Tim Vanderveen: Imagine the Possibilities
I think it is safe to say that greater than 95% of infusion pumps are not associated with the patient for whom the drugs and fluids are being infused. With the exception of a small […]
Alarms
Laurence Pritchett: The Fear of Technology in Healthcare
There is a belief and hope today that technology will solve all our problems. Well, it won’t! Technology can go a long way to help with patient safety and administering the best care to patients, […]
Tim Vanderveen: Don’t Approach the Challenges of Pump Alarms with a Broad Brush
Last month’s inaugural meeting of the National Coalition for Alarm Management Safety prompted me to consider how much we have learned about the effective management of clinical alarms—and how much we have yet to learn. […]
William Hyman: Beep, Beep
There was an interesting thread recently on the listserv for the National Patient Safety Foundation on whether medication barcode readers should beep (or make some other noise) when read. Such systems are typically part of […]
Pat Baird: Solutions in Our Midst
In the wake of the AAMI/FDA Interoperability Summit, it hit me how similar the problems of interoperability are to the problems of alarm fatigue and infusion systems safety — the subject of two other AAMI/FDA […]
Tim Vanderveen: Medical Device Alarms and Hospital Noise
Dr. Pauline Chen’s blog post in The New York Times titled “The Clatter of the Hospital Room” http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/the-clatter-of-the-hospital-room/ has generated very interesting comments, more than 200 the last time I looked. The comments provide perspectives from […]
Doctor Writes About “10 Worst Hospital Design Features”
Val Jones, MD, the president and CEO of Better Health, LLC, a medical blogging network, recently wrote about the new perspective she has of hospitals after spending more than a week at the bedside of […]
