Today’s healthcare climate is continuously evolving. As hospitals and medical clinics continue to place an emphasis on premiere patient care in the most efficient ways possible, they’re seeing the universal need for tools that will work alongside of their staff and administration to accomplish those goals. [...]

Four robust data visualization reports within the NOVA product align organizations to allocate resources and the best quality care. MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (October 13, 2022) -- NOVA, a Wachter Healthcare product, announces its commitment to provide healthcare organizations with the ability to make more data-driven decisions, increase ROI and allow for optimal patient care. NOVA (Nursing Observation and Virtual Assistant) solution uses improved data visualization dashboards and delivers a user-friendly, streamlined reporting process which provides real-time, actionable data for hospital staff. Healthcare initiatives and priorities for the acute level of patient observation may require a centralized opportunity to provide necessary intervention periods, tracking and insights for staff by leveraging feature enhancements to the NOVA product line with visualization dashboards. [...]

Hospitals increasingly depend on virtual patient monitoring solutions — like NOVA — to help prevent patient falls and decrease the cost of 1:1 patient sitter programs. But NOVA’s virtual patient observation solutions can impact so many other staffing and patient care goals across the hospital. [...]

As struggles with staff shortages, nurse burnout, and increasing numbers of patients become prominent due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Wachter’s NOVA (Nursing Observation and Virtual Assistant) can alleviate staffing issues, ensuring increased safety and security for patients and healthcare professionals.Among other safety issues, NOVA can reduce dependence on 1:1 patient sitters, protecting at-risk patient populations while optimizing staff allocation. Every year between 700,000 and 1,000,000 patients fall in hospitals, with nearly one-third of these falls being considered preventable. With hospitals facing staffing shortages, a robust monitoring system helps ensure patient safety while allowing one technician to safely monitor up to 12 patients at a time. [...]

What is Nurse Burnout? COVID-19 brought healthcare burnout to the forefront of conversation as hospitals everywhere faced staffing shortages and fought to encourage staff retention. Nurses experience daily challenges like patients who fall, aggressive patients or visitors, long hours with back-to-back shifts, difficult surgeries, death, exposure to COVID-19, and more. These are a few of many factors leading to nurse burnout. [...]

Wachter Healthcare Solutions, Cross Country Healthcare Team Up to Support Patient Care Efforts Using VPO Technology Mount Laurel, NJ — Wachter Healthcare Solutions, a leader in virtual patient observation technology, is partnering with Cross Country Healthcare to place observation technicians and leading-edge remote patient monitoring solution NOVA in hospitals. [...]

Hospitals across the country are looking for innovative healthcare technologies that improves patient care. Hospitals with 1:1 patient sitter programs are increasingly becoming more interested in remote patient monitoring technology. [...]

Nursing Management Congress 2020 took place virtually last week and many attendees had one thing on their mind: how can I best help my patients recover from the COVID-19 pandemic? [...]

Like a thief in the night, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has stolen the lives of so many so quickly. In our lifetimes, a pandemic of this proportion has never before swept the nation with such extreme destruction. [...]

As Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to wreak havoc across the country, a severe shortage in supplies is becoming a major concern among healthcare workers. Without the necessary supplies such as sanitizers, gloves, and masks, it becomes exceedingly difficult to reduce the spread of infection to other patients and staff. Doctors and nurses nationwide are resorting to creating makeshift masks or reusing equipment in an effort to maintain infection control practices amid this crisis. [...]