Now included with LiveData OR-Dashboard, Active Time Out provides hospitals with a fail-safe method for ensuring full compliance** with Time Out as well as Sign In and Sign Out surgical safety mandates. 

Human engineered to meet both patient safety and OR efficiency objectives, Active Time Out:

• Automatically displays the hospital’s standardized Time Out checklist when the patient enters the room—LiveData electronic checklists are always up-to-date; they are easy to modify and refine as well as tailor to surgical specialties.

• Engages the entire OR Team in the Time Out process

• Focuses team attention on one checklist item at a time

• Automatically displays the information being verified – ensuring that information is absorbed and reviewed and eliminating the need to search for missing information 

• Asks the OR team to select an option when more than one is available to reinforce accuracy 

• Presents up-to-the-minute information for increased safety

• Automatically archives data

•  Ensures (with interactive clicker) that entire OR staff can participate and be in close proximity to one another for easy verbal exchange

• Displays names and roles of everyone in the OR, promoting active communication among team members

• Automatically displays an individual checklist for each procedure

• Includes a checklist item for reconciling differences, making it part of the standardized process

** Full compliance, according to the Joint Commission, includes carrying out and recording Time Out as well as "active communication among all relevant members of the procedure team" during Time Out.

Active TIme Out at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital was demonstrated on National Time Out Day 2009.