantal Weinhold, executive director of LIJ, in a news release. "A culture of safety and trust is palpable among the surgical team."
North Shore-LIJ's RVA program in the OR was designed and implemented by North American Partners in Anesthesia in partnership with Arrowsight, a developer and third-party provider of RVA services and software.
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