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. [...]
NOVA Virtual Patient Monitoring: Creative Use Cases Beyond Falls
- April 20th, 2022
- Patient Safety, Nursing, Patient Monitoring System, Staffing
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. [...]
Wachter’s NOVA VPO Solution Alleviates Healthcare Staffing Woes
- January 6th, 2022
- Nursing, Coronavirus, News, Patient Monitoring System, Staffing
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. [...]
Supporting Patient Care, Staffing Efforts with New NOVA Partnership
- April 7th, 2021
- Patient Safety, Nursing, News, Patient Monitoring System, Staffing
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. [...]