Reference hospital for Middle East region helps clinicians save time and reduce errors with vital signs technology from Welch Allyn
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Tuesday, April 30th 2013 [ME NewsWire]
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Middle East Conference and Health IT Leadership Summit
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Welch Allyn, a leading medical diagnostic device company that specializes in helping clinicians improve patient outcomes, will demonstrate the connected device solution chosen by Specialized Medical Center Hospital (SMCH) at booth 106 this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Middle East Conference and Health IT Leadership Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The 450-bed, 140-clinic healthcare system recently announced it had entered into an agreement with Welch Allyn to implement the company’s Connex® Electronic Vitals Documentation (EVD) System in the hospital’s new emergency, pediatric and OB/GYN wards. Medical equipment planners from SMCH chose the Welch Allyn solution to optimize data management, nursing workflows, and ensure accurate vital signs readings.
"We are always searching for the latest technologies that help clinicians work more efficiently and deliver more effective patient care,” said Dr. Khaled Al Sebaiay, Chief Executive Officer of SMCH. "That’s why we are so excited to implement the first Welch Allyn Connex EVD System in the entire Middle East region. The system will not only help us better manage patient vital signs, but also puts us one step closer to being a completely ‘paper-free’ hospital, a model we are implementing to become a reference for environmentally-friendly healthcare delivery in the entire region.”
Clinicians at SMCH will use the Welch Allyn Connex EVD System to capture, document and transmit patient vital signs immediately to the hospital’s electronic medical record (EMR) as they are measured. This solution enables improvements in patient safety and clinical decision making by helping to reduce the risk for routine data transcription errors, which can occur in more than 40 percent of cases where clinicians capture and document patient data, according to recent Welch Allyn-sponsored studies1 at two European hospitals. In addition to data accuracy, the same study revealed that large hospital systems like SMCH can save upwards of 30 hours of nursing time each day when they use the Connex EVD System from Welch Allyn.
"Clinicians are busy people, and routine tasks like capturing and documenting vital signs impact just about every patient, consume a significant amount of time and lend themselves to errors” said Pascal Gand, Welch Allyn vice president of EME sales southeast region. "The Connex EVD System helps healthcare providers save time on each patient encounter while ensuring more accurate vital signs readings and documentation. We are delighted Specialized Medical Center Hospital chose the Welch Allyn solution at its facility as it strives to set the standard for the best in medical care in the region.”
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