“In medicine, code blues — which are used in hospitals to indicate that a patient needs immediate resuscitation, usually due to a heart attack or respiratory collapse, for example — often mean death for the patient despite the medical staff’s best efforts to save them.
Mark Farrow, VP HITS and CIO of Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton in Hamilton, Canada, decided to explore using early detection technology to notify medical staff when a patient is heading for a code blue so that the care team could intervene and potentially save that patient’s life.
Nurses at Hamilton would record and monitor a patient’s vital signs, ‘but a lot of times they wouldn’t be entering it into the system in a timely manner,’ Farrow said. ‘It really doesn’t help to put it into the system two or three hours later and say, ‘Oh, your patient is going to have a code blue two hours ago.’”
In the foregoing quote from a February, 2017, TechTarget SearchHealthIT article by Kristen Lee entitled “Hospital uses early warning system technology to help save lives” (http://bit.ly/2qpe1Ml), Mark Farrow, VP HITS and CIO of Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton in Hamilton, Canada, calls for “using early detection technology” to mitigate medical mistakes stemming from what healthcare providers refer to as “failure to rescue” (i.e. — fatal patient adverse event resulting from a complication not recognized in a timely manner or treated appropriately). Such deaths, by definition, are preventable.
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