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Meet Our Founders: How a Code Blue Tragedy Shaped My Mission to Combat Medical Error
This article was originally written by Jeff Dunn for LinkedIn's Hard Cases series, where medical professionals share the toughest challenges they've faced in their careers. Code Blue Tragedy My career took an unexpected turn in 2012 during a routine day at work. I was evaluating one of my critically ill patients in the ICU when a Code Blue was called overhead. A Code Blue means a patient in the hospital has gone into cardiac arrest, [...]
LinkedIn’s Hard Cases Features Jeff Dunn
LinkedIn's Healthcare team interviewed our founder and CEO Jeff Dunn for the LinkedIn Hard Cases series about the tragic experience that led Jeff to start Redivus Health and pursue its mission to combat medical error. "My career took an unexpected turn in 2012 during a routine day at work. I was evaluating one of my critically ill patients in the ICU when a Code Blue was called overhead..." Read the rest of Jeff's story and [...]
Code Blue: Action in Slow Motion
Being called to a Code Blue is routine for an ER doctor in a large hospital. As chair of the Emergency Department at Saint Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., Dr. Marc Larsen says they may see five to ten cardiac arrests each month. But even with running codes frequently, he believes the Redivus Health mobile application can make a difference in patient outcomes. “The app mentally slows you down. It puts things into slow [...]
Code Blue: Taking the Stress Out
Franklin County Emergency Medical Services and Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa, Kan., are committed to high standards of patient care. They partner with The University of Kansas Health System to elevate the level of emergency care they provide for patients in the area who experience cardiac arrest or stroke. As part of the Redivus Health pilot program, these healthcare professionals recently went through training to use the Redivus Health app. They learned how to use [...]
Fast Company: Redivus Is On A Roll
It's not every day that your company gets recognized by Fast Company magazine. Today is that day for Redivus Health. A few months back, we entered Fast Company's 2017 Innovation by Design Awards. This awards program honors the most innovative and disruptive design solutions created to resolve today's most challenging business issues. The competition included more than 2,500 submissions from all over the world across 13 categories. Fast Company selects 299 companies to honor, representing the [...]
Fierce Innovation Awards: Best in Show
The Redivus Health clinical decision support platform was selected as "Best in Show" for the "Fiercest New Product/Service" and as the winner of the Clinical Information Management category of the Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition 2017. Read about the awards and the latest national recognition for Redivus Health. In July, Thinking Bigger Business Media covered the announcement of Redivus as a finalist in this national healthcare awards competition.
LaunchKC Announces 2017 Finalists
Redivus Health is named one of 20 finalists in the LaunchKC global grants competition. Winners will be announced Sept. 15 during Techweek Kansas City. Read about the LaunchKC competition and check out the news stories in the Kansas City Business Journal and Startland News.
Meet Our Team: Kristy Blomquist, R.N.
With more than a decade of experience working as an ICU nurse, serving on hospital Code Blue and sepsis response teams, and training others as a nursing educator and ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) instructor, Kristy Blomquist didn’t imagine being part of a startup company. But when she saw the Redivus Health Code Blue app in action, she was hooked. During the summer of 2016, Kristy participated in several Code Blue simulation lab sessions. She [...]
Code Blue: Bringing Order to Chaos
For Maddy, a hospital ER nurse, her first experience using the Redivus Health Code Blue app came in the middle of a cardiac arrest event. “A code was called in the ER, and the ambulance was five minutes out,” Maddy explains. “I was assigned the scribe role that day for the ER, so it was my job to write down everything for documentation. I started taking notes on paper. “It was also my role to [...]
Code Blue: Beating the Odds
Less than 11% of people who suffer cardiac arrest outside of a hospital survive. — American Heart Association For Dr. Jacob Shepherd, a family medicine resident, using the Redivus Health Code Blue mobile application made a difference for one cardiac arrest survivor. While doing some in-the-field testing for Redivus last fall, Dr. Shepherd was on a ride-along with a Kansas City, Mo., Fire Department EMS team. A Code Blue call came in over the radio, [...]
