One Point-of-Care to mitigate multiple risks to patients
Decision-making, especially in an Emergency Department needs to happen instantly. That very moment when a life hangs in the balance, SecondScreen provides instant support, providing clinicians with real-time information, presenting risks and recommendations.
The engaging and extremely fast graphical interface to deliver active risk monitoring, patient specific clinical guidelines and the benefits of advanced clinical decision support directly at the point-of-care.
There are two primary solutions delivered by SecondScreen - it’s about managing the clinical risk exposure of patients during the care process and also providing clinicians with best practice guidance, as they work through the clinical decisions that will ultimately determine the safety, quality and cost of care to patients.
SecondScreen helps eliminate system failures in health care delivery and improves the mitigation of preventable errors that often lead to adverse medical events. It is an effective tool for patient safety improvement and for the continuous delivery of high quality care.
The technology responds to the clinician’s workload and workflow pressures through a fast, engaging and user friendly interface that fits easily into established work practices; the easy touch-screen gives access to critical, high value clinical risk and decision support information. The support this provides clinicians is immense, by helping to dramatically minimize risk, lessening stress and fatigue to improve quality of care and promote a faster time to treatment without disrupting established clinical workflows.
At a glimpse, the responsible clinician (and other members of the care team) can quickly see which patients have diagnostic results that signal a high clinical risk exposure. As soon as test results are available for a patient, SecondScreen displays them, complete with a colour coded risk rating. This patient data can be viewed by ward, clinical unit, clinician or any other customized criteria.
Conclusive evidence of SecondScreen benefits
Clinical acceptance of the SecondScreen system is high, something that has previously proved to be insurmountable for other clinical decision support systems. Voluntary use of SecondScreen is up to 85%; qualitative analysis has shown that up to 30 minutes is saved by each doctor per shift when accessing results.
Multi-centre studies have shown that the combination of Miya’s rich information for clinical decision support and SecondScreen’s delivery of that information dramatically reduces the time to gain and act on critical results, with timesavings of up to 90 minutes (p < 0.001).
The active display of results also reduces in the number of missed results (p < 0 .001). Qualitative analysis has shown that clinicians spend less time on searching for results due to SecondScreen’s fast interface.
Guideline delivery is also dramatically improved with SecondScreen, since all best practice materials are available at one point, rather than using a multiple of “media”, such as paper, intranet and web.
SecondScreen benefits both patient and clinician
- Faster time to treatment. As soon as clinically significant diagnostic data is posted on the hospital's diagnostic systems, it is immediately made known in the treatment area thus avoiding delays in clinical staff having to “find” important clinical data.
- Focus on most urgent cases. SecondScreen features 'At a glance' identification of clinical risk for any diagnostic test, including radiology, pathology and ECGs. Risk levels of test results are easily determined from a distance, so clinicians can quickly identify patients that require urgent treatment without interrupting their workflow.
- Significant clinician productivity improvement.
- Team based approach to care delivery.
- Reduction in repeat ordering after transfers. SecondScreen remembers tests that have been ordered in other locations, so when a patient is transferred to a new location, SecondScreen transfers all tests ordered over the past 2 days along with the patient.
- No missed test results. SecondScreen clearly shows which test results have been read and which have not. Results arriving after a patient has been transferred or discharged are displayed on SecondScreen and require an active clinical response before they are removed from display.
- Reduced risk of litigation
- Escalation of high clinical risk situations through alarms and alerts
