With medical errors persisting, why aren’t cost-effective safety and quality solutions gaining more traction?
By Melanie C. Dreher, Patricia Quigley, Catherine Rick and Marla J. Weston More than 20 years after the publication of...
Video surveillance and nursing workforce safety
This strategy can benefit both nurses and patients. By Patricia A. Quigley, PhD, MPH, MS, APRN; Lisbeth Votruba, MSN, RN;...
Impact of Patient-Engaged Video Surveillance on Nursing Workforce Safety
Workplace violence (WPV) across all industries, including health care, continues to increase in the United States. The National Institute for...
TeleSitter technology increases patient safety at Covenant Health Plainview
Covenant Health Plainview is committed to promoting and protecting the health and wellbeing of all patients. Because of this, the...
Covenant Health in Lubbock has new video technology to help keep an eye on patients
Covenant has a new way to keep an eye on patients in rooms—even when nurses aren’t there. It’s called “telesitter.”...
S.C. Hospital Uses Innovative System to Keep Patients Safe
For many years, healthcare facilities hired “patient sitters” to watch patients at risk for falls or in harm situations. But...
One Person Safely Monitors 12 Patients, Thanks to TeleSitter
When a patient in the hospital requires 24/7 monitoring — due to a risk of falling, for example — someone...
Beebe ranks in top 10 percent for fall-prevention
Beebe has launched advanced technology in the form of “telesitters,” which are video monitoring devices that transmit patient images to...
AvaSure’s TeleSitter named top 5 Tech Tools by HealthLeaders that could change the way your hospital delivers care
Sometimes the shortest distance between a patient and an improved outcome is technology. As innovations make their way from novelty...
Circle of health: Telesitter helps monitor patients’ well-being when loved ones, staff are away
"Since Jeannie and her family can’t be there around the clock, St. Joseph Hospital in Orange has a high-tech solution...