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Learn how PIVO is impacting a major healthcare system in the United States.
Keeping Patients & Practitioners Safe, Healthy, and Protected in the Years Ahead
In this IMPACT State of Healthcare panel discussion on Keeping Patients & Practitioners Safe, Healthy, and Protected in the Years Ahead, Velano Vascular's CEO Eric Stone talks with America’s First Chief Experience Officer at Cleveland Clinic and Chief Medical Officer of Vocera Communications, Bridget Duffy, MD, and Chief Experience Officer of University Hospitals, Joan Zoltanski, MD, MBA.
COVID-19 Infects Patient & Practitioner Demands, Unsettling the Future of Hospital Operations
Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, the healthcare industry in the United States was in the midst of an intense refocusing on patient-centered care. This evolution was defined by a number of innovations, policies, and even federal reimbursement programs that prioritized emphasis on and impact to the patient experience. It led to changes in everything from the quality of hospital food, valet parking, and room amenities to fundamentally reimagined standards of care for even mundane procedures like blood draws.
Center for Phlebotomy Education: How to Draw Blood from an IV without Hemolysis
Dennis Ernst, Director of the Center for Phlebotomy Education & Velano Vascular advisor, discusses why the One-Stick Hospitalization movement, led by Velano Vascular’s PIVO™️ device, yields enhanced quality and safety improvements: “for patients who have peripheral IVs, blood samples can be drawn with far greater success and with significantly less hemolysis...
PIVO Real World Data Summary
In a summary of collected data from Intermountain Healthcare, Centura Health, and Virginia Mason Medical Center, you'll learn how PIVO is impacting each hospital system—from Intermountain's goal of becoming the nation's first "one-stick" hospitalization to Centura transforming their standard of care to Virginia Mason's drive to reduce CLABSI rates.
Covid-19 is changing the game for health care companies and investors
Even as the health care industry has stepped up with an unprecedented response to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is being undermined by a loss of revenue, splintering of its clinical workforce, and the disintegration of normal as we know it. For health-related entrepreneurs and startups, this means the rules of engagement with their stakeholders, including venture investors, are also changing. The emergence of a new abnormal will depend on several factors.
Protecting Our People: The Fight Against COVID-19
Next week Velano Vascular will announce the launch of a new virtual training and implementation program for hospitals currently using, or newly onboarding, PIVO as part of their coronavirus response protocol / planning. As soon as the troubling early signs of symptoms and initial diagnoses of COVID19 began in the U.S., our team started fielding calls from health systems and nursing leaders asking how Velano’s needle free blood draw and vascular access technologies could aid in their response.
Velano Vascular Makes Streamlined Virtual Training Tools Available to U.S. Hospitals to Aid in the COVID-19 Response
Vascular access technology pioneer Velano Vascular this past week made its new streamlined remote training program widely available for hospitals around the nation. Initially developed with existing partners utilizing its PIVO™ needle-free blood draw device in the fight against COVID-19, the platform is now available for additional hospitals and systems in need of streamlined care.
Sutter Health Case Study: Keeping Your Patients & Practitioners Safe, Healthy, and Protected
Based on internal analysis, by implementing PIVO, a 20-bed isolation unit could realize monthly savings of nearly 1,000 PPE units equaling $7,000 in PPE materials cost reduction...
