Sickbay

Medical informatics’ Sickbay product was another one of those systems that we needed to add on that [our EMR] couldn't support. So being able to integrate all of our cardiac monitoring data, all of our indwellings, all of our ventilated data in one space and be able to access that no matter where you sit. One of the things we were trying to address was around some of our critical pulmonary docs who were making decisions that didn't have access to the data. They can actually pull up the streaming data just like if you were in the call center and have access to that and make a real decision among the data that's coming through. And then you know [Sickbay can] integrate into the EMR that's that was another big choice for us because obviously that is our legal medical record that is where a lot of our clinicians spend most of their time and we want to make sure that it's the user experience on on both the clinical side and the patient side was streamlined.

When something happens I get requests from the unit managers and above about what's going on, what happens. It's been really nice for Sickbay because of that event review that now I can give them a little heads up...Here's where the event happened, here's the timing and then provide some basic data rapidly, which I couldn't do before we launched this platform.

Certainly this type of technology is fairly integral to the way I practice medicine. I wouldn't want to go back to an environment where I wasn't able to, for example, remotely monitor my patients in real time.