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From HealthData Management, A Dashboard for the OR By MargaretAnn Cross, Contributing Editor In most of the operating rooms at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, surgeons, nurses, and anesthesiologists have to ask one another for information that only one of them may be seeing—such as how a patient’s blood pressure is faring—and wait for an answer. In two ORs, however, such information has become visible to everyone in the room. Clinicians can look at a 40-inch flat-screen monitor on the wall to see patient information immediately. “A surgeon may notice that a patient is starting to bleed more and can glance up and know immediately if his or her blood pressure is also decreasing, instead of having to ask the anesthesiologist,” says Dawn Tenney, associate chief nurse for peri-operative services. The surgeon, as well as the nurses and other staff members, have a better view of how the surgery is affecting the patient, she adds. The screens display real-time data pulled from patient monitors and medical devices as well as from nursing documentation software and other information systems. Clinicians can see the name of the patient, the procedure taking place, allergy information, the names of all staff members present in the room, and streams of physiological data, such as heart rate and blood pressure. Continue to full article at www.healthdatamanagement.com ...
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