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USA Health employs Redivus resuscitation software to improve code team performance

University of South Alabama (USA) Health System University Hospital in Mobile, Alabama Change is difficult for any organization, but especially for healthcare systems. For any organization trying to improve, change management experts advise focusing on three key areas: People, Process, and Technology. USA Health System in Mobile, Alabama, provides a real-world example of this change management philosophy in action. As the Gulf Coast region’s only academic medical center, USA Health is affiliated with the University [...]

Data reveals how Hilo Medical Center transformed resuscitation care

Hilo Medical Center in Hilo, Hawaii For Hilo Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital and Level III Trauma Center in Hilo, a community of 43,000 on the Big Island of Hawaii, pursuing high quality standards directly aligns with their commitment to improving patient care. “We are a big island, but we are a small community,” said Nicole Vergara, BSN, RN, Code Blue/Rapid Response Team Coordinator at Hilo Medical Center. “The people we care for are our [...]

USA Health chooses Redivus Health to support cardiac arrest resuscitation improvement initiative

As part of a larger performance improvement initiative, USA Health selected Redivus Health’s code blue resuscitation software to facilitate quality goals for the organization and to assist with ongoing staff training. Affiliated with the University of South Alabama, USA Health is located in Mobile, Alabama, and is the Gulf Coast region’s only academic medical center. The 240-bed USA Health University Hospital will be the first facility in Alabama to implement Redivus with its code blue [...]

Drawing inspiration from The Checklist Manifesto

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande Dr. Jeff Dunn worked as a hospitalist for many years before founding Redivus Health. During that time, he was involved in many resuscitation events where the patient was in cardiac arrest. He knows he is not immune to making mistakes during these events and observed others having similar problems. “I often wondered why there wasn’t a decision aid other than the standard ACLS algorithm [...]

Resuscitation Tools for Rural Healthcare Emergencies

We talked to one of the longest running users of the Redivus Health critical care application to get his perspective on its value... Dr. Aaron Neisen Dr. Aaron Neisen is a family practice doctor who practices in the emergency departments of critical access hospitals in the northern part of Missouri. He works through Docs Who Care, an organization that coordinates medical staff coverage at rural and community hospitals throughout the Midwest. The flexible [...]

How Hospitals Can Meet The Joint Commission’s New Resuscitation Guidelines

Starting in 2022, critical access hospitals and hospitals accredited by The Joint Commission will need to follow new and revised requirements for resuscitation care during and after cardiac arrest. The Joint Commission outlined the goal of these changes as “…reducing unnecessary variations in practice and requiring hospitals to adopt a more proactive internal review of data…” “The new and revised requirements aim to strengthen resuscitation and post-resuscitation care processes by reducing unnecessary variations in practice [...]

Creating Digital Health Solutions for Pediatric Advanced Life Support

Cardiac arrest in children is rare, but when it does occur, the stakes are high. 16,000 cases of pediatric cardiac arrest occur each year with a survival rate of 10-15% Imagine treating an infant or young child in the ICU or ER when breathing stops, the heart stops, and a code is called. Time can feel frozen and confusion can set in, yet every second is critical to saving that child’s life. Augmented intelligence in [...]

Redivus Earns One of 11 Spots in Germany-Based Healthcare Startup Accelerator

MUNICH, GERMANY (October 21, 2020) – Startup Creasphere kicks off the fifth batch of its healthcare innovation program where 11 startups will collaborate with their corporate partners and their projects teams on 11 jointly developed pilot projects. “We are looking forward to working with these inspiring startups and dedicated pilot owner teams from our partners. As we are just kicking off the new program, the best is yet to come,” says Frederike Rohr, Director of [...]

Top 3 Features of Redivus Code Blue

The chaos of a Code Blue is familiar to any medical professional who has rushed to assist with treating a patient in cardiac arrest. Redivus Health’s Code Blue app helps calm that chaos, providing clinical decision support and better documentation. This app keeps time, gives prompts for each step of the ACLS algorithm, and documents every intervention provided. It’s a tool designed to make your Code Blue team better. It increases confidence for providers and [...]

Jeff Dunn on Grill Nation

The May 16 episode of Jason Grill's Grill Nation radio show and podcast featured Redivus founder and CEO Jeff Dunn for a candid discussion about healthcare, innovation and entrepreneurism amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. "The mission of Redivus Health is to reduce medical errors and save patient lives. ... Fascinating show this week with an entrepreneur, doctor and healthcare thought leader."— Jason Grill, host of the Grill Nation Show Listen to the audio files of the [...]