Why Connex® EVD Works
The Issue: Timely access to accurate vitals data.
Before you select an EVD system, ask yourself a few questions to help you ensure that your system will help optimize the process:
1. Are vital signs sometimes missing when physicians arrive to review them? Yes »
The Connex EVD system delivers data to your EMR wirelessly from the bedside. This enhances clinical decision-making and helps ensure patient safety, allowing clinicians access to accurate data anytime, anywhere.
Fast Fact: The Connex EVD System interface uses HL7 to ensure compliance.
2. Are vital signs ever documented incorrectly, with typing errors or readings entered for the wrong patient? Yes »
Learn how an automated system of uploading vital signs “helped promote a culture of patient safety” by reducing error rates. Read now.
Fast Fact: The Connex EVD System helps automate patient and clinician ID, eliminates the need for manual transcription, and enables your staff to spend less time on paperwork.
3. Are patient changes ever missed, such as a sudden temperature spike or blood-pressure drop? Yes »
Incomplete vitals documentation often precedes adverse patient events—but introducing an EVD system can help. Learn more.
Fast Fact: The Connex EVD System provides complete documentation on a single screen, including automatic measurements, manual parameters, and modifiers such as body position.
4. Do nurses complain that they didn’t hear about abnormal readings that were taken by others? Yes »
Learn more about the importance of vital signs—and communication between clinicians—in identifying patients’ deterioration. Read now.
Fast Fact: The Connex EVD System provides critical information such as patient-specific alerts and previous measurements to enable quick recognition of abnormal readings.
5. Do users spend a lot of time documenting and searching for vital signs data? Yes »
Wireless, automated vital sign documentation is not only more accurate than manual documentation, it saves significant time. Learn more.
Fast Fact: The Connex EVD System reduced the time spent documenting vital signs by about 50%, and decreased the number of errors by 75%. Get the details.
6. Do you ever hear user complaints about the vitals documentation process? Yes »
Manual data entry into an EMR adds complexity and extra steps to clinical workflow, resulting in decreased staff satisfaction and adoption of your EMR.
Fast Fact: The Connex EVD System eliminates manual transcription. It’s so easy and intuitive to use, it can help improve adoption and use of the EMR among staff members.
The Solution: The accurate, efficient Connex EVD system.
If you answered “yes” to any of the questions, your facility could realize significant benefits from the Connex EVD System:
- Access: delivers data directly to your EMR from the bedside.
- Accuracy: eliminates the manual transcription step to reduce errors in data and patient ID.
- Efficiency: saves significant time, improves teamwork and staff satisfaction.
- Adaptability: workflow options and customizable profile views to work the way you do.
- Suitability: designed specifically for the needs of noncritical care environments.
- Service & Support: includes flexible support, education, and professional services.
