Patient Safety Monitor Suite

The Patient Safety Monitor™ Suite is designed to alert a health provider’s patient safety organization based on any number of pre-defined or client-defined clinical trigger events and rules. It also provides drill-down analysis of root cause and documentation of the analysis and root cause. Unlike a patient record system or EMR, this documentation is stored in a protected area governed by the clients’ PSO, to be used for process and quality improvement purposes only and is not available for discovery in legal cases.

The Patient Safety Monitor Suite drives the biggest burden of disease and costs.

The problem

Safety events represent waste –financially and through avoidable deaths. A mass of challenges prevents most systems from achieving zero harm, including complexity, insufficient data, and burnout. The Patient Safety Monitor Suite enables healthcare organizations to focus relentlessly to identity, understand, and prevent all-cause harm so you can consistently provide safe, high-quality care.

Our approach

The Patient Safety Monitor Suite is a collection of automated patient safety tools that improves patient outcomes and lowers cost. The suite flows from surveillance of events to documentation of pressure injury assessment findings and finally to the aggregation of patient safety findings.

Benefits and features

• Improve patient outcomes and lower costs. Reporting of timely, safety analytics is accessible within the clinical workflow at the time and point of care, enabling proactive harm prevention.
• Free clinicians and infection preventionists to focus on patient care. Automated data extraction and reporting lifts the burden of manual data searching, aggregation, and reporting.
• Automate data collection and reporting. Lifts the burden of manual data collection, data entry, and reporting, resulting in in-time educational opportunities with staff.
• Gain an understanding of performance at-a-glance. Easily filter data to drill down to different levels for further insight on improvement opportunities.

Use cases

A quality officer using the Patient Safety Monitor Suite observes a clinically confirmed rising rate of nursing-sensitive harm events (falls, pressure injuries). He discusses the trend with nursing leaders and unit medical directors, and the group hypothesizes that recent reductions to nurse staffing (nurse:patient ratios) in some care units may be related. Root-cause analysis supports this hypothesis.