The science behind clinical team performance
The case is clear: The coordination and delivery of safe, high-quality care demands reliable teamwork and collaboration within—as well as across—organizational, disciplinary, technical, and cultural boundaries.¹ Studies are increasingly linking the quality of teamwork to the quality and safety of healthcare delivery.²

Most of the research in this area has focused on a) quality, which is the degree to which patients receive treatment consistent with current guidelines and professional knowledge, b) safety of care to minimize risk of preventable patient harm, c) patient experience, expressed as self-reported outcomes, and d) clinical patient outcomes.

Teamwork and care team member wellbeing
A growing body of work also shows that while effective teams not only protect patients from risks and improve outcomes, they also create a more positive, engaging, and resilient workplace for care team members.

Hospitals reporting high levels of teamwork, with clear roles and mindful management of interdependencies, have lower rates of workplace injuries and illness, fewer experiences of workplace harassment and violence, as well as lower levels of staff intent to leave the organization.³ The teamwork climate of a work unit also correlates with the level of engagement that staffs feel in their work. Units with a climate of positive teamwork have staff with a strong commitment to, and sense of, ownership over their job responsibilities.⁴

A closer look at Runway architecture
Your clinical teams can perform at higher levels when specialized decision support systems are integrated
more directly with your EMR.

Take patient measurement for example. Integrating patient waveforms right within your EMR and automating admittance to various monitors throughout a patient’s care path are two great examples of taking work out and potentially reducing costs.

Spacelabs Runway architecture is an enterprise ecosystem that makes integration easier by applying principles that are standard throughout the industry, from the way IP ranges are configured to how traffic is routed between devices, to who is granted what type of access and how.

Flexibility is designed in from the start for easier installation on your existing hospital backbone infrastructure.

Runway also makes it easier for you to apply your own controls, such as antivirus, network access, and active directory architecture for centralized authentications.

Ensuring the privacy and security of patient information along the way is of the utmost importance to everyone at Spacelabs. In the end, it’s about confidentiality, integrity and the local availability of data to help ensure continuity of care, even in the face of today’s cybersecurity threats.