Category Archives: Clinical Insights

What inspired you to work in healthcare? "I always feel a need to help" In this edition of Perspectives, we tell the story of Spacelabs Diagnostic Cardiology Portfolio Director Nick Piazza, who was inspired to pursue a career in healthcare after a real-life trauma and recovery. During this time, his caregivers not only saved his [...]

Spacelabs Perspectives: Bringing better care into view “I always feel a need to help.” In this edition of Perspectives, we tell the story of Spacelabs Diagnostic Cardiology Portfolio Director Nick Piazza, who was inspired to pursue a career in healthcare after a real-life trauma and recovery. During this time, his caregivers not only saved his [...]

Advancing Clinical Decision-Making with Augmented Intelligence This AHA podcast explores how augmented intelligence technology has been integrated into clinical decision-making processes at Carilion Clinic, with an eye towards current and future possibilities. Join Dr. Richard Truxillo, Associate CMIO at Carilion Clinic, Kathleen Wessel, VP of Business Management and Operations at AHA, and Spacelabs Success Manager [...]

Predicting the Patient: Using Analytics for Better Outcomes The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is essential for clinical and nursing teams to make critical patient care decisions, but what if even more patient data could be accessed? Through the use of predictive analytics, a patient’s care team can predict where the patient’s condition is heading, which [...]

Is Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring right for your practice? While patients can check their blood pressure at home or at the drug store, clinicians still rely mostly on in-office blood pressure readings for hypertension management. But readings can be inaccurate for a variety of reasons, including white coat hypertension and masked hypertension. At-home monitoring is [...]

Health system’s adoption of the Rothman Index shows decrease in unplanned transfers to the ICU During the COVID-19 pandemic, NorthBay Health in Solana, California, replaced MEWS with the Rothman® Index to improve overall clinical surveillance. After adoption, there was a 16% decrease in mortality rate and 30% decrease in unplanned transfers to the ICU, resulting [...]

Digital Healthcare Transformation – Maximizing Success Healthcare transformation is all encompassing. By embracing all the healthcare projects in an organization that are focused on patient care delivery — transformation projects merge strategy, business, and technology. Hospitals are made more effective and successful by digital technology. It is at the center of how communication takes place [...]

Risk management and its critical role in healthcare delivery Risk management in healthcare includes the clinical and organizational systems, processes, and reports utilized to detect, monitor, assess, mitigate, and prevent risks. By applying risk management initiatives, hospitals proactively and systematically safeguard patient safety as well as the organization’s assets, market share, accreditation, reimbursement levels, brand [...]

Discover the actionable insights hidden in your patient data Healthcare organizations today are flooded with data and face increasing pressure to make sense of it all. The delivery of patient care generates large amounts of patient data for record keeping, regulatory compliance, diagnosis, and treatment. Historically, much of this data has been stored in paper [...]

Using technology to improve the quality of the patient experience Improving an organization’s patient experience requires a thorough understanding of the care that is being delivered. To this end, healthcare systems are constantly evolving to gather more data and are tracking clinical and financial information over time and across settings, to help better understand the [...]