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Fall 2007: OR Optimization |
| Fall 2007 | | In This Issue
| | Message from the CEO I am pleased to introduce LiveData's Heathcare inSights. Sent out quarterly, the newsletter includes updates on educational events, LiveData news, and a topic of special interest. In this issue we discuss OR modernization, with a focus on our area of expertise, visual integration. Upcoming issues will include articles from others involved in the healthcare community. Please consider contributing. We will feature a wide range of topics—medical device interoperability, SCIP measures and reporting, prevention of wrong patient/wrong site surgery, incorporation of prophylactic antibiotic timers into the OR, to name a few. This is an exciting period in healthcare, with many hospitals embarking on ambitious projects, and we feel privileged to participate. Jeffrey Robbins | | CEO's Message | | | | | | | | Website Quicklinks
| | | | | | | | | Strategic Initiatives for OR Modernization  Gaining the full benefit of OR modernization requires a strategic view of hospital requirements and priorities for improvement. This means systematically examining the entire perioperative process to:
Set objectives for improvement in patient safety and operational efficiency (one good example: eliminate unsafe manual grease boards). Determine how to optimize perioperative workflow, addressing key needs of patients, surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses. Consider all related delivery systems that need to work together: instrumentation, information technology, imaging, and communication systems. Address implications for OR physical design and supporting infrastructure (electrical, telecommunications, etc.).
Taking a traditional “bricks and mortar” approach to planning a workflow-optimized OR runs the risk of neglecting advances in healthcare delivery practices and technologies. Hospitals can end up buying old technology and missing major new opportunities. Workflow-dependent aspects of OR functionality—hand-off procedures, patient awareness, updates to documentation, and OR ergonomics—may be left as late-stage decisions or even afterthoughts. This leaves critical decisions in the hands of A/V integrators that can lead to wasteful purchases that go unused. LiveData has developed a unique, five-step process to help hospitals manage the complexity of OR modernization, focusing on visual integration. For more information, read OR Modernization: A Strategic Partnership by CEO Jeffrey Robbins. | | Conference Update OR Manager
Dawn L. Tenney, RN, MSN, Associate Chief Nurse, Perioperative Nursing at MGH, will be the guest speaker at LiveData's breakfast meeting on October 5, during Managing Today's OR Suite in San Diego. She'll present "Transforming the Perioperative Nurse's Practice and Work Environment." Operating Rooms of the Future
LiveData will participate in ACI's Operating Rooms and ICUs of the Future conference, October 18-19, in Philadelphia. Abigail Suberman, Director, Technology Strategy, NewYork-Presybterian Hospital and Phil Brzezinski, LiveData VP of Healthcare Systems will present "Creating the Visually Integrated Operating Room." Lonnie Collins, Lead Technician, Clinical Engineering, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, will be presenting on the same topic at the November ACI ORF conference in San Francisco. Register early as a LiveData guest for either ACI conference and receive a $300 discount. To register… Center for Connected Health
On October 22, LiveData Chairman John Cullinane will serve as symposium co-chair at Building the Connected Health Economy. He will be moderating for "Shifts in the Mix of Public and Private Payers, the Quest for Funding, and Other Challenges in Store for US Health Insurance." | | LiveData Milestones New Installation
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is implementing its Wall of Knowledge pilot program in four operating rooms—two at Columbia University Medical Center and two at Weill Cornell Medical Center. NYP's Wall of Knowledge represents LiveData's comprehensive solution for gathering and displaying all relevant data and images, the visually integrated OR. New Dashboard Feature
LiveData is developing an OR dashboard tool to facilitate SCIP metric tracking at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. The 529-bed teaching hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is installing LiveData OR-Dashboard in 17 operating rooms. Awards
We're proud to announce that LiveData has been named winner of the Fourth Annual MITX Technology Awards. LiveData has also been chosen as a finalist for the MTLC Leadership Awards for Outstanding Technology Development. The Mass Technology Leadership Council will select the winner in October. New In-House Expertise
Increasingly committed to supplying user-oriented solutions, LiveData welcomes Gabriel Spitz, ScD, as our new Director of Human Factors. In his previous position at Aptima, Inc, he was a major contributor to the development of LiveData OR-Dashboard. Gabriel also teaches user interface design at the graduate school of University of Massachusetts-Boston. Company Expansion
To accommodate growth, we have moved LiveData headquarters to 810 Memorial Drive, overlooking the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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