Acute Care
Hospitals, Surgical Centers, Physicians Offices, Pharmacies, Laboratories
Status Solutions’ Clinical Application Framework is designed to meet the complex requirements in an acute care environment. The Framework enables overall situational awareness by providing patient safety and alerting, environmental monitoring, asset tracking, health monitoring, workflow management and a bedside communication portal.
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Leveraging Current Infrastructure
At the core of the Framework is the Situational Awareness and Response Assistant (SARA) that integrates to multiple systems to provide a single point of management for enhanced alerting and reporting. Systems can include, Nurse Call, Patient Monitoring, Fire Panels, Infant Abduction, etc. SARA also improves operations by providing two-way patient/ nurse communication, broadcasting emergency codes, environmental monitoring via sensors (i.e. labs, server rooms, restrooms, pharmacies), device tracking and monitoring of various patient devices.
Unlike other providers, Status Solutions subscribes to an open systems or non-proprietary philosophy, allowing best-of-breed hardware platforms to be leveraged in order to build powerful solutions that meet customers’ unique requirements.
Broadcasting Emergency Codes
Emergency codes are used to convey essential information quickly and clearly to the staff to take the necessary action. Typically these code alerts are communicated to a group of people over a PA or radio network through the PBX switch board operator. This introduces unwanted delay in the notification process and can be avoided if the respective code alerts are directly communicated to the staff members on their mobile devices.
Broadcasting emergency codes can be easily and more effectively accomplished by SARA. Within SARA, each of the monitored devices (pull cords, wall buttons etc.) that generates code alerts can be tagged. Then the corresponding alert devices that need to receive the code alerts can be assigned to an alert group. When a monitored device is activated, SARA understands the corresponding code information that needs to be transmitted to the respective alert group on the corresponding alert devices (cell phones, wireless handsets, pagers, desktops via SARA's eMessenger, etc.). This method ensures the accurate delivery of information to the staff for better communication and quicker response times.
Related Case Studies
- Dogwood Village of Orange County
Improves Staff Efficiency in a Skilled Nursing Environment - Galion Community Hospital
Improves Code Reporting with the Status Alert Module (SAM) - Shands Hospital at the University of Florida
Creates a Single Alerting Platform with SARA - Woodrow Wilson Rehab Center
Leverages SARA for mass notification of inclement weather
Click here to read and hear more about how SARA can become your hospital's single alerting platform.
