Status Solutions Helps Acute Care Market Improve Patient Care With Situational Awareness Solutions
March 15 2012 - 9:46AM
Marketwired
Status Solutions today announced it is bringing the SARA
(Situational Awareness and Response Assistant) solution to
hospitals in North America with help from HP. With SARA's real-time
monitoring, alerting and notification tools, hospital clinicians
can sharpen their focus on patient care and satisfaction.
SARA is an automated alerting system and awareness engine that
sends voice and text alerts via phones, pagers, emails, computer
screens, PA systems, etc. With SARA's wireless sensor network,
integration tools and mass notification capabilities in a single
platform, a hospital will know exactly what's happening in and
around its facilities to ensure patient safety and security.
The SARA situational awareness solution for hospitals is
engineered to run on HP TouchSmart 9300 All-in-One business PC and
HP Slate 2. In addition to the alarm management and alerting
platform that integrates with such point-of-care systems as nurse
call, telemetry and smart beds (such as Stryker wireless iBed),
this SARA solution set includes SARA's Staff Assignments Module, a
new standardized tool that links alerts to clinicians' mobile
devices.
"In clinical environments where multiple systems require alarm
management, clinicians need to know how to configure alerting on
each platform," explains Suri Raman, director of business
development for Status Solutions. "Managing alerts on multiple
systems can lead to confusion, inefficiencies and distractions that
detract from patient care, ultimately leading to alarm fatigue.
SARA's Staff Assignments module provides hospitals with a
standardized platform for intelligently assigning point-of-care
alerts to communication end points for greater efficiency."
The solution also features SARA's eMessenger, which enhances the
centralization of alerts while extending the ability to communicate
to many HP touchscreen PCs and tablets throughout a hospital.
Browser-based, pop-up alerts can contain information that is either
emergency or non-emergency related. "One important application for
SARA's eMessenger involves code centralization, enabling staff
assigned to the operating rooms to receive automatic notifications
when certain codes occur," notes Raman.
"Combining Status Solutions' situational awareness software with
HP's computing technologies will offer hospitals a powerful tool to
help them take better care of patients and increase their quality
ratings," explains Mike MacLeod, president of Status Solutions.
"With SARA, acute care clinicians can improve their response to
patient alerts and better manage their workload, reducing alarm
fatigue and increasing efficiencies in both the delivery of care as
well as hospital administration including Medicare and Medicaid
reimbursements."
"The healthcare industry continues to undergo systemic changes,
but hospitals that want to succeed by delivering optimal care while
also controlling costs recognize the role technology can play in
helping them achieve their missions," says Chris Mertens, vice
president, Americas Healthcare Practice, Personal Systems Group,
HP. "By offering SARA on HP hardware, we are providing the acute
care market a valuable solution set for improving patient care and
administrative efficiencies."
Contact: Bunny Tharpe Corporate Communications Status Solutions
866-846-7272, x789 Email Contact