Published Articles
Automating Patient Safety: Complying with the Joint Commission Universal Protocol (Published in Healthcare magazine, July/August 2009) By Gabriel Spitz, ScD, MSIE, Director of Human Factors, LiveData, Inc. The article assesses modifications to the Universal Protocol and recent technological advances for ensuring full compliance. Established in 2004, the Universal Protocol was updated in 2008, in large part to address the fact that incidents of wrong site surgery had not decreased during the intervening years. View PDF… Synchronizing an X-ray and Anesthesia Machine Ventilator: A Medical Device Interoperability
Case Study (Published at the University of Pennsylvania, Departmental Papers [CIS], 2009) By David Arny, Julian M.Goldman, Susan F. Whitehead, Insup Lee Read about an exploration of the interconnection of a ventilator and simulated x-ray into a prototype plug-and-play medical device system. This work assists ongoing interoperability framework development standards efforts to develop functional and non-functional requirements and illustrates the potential patient safety benefits of interoperable medical device systems by implementing a solution to a clinical use case requiring interoperability. View PDF… A Dashboard for the PACU: Given a Window into the OR, Recovery Nurses Transform Work Methods (Published in Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare, September / October 2008) By Scott Ciesielski, RN, MS; Bethany Daily, MHA; Wilton C. Levine, MD
Clinicians at Massachusetts General Hospital in collaboration with LiveData, Inc. have designed, developed, and introduced an innovative tool to help reduce the level of uncertainty in the PACU and facilitate hand-offs from the OR. Read about how this window into the OR has prompted PACU nurses to transform their work style from reactive to proactive. View PDF…
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital: SCIP Compliance and the Role of Concurrent Documentation (Published in Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare, January / February 2008) By Kevin C. Brennan, CCP, MSA, Chief Perfusionist and Surgery Service Integration Lead. St. Joseph Mercy Hospital; Gabriel Spitz, ScD, MSIE, Director of Human Factors, LiveData, Inc. Read how SJMH is implementing software from LiveData, Inc. that will monitor SCIP compliance and enable “concurrent documentation.” Concurrent documentation will ensure that relevant information is available for analysis and reporting. This in turn will enable staff to assess compliance with SCIP guidelines, identify documentation errors that affect reimbursement, and respond accordingly. View PDF… A Computerized Perioperative Data Integration and Display SystemInternational Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, January 2007(online version) Mark A. Meyer MD MPH, Wilton C. Levine, Marie T. Egan, Brett J. Cohen, Gabriel Spitz, Patricia Garcia, Henry Church, Warren S. Sandberg Read about the Massachusetts General Hospital prototype system that integrates data from surgical and anesthesia devices and information systems, as well as an active radiofrequency identification location tracking system, to create a comprehensive, unified, time-synchronized database of all digital data produced by these systems. View PDF … Clinical Dashboards: Impact on Workflow, Care Quality, and Patient Safety Critical Care Nursing Journal. September 2006 Marie Egan, MS, RN Read about the development of LiveData OR-Dashboard for the Operating Room of the Future (Massachusetts General Hospital) and how this technology could conceivably be applied to ICU units. View PDF … Implementation of a Computerized Perioperative Data Integration and Display SystemMark A. Meyer MD MPH, Wilton C. Levine MD, Marie Egan RN MS, Jeffrey Robbins, Gabriel Spitz, ScDe, Warren S. Sandberg MD PhD; HIMSS, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. February 2006 Through a collaborative effort, LiveData, Inc., Aptima Inc., and Massachusetts General Hospital developed a system that integrates perioperative data from anesthesia and surgical devices and operating room (OR) / hospital information systems and projects the real-time integrated data as a single, unified, easy to visualize display. Read more … Computer Automated Total Perioperative Situational Awareness and Safety SystemsWilton C. Levine MD, Mark Meyer MD MPH, Philip Brzezinski, Jeffrey Robbins, Warren S. Sandberg MD PhD; Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, June 2005 Most patient information from the operating room (OR) passes through various unrelated systems that created it, mostly going unnoticed and unrecorded. Read more … Setting a Research Agenda for Perioperative Systems Design Warren S. Sandberg MD PhD, Timothy Ganous MPA, Charles Steiner ME; Seminars in Laparoscopic Surgery, June 2003 Perioperative care may be considered as a system amenable to industrial design approaches. The current care model is disjointed, prone to breakdown by failure of one component, and hostile to personnel. Read more … LiveData Collateral LiveData OR-Dashboard with Active Time Out™ LiveData Inc., March 2010 LiveData OR-Dashboard™ captures, synthesizes and automatically displays essential patient information―in step with the OR workflow. OR-Dashboard now includes Active Time Out, for safe, fully compliant, and easy to conduct Time Outs. View PDF… LiveData OR-Dashboard™ and the Joint Commission
LiveData, Inc. March 2009 See how LiveData OR-Dashboard™ offers a direct response to the Universal Protocol and National Patient Safety Goals. View PDF … LiveData OR-Dashboard: Nurses Give High Marks for Safeguards and Usability LiveData, Inc., June 2008 View results of a survey that asked nurses to rate various benefits of OR-Dashboard. The survey was conducted at a major teaching hospital, where LiveData OR-Dashboard was installed in a number of operating rooms on a pilot project basis. View PDF… Promoting a Culture of Safety: Nurses and the Making of LiveData OR-Dashboard™LiveData, Inc. March 2007
An overview of the role of nurses in creating LiveData OR-Dashboard installations. View PDF… LiveData Historian™LiveData, Inc. July 2007
LiveData's real-time archiving solution is a secure and flexible high performance tool for capturing, storing, finding, and playing back LiveData OR-Dashboard™ data. Because it functions with video, LiveData Historian™ is particularly valuable for training and education. View PDF>
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