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Learn how PIVO is impacting a major healthcare system in the United States.
Velano Vascular Named Top Impact Company for 2021 by Real Leaders
Vascular access technology pioneer Velano Vascular was today named a Top Impact Company for 2021 by Real Leaders, the world’s first business and sustainable leadership magazine. Velano was recognized alongside such notable brands as Tesla, Beyond Meat, and Patagonia on the 2021 list for its work making hospital stays more humane and less risky for both patients and practitioners.
Four Leadership Lessons from Healthcare’s COVID-19 Response
In healthcare, the undeniable truth is that impact is measured in outcomes. Communities thrive when health systems and their mission-oriented professionals deliver positive outcomes for both health and life. The margin for error is small, so hard-won lessons become mantras upon which we build public health programs.
Griffin Health Case Study: PIVO™ During the COVID-19 Crisis
In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, hospitals are using strategic measures in obtaining blood samples to ensure safety, minimize the number of staff entering rooms, and improve patient experience through the use of Velano's PIVO, a needle-free blood draw device.
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.
