Abstract
The Joint Commission 2007 Annual Report stated, “Inadequate communication between care providers, or between care providers and patients/families, is consistently the main root cause of sentinel events.”1 Critical components of communication regarding the health status of a patient are the alerts and notifications originating from the various patient monitors; yet according to the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, as many as 99.4% of alarms are false and less than 1% result in change to patient management.2 Looking to 2011, alarm hazards remain an ongoing challenge, listed at number two on the ECRI Institute’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for this year.3 This paper addresses how the use of mobile devices such as the iPhone, the Android smart phone, and the Blackberry with intuitive interfaces and messaging coupled with an integrated alarm management platform will improve clinical satisfaction and operational workflow and decrease risk at the point of care.
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