Lastly, to round out the solutions for patient safety is the ability to have real-time notification of recent safety events and alerts to possible near misses. The aggressive move by healthcare providers to electronically store medical information related to patient medical records, physician orders, pharmacy orders, patient prescription history, labs, etc., has opened up an opportunity to leverage all this information to implement an active surveillance system.
Safetywatch is the future of safety systems –an active surveillance system that utilizes real-time data to capture the occurrence or possibility of an adverse event - including healthcare acquired infections.
The combination of these products will provide the most complete patient safety product offering in the entire healthcare IT industry, providing the best solution to improving quality healthcare, saving lives and preventing harm to patients.