Re: Connectivity ?
Maybe so on a general ward, but a very different picture on intensive care. There is a lot of data collected into ICU electronic records and I have no problem with that being done electronically. But the system should be designed from the perspective of a bad actor, not left wide open for updates over the network.
Alarm / alert fatigue is a massive issue in hospitals. One case I am aware of involved 27 people clicking through an alert about a critical missing medication.
Central notification is not all bad. ICU nursing is 1 nurse: 1 patient. But sometimes they need to help each other out with rolling patients or dealing with a deteriorating patient or checking drugs. Having alarms centrally monitored as well gives a degree of redundancy that is entirely appropriate.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
