LiveData OR-Dashboard with Active Time Out®
It improves surgical safety by providing a digital safe surgery checklist - recognized by The Joint Commission as a Leading Practice - that encourages active participation by everyone on the surgical team to shine a light on near misses.
Uniquely, OR-Dashboard lets circulating nurses capture important case milestones (e.g. wheels in, first incision, closing) directly and automatically into the patient’s record using a handheld "clicker".
Make the Time Out a Shared, Visible Workflow
OR-Dashboard follows the case from OR setup, through the procedure, to turnover, putting the checklist where the team can see it and sharing each milestone across the perioperative suite.
1. Bring the Checklist Into View
Rather than on a piece of paper only visible to the person reading it, Active Time Out displays the safe surgery checklist on a wall-mounted monitor for the entire team to follow.
2. Capture Events in Real Time
Using a handheld Clicker, nurses interact with the OR-Dashboard display without leaving the patient’s bedside, logging milestones such as wheels in, first incision, and closing as they happen.
3. Share Status Beyond the OR
As milestone timestamps are captured, OR-Dashboard updates other display boards throughout the perioperative suite, letting every team member know what is happening in each OR in real time.
4. Support Faster Turnover
Transport services, PACU, and environmental services can see when rooms are wrapping up and prepare accordingly, reducing delays and improving efficiency with fewer staff.
Benefits of LiveData's Surgical Dashboard
OR-Dashboard enables surgical teams to experience advantages such as:
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Streamlined efficiency: With key patient information displayed for all team members to see, call-outs, interruptions, and distractions are minimized. The board reduces interruptions and keeps teams focused.
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Enhanced communication: Clear, safe surgery checklist tasks and accessible patient data help surgical teams communicate candidly and without reservation.
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Saved time: Because surgical teams can easily update patient records in the OR in real-time without a keyboard or handwritten notes, they can avoid double documentation.
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Improved accuracy: OR-Dashboard improves the accuracy of time-stamped events, allowing team members to easily input data with a click and know the data is conveniently entered into the EHR.
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Increased staff satisfaction: Streamlined surgical workflows increase surgeon and staff satisfaction with more on-time starts and less unplanned overtime.
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Operating room integration: Aggregate and consolidate data from instrumentation and workflows.
One View of What's Happening in the OR
During the procedure, OR-Dashboard can bring together information from:
Patient and case information integrated directly from the EHR gives the entire surgical team a continuously updated view of the case, without anyone having to leave the sterile field to look something up.
Information from your anesthesia system appears alongside case data on the same display, so that the whole surgical team shares one view of where the case stands at any given moment during the procedure.
Data from the physiological monitoring devices already in your OR is displayed where the full surgical team can see it, supporting situational awareness from OR setup, through the procedure, to OR clean.
The customizable safe surgery checklist lives on the same display as everything else, which makes the Time Out a part of the case view rather than an interruption to it, and keeps the team oriented throughout.
Patient Safety and Situational Awareness
Protecting against "never events" - like wrong-site surgeries, retained foreign bodies, or fire hazards - is a top priority for clinicians and hospitals alike. That's why hospitals follow patient safety checklists to ensure patient well-being and safety throughout the surgical experience.
OR-Dashboard comes with prewritten, customizable checklists to ensure every operation proceeds according to best surgical safety practices.
Several challenges can arise when completing checklists, including poor communication, disengaged participants, increased workload for the circulating nurse, and incomplete checklists. Rather than on a piece of paper only visible to the person reading the checklist, OR-Dashboard™ with Active Time Out® displays safe surgery checklists on a wall-mounted monitor for the entire team to see.
After surgery begins, the wall-mounted OR-Dashboard monitor continues to provide situational awareness by displaying key patient information from the EHR, anesthesia system, and other biomedical devices in the OR.
OR-Dashboard surfaces key information about surgeries in real-time, with appropriate detail, and communicated simply, making situational awareness the cornerstone of your surgical safety approach.
Surgical Data Capture
Another challenge in the OR is the accurate recording of surgical timing events. Important milestones can go unrecorded, be added from memory after the case is completed, or scribbled elsewhere to be entered “when there is time.”
OR-Dashboard with Active Time Out’s one-click data capture eliminates handwritten notes. Our easy-to-use Clicker records surgical events in real-time, improving the accuracy of data collection for more useful analysis, and ensuring that milestones are shared with the EHR.
In combination with LiveData Insights™ or your tool of choice, you can ingest the data to document baseline efficiency, then target performance improvements.
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