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Best Practices for Blood Collection and CVC Access to Keep Patients and Staff Safe, Healthy and Protected
Now more than ever, hospitals are experiencing extreme fluctuations in their patient populations and in factors impacting care delivery. Through all of these shifts, hospitals cannot lose sight of their foundational practices, such as blood collection. Although seemingly routine, collecting blood samples safely, efficiently, and in a nearly pain-free experience can make all of the difference for your facilities’ patient experience scores, hospital acquired infection metrics, and holistic clinician operations efficiency.
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.
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...
4 Ways Children’s National Hospital is Conquering Innovation
How has a health system with a 323-bed hospital and a three-person innovation team built connections with more than 100 startups around the globe and attracted a Johnson & Johnson innovation lab to collocate on its campus? And how does it simultaneously challenge its own academic faculty to tackle the quandary of pediatric device innovation?
How a new piece of plastic could help Centura use 880,000 fewer needles next year
A small piece of plastic that Centura Health has rolled out to all of its Colorado hospitals is expected to not only make the patient experience better but improve the safety of patients and staff. The PIVO is a device manufactured by San Francisco-based Velano Vascular. It’s a needle-free, single-use device that connects to a patient’s intravenous line.
Innovation at Intermountain starts with empathy: ‘Design for people,’ says innovation director Todd Dunn
Todd Dunn is the director of innovation for Intermountain Healthcare and leader of the Healthcare Transformation Lab, where he oversees the Salt Lake City-based system's wide variety of new and ongoing innovation projects. One such innovation — and one that will "continue to excite [Mr. Dunn] for a very long time" — is a collaboration with Velano Vascular, an early-stage company developing needle-free blood draws. Since launching the partnership in April, Intermountain has performed more than 400,000 needle-free blood draws and received countless notes of gratitude from patients, parents and phlebotomists.
Intermountain Healthcare: The Nation’s First One-Stick Hospitalization for Blood Draws
By Alan Manning & Eric M. Stone | February 7, 2019 Congratulations, you’ve cracked the code on patient-centric innovation and experience. Your patients have never been happier or expressed greater levels of satisfaction with your healthcare delivery. From room amenities to online cost estimates to mobile scheduling using the latest newfangled apps, they are pleased as punch. But now that the pleasantries are behind us, let’s get serious. How do [...]
Five Ways to Transform Patient-Centered Care Innovations
By Alan Manning & Eric M. Stone | February 7, 2019 Congratulations, you’ve cracked the code on patient-centric innovation and experience. Your patients have never been happier or expressed greater levels of satisfaction with your healthcare delivery. From room amenities to online cost estimates to mobile scheduling using the latest newfangled apps, they are pleased as punch. But now that the pleasantries are behind us, let’s get serious. How do [...]
