title: An eye on safety. With patient safety a top goal, CIOs are embracing wireless monitoring systems that can provide busy clinicians with another set of eyes.
abstract: Under increased demands to improve patient safety, CIOs are deploying sophisticated wireless monitoring systems. Wireless monitors can interface with communication systems and EMRs through integration engines. Installing wireless patient monitoring requires a great deal of collaboration and planning among nursing, IT, biomed and other key departments. Sophisticated monitoring systems enable discreet data to be extracted from the hospital's EMR system and utilized for trending and clinical-decision support. Alarm systems can be customized to fit the needs of individual users and prevent alert fatigue.
authors.forename: Kate Huvane
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Gamble
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States