Patients First Products, a leading child safety manufacturer with over three decades of engineering and safety excellence, announces the launch of the Infant Discharge Cart and Infant Mini Transport which will ensure the safety of newborns and their families, significantly streamline efficiencies and revolutionize the overall patient experience in hospital and healthcare facilities.

The company’s Infant Discharge Cart offers moms and newborns a safe, convenient and efficient “one trip” discharge from the hospital or birthing center, which is essential in today’s current environment. The cart offers a practical solution for hospital staff who are juggling a multitude of tasks and are challenged to safely and efficiently transport and discharge moms and their newborns, with limited contact. The Infant Discharge Cart is an essential enhancement to the patient experience, as parents are challenged when trying to carry their newborn along with all of their belongings, gifts and flowers, for what can be a very long distance.

“With the current visitation restrictions in a COVID environment, we have received feedback that mothers are experiencing difficulties at the time of discharge and fathers are not permitted to make multiple trips,” said Paul Giampavolo, President of Patients First Products. “The need for a safe and convenient one-trip discharge is critical,” he added.

The cart accommodates all makes and models of infant car seat carriers, which secure safely into a sanitary docking station. The cart is designed so that it can be used with or without a wheelchair.

Patients First Products is also introducing the Infant Mini Transport, offering the same essential safety features and amenities of the Infant Discharge Cart for mothers of newborns visiting a range of healthcare facility settings. Giampavolo adds, “Moms who have recently given birth have traditionally been challenged to carry their bulky infant carrier, along with all of their belongings to their appointments, which can be difficult, as well as dangerous. Now with the Infant Mini Transport, they can safely and conveniently transport their newborn baby to these medical appointments.” The transport will be made available to outpatient clinics, urgent care clinics, doctor’s offices, medical centers, radiology/imaging centers, blood test facilities, emergency rooms and hospitals.

Similar to the Discharge Cart, the Infant Mini Transport is compact and safely docks the infant carrier in a position close to mom. It is held in place with pull tight side hooks for a safe, secure, and sanitary connection. The Infant Mini Transport is ergonomically designed for ease of use and offers a molded shelf which can store small items including paperwork and handbag. The transport can fit the baby’s diaper bag and other essentials.

Both the Infant Discharge Cart and the Mini Transport work with all makes and models of infant seat carriers. Easy to maintain and sanitize, both the cart and transport are constructed of durable, commercial food grade plastic and stainless steel. They both meet all applicable standards and regulations, and all materials are non-toxic and colorfast. The carts easily nest one into another to conserve floor space.

Suffering an injury that ultimately causes you to experience a traumatic brain injury is a terrible experience. However, when the injury is caused by an assault, it can be even worse.

Whether your traumatic brain injury was caused by an act of domestic violence or a random attack, you can be left reeling with the consequences. Those consequences not only include dealing with the brain injury itself but also many other problems, including anxiety and fear of another attack occurring in the future.

Talk to Close Friends or Family Members

Feelings of anxiety, depression, and fear are common after experiencing an assault that leaves you to deal with a traumatic brain injury or TBI. Getting emotional support is absolutely essential to get you on the road to coping with what happened to you. While you will obviously never completely get over what happened, having the right support system can aid in your recovery to be able to deal with it.

Your close friends and family members are always there for you no matter what the situation. You can keep them close to you and confide in them about the way you feel. If you can manage it, talk about the assault that resulted in your brain injury.

Even if they don’t have much input to offer you, the fact that they are there for you and are willing to listen to you calmly and patiently can help you cope. It reassures you that you have people on your side who love you and will always be there when you need them.

Seek Therapy or Counseling

Individual therapy or counseling with a support group are great options that are available to you if you’ve suffered a TBI after an assault. With individual therapy, you are able to discuss your feelings and fears with a trained, licensed psychologist, psychiatrist, or social worker. These professionals are trained in the area of trauma of all types. Some are trained specifically to help counsel individuals with TBIs. They can help you to get through your pain and trauma and teach you ways to cope.

Millions of people are enrolled in therapy and find that it helps them in many different aspects. Group therapy may be especially helpful because you are part of a group of people who have experienced the same thing as you. This can help with everyone working through their situation as you can all speak of your personal experiences and draw strength from one another in addition to drawing it from your counselor. Around 2.5 million adults and children each year experience TBIs and find that support groups are essential for their recovery.

See About Getting Various Treatments

If anxiety and depression are part of your new normal, you will want to seek treatment for them. In addition to counseling, you may need to be prescribed antidepressants by a doctor. Certain medications can also help with new diagnoses such as adult attention deficit disorder or AADD.

However, not everyone needs a prescription; for some, it might be possible to defeat depression by incorporating a new routine into their everyday life such as exercise, arts and crafts, music, or even a game. Acknowledging that what has happened to you and what is currently happening is real can help you to better cope.

In addition to medication treatments, you will probably need physical and cognitive therapy for your TBI. This is in addition to counseling or therapy related to your attack.

Speak With an Attorney

Finally, it’s important to speak with an experienced brain injury lawyer to learn about your rights. You have the legal right to file a lawsuit against the person responsible for the assault that led to your TBI. An attorney will ensure that your rights are protected and advise you on the best ways to proceed in your case.

Administering anesthesia is a complex process because anesthesiologists must tread a fine line to avoid overdosing or underdosing a patient. Preoperative screening is important, and conscious patients should be questioned if possible if there are no records available before emergency surgery.

General anesthetics used in surgeries target receptors that render patients impervious to pain and insensible while autonomous functions like breathing and blood circulation continue.

Unfortunately, volatile anesthetics don’t bind with protein receptors very long, so anesthesia often contains up to 1,000 times as much concentration of the chemicals as ordinary medicines that bind with receptors more efficiently.

That makes determining how much anesthesia to use relatively complex and quick to change. Anesthesiologists must pay close attention to the monitors throughout the surgery, fine-tuning the mix of gases or using other forms of anesthetic than gas — such as nerve blocks.

Some of the Most Common Anesthesia Mistakes

About 40 million surgical procedures requiring anesthesia are conducted each year. About 250,000 people die annually because of medical errors, and hospitals lose their professional impartiality when facing a tribunal of experts investigating a wrongful death suit. Usually, hospital staff members close ranks and fight to prove that nobody on the team made critical errors.

There are more than 1.5 million adverse drug reactions each year, and when these cause acute or permanent injuries, you need an experienced team of lawyers to refute the evidence of the hospital’s strong team of doctors and lawyers who will try to minimize the hospital’s culpability.

Five of the most common mistakes made in sedating patients include:

1. Errors with documentation. Documentation errors are relatively common, but most of these errors involve mistakes in billing instead of treatment. Documentation of the surgeon’s recommendations for postoperative care are errors that could affect a patient’s recovery.
2. Improper regulation of the IV flow rate. Raising or lowering the IV flow rate can have serious effects on the patient’s response to surgery and recovery time. Accurate communication between the anesthesiologist and surgeon is critical. If the flow rate is too fast or too slow, it may affect the anesthesia. Fluid overload may raise blood pressure and cause breathing difficulties, while setting flow rates too low may prevent the patient from getting enough anesthesia.
3. Dosing errors. Dosing errors are always a major concern because of the delicate balance that must be maintained throughout surgery. Sixteen percent of dosing errors are caused by inexperienced anesthesiologists. About 9.3 percent of errors are due to equipment unfamiliarity, and 5.6 of dosing errors are caused by carelessness, negligence, or haste.
4. Faulty postoperative pain management. Postoperative pain is hard to diagnose and treat properly because each patient responds differently to surgery. The health care team wants to manage postoperative pain without the patient receiving adverse effects from strong opioids. It is difficult to administer drugs at the right time and dosage to avoid all pain, vomiting, infection, nausea, addiction, and chronic regional pain syndrome.
5. Administration of residual anesthetics. Occasionally, patients receive unintentional residual doses of anesthetics from built-up deposits on vein cell walls and residue when the device is flushed. The risk of accidental flushing of anesthetics runs even higher among children, which many experts believe that hospitals fail to report. Doses of residual anesthetics coupled with opioid pain relievers could increase the likelihood of serious side effects.

Determining Liability

Determining liability in a hospital injury case caused by anesthetics can be technical and challenging. If you were harmed by a negligent doctor, nurse, or another medical professional during or after surgery, consider talking to a medical malpractice attorney.

And if medical malpractice caused the death of a loved one, an experienced wrongful death attorney will usually offer a free case evaluation and initial consultation in most cases of hospital deaths caused by anesthesia.

InterSystems, an innovative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical information challenges, announced that it has joined the Gartner Peer Insights Customer First program for its adherence to transparency and integrity in managing the Gartner Peer Insights review process for customers. By joining the Gartner Customer First program, InterSystems is committing to building trust and credibility by soliciting reviews from all customers and recognising the benefits of honest, unbiased feedback.

The company’s flagship product, InterSystems IRIS® data platform, currently boasts a 4.6 (out of five) stars rating on Gartner Peer Insights.* InterSystems IRIS is the only one of the 16 vendors included in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems to join Gartner Peer Insights Customer First program. “The Gartner Customer First badge signifies that a technology provider welcomes both positive and negative feedback from the Gartner Peer Insights community and utilises customer insights to drive product development, service and support.”

InterSystems was also recognised in 2020 with a second consecutive Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Operational Database Management Systems (ODBMS).

“Our motto is and has always been to take care of the customer and build great products,” said John Paladino, vice president, client services, InterSystems. “We’re proud to offer our customers an environment where they feel empowered to share honest, unbiased feedback that informs how we improve our products and services to best meet their evolving needs. We believe that the Customer First badge validates our commitment to our customers and the importance of open lines of communication.”

A cloud-independent data platform, InterSystems IRIS can be deployed on all major public clouds and supports multi-cloud and hybrid environments. InterSystems IRIS eliminates the need to integrate multiple technologies and makes it easier to build high-performance, machine learning-enabled applications that connect data and application silos.

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About InterSystems

Established in 1978, InterSystems provides innovative data solutions for organisations with critical information needs in the healthcare, finance, and logistics sectors and beyond. Our cloud-first data platforms solve interoperability, speed, and scalability problems for organisations around the globe. InterSystems also develops and supports data management in hospitals through the world’s most proven electronic medical record, as well as unified care records for health systems and governments through a powerful suite of healthcare data integration solutions. The company is committed to excellence through its award-winning, 24×7 support for customers and partners in more than 80 countries. Privately held and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, InterSystems has 25 offices worldwide.

The Boston-based hospital strategies to run two pilot of the system in a real-world setting to see how it does in people with heart failing and also asthma.”At the end of the day, we both desire to solve the exact same troubles in persistent illness management– to make sure the ideal option obtains to the ideal person at the best time in order to improve treatment,” she created in an emailed declaration.

Silacci created that Mass General chose AstraZeneca’s platform for its ability to effectively identify at-risk individuals and accelerate evidence-based clinical practice.

The Boston-based hospital strategies to run two pilot of the system in a real-world setup to see exactly how it carries out in patients with heart failure and also asthma.”At the end of the day, we both desire to resolve the very same problems in persistent ailment administration– to make sure the right remedy gets to the right patient at the best time in order to enhance treatment,” she composed in an emailed statement.

Silacci composed that Mass General picked AstraZeneca’s platform for its capability to successfully recognize at-risk individuals and speed up evidence-based professional technique.

Canadian digital health company WELL Health Technologies has acquired medical software company Intrahealth Systems for just over $19 million.

As part of the deal, WELL Health will integrate Intrahealth Systems’ EMR and clinical healthcare software into its services. Intrahealth works with a number of stakeholders, including health systems, public health centers and community centers.

According to the release about the deal, Intrahealth’s software is able to support mobile platforms and telehealth care. Meanwhile, WELL Health is focused on tech-enabled primary care. The company owns a chain network of primary care clinics in British Columbia. It also offers an extended EMR and telemedicine services.

WELL Health plans on making Intrahealth a stand-alone business within its EMR group. The company’s integrated EHR services will be sold alongside WELL’s Oscar Pro product.

“We are very excited about this highly complementary and accretive acquisition as it expands WELL into a multi-product EMR company, boosts our digital health revenue, increases our global footprint and creates numerous cross-selling opportunities,” Hamed Shahbazi, chairman and CEO of WELL, said in a statement. “This is a transformational acquisition for our WELL EMR Group as it positions WELL as a leading international EMR operator.”

M&As are one of the most common exit strategies for digital health companies. In 2020, MobiHealthNews recorded a staggering 64 deals. That number does not account for special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deals.

In terms of the market, WELL and Intrahealth aren’t the only ones looking to bring EHRs into the future. DrChrono, a mobile-friendly EHR, billing and practice management platform, recently raised $20 million.

“We look forward to being a part of the larger WELL Health ecosystem, which enables us to leverage the management, capital allocation and shared services expertise of WELL while continuing to grow and serve our customers,” Dr. Mark Matthews, CEO of Intrahealth, said in a statement. “WELL is aligned with our vision of global expansion and provides Intrahealth with additional products and services for our customers.”

Tia, the modern medical home for women, and CommonSpirit Health, the nation’s largest nonprofit health system, today announced an innovative, first-of-its-kind partnership to create a new front door to healthcare for women. The deal enables the two healthcare leaders to launch Tia-branded women’s health clinics together that will provide comprehensive, blended virtual and in-person care – with plans for the first clinic in Phoenix where CommonSpirit operates multiple Dignity Health medical centers.

The CommonSpirit relationship is Tia’s first major partnership with a national health system. The joint venture clinics will combine a multitude of services and practitioners into a one-stop shop for women that fuses gynecological care and primary care. Tia will provide its distinctive care model, staffing and technology infrastructure, while CommonSpirit will connect Tia to patients, health plan partners, and hospital and specialty care access.

“Tia is on a mission to change the fragmented nature of women’s care with a personalized, distinctly female model that guides women at every age and stage of their physical, mental and emotional health, with an emphasis on prevention,” said Carolyn Witte, co-founder and CEO of Tia. “CommonSpirit was the ideal partner to help us scale our proven model nationally with geographic reach across 21 states from coast to coast, recognized clinical excellence, and an industry-leading commitment to health equity.”

Tia and CommonSpirit have a shared vision to “treat the whole person, not just the patient” — replacing one-size-fits-all medicine with a people-based approach to care that recognizes that different populations have different clinical, psychological and experiential healthcare needs.

Tia’s signature Well-Woman experience includes regular primary care checkups and annual gynecological exams, while also offering mental health support, nutrition counseling, acupuncture, along with other evidence-backed wellness services. Tia’s proprietary technology and integrated care coordination platforms enable seamless, continuous care across all aspects of a woman’s healthcare journey, ensuring a smooth and complete transition that delivers clinical quality for patients, while also alleviating provider burdens that contribute to burnout. Through Tia’s partnership with CommonSpirit, the care continuity will extend to hospital and specialty care.

The future of healthcare is personalized, and patients are seeking unique models to serve their distinct needs. Tia’s approach to care is designed to make it easier for women to access health care and is directly aligned to our values to provide compassionate, unified care that is centered on excellence,” said Rich Roth, CommonSpirit chief strategic innovation officer. “Women’s health is not defined by one phase in their lives, and by focusing on exceptional care that is designed specifically for women and led by women, we can build a care model that benefits them over the course of a lifetime.” With women controlling more than 80 percent of the healthcare decision-making for themselves, partners, children and parents, Tia and CommonSpirit recognize that when healthcare works better for women, it works better for everyone.

Tia has grown exponentially over the last few years and recently closed a $24.3 million Series A funding round last May, representing one of the largest Series A financing led by a female CEO in 2020. With current locations in New York City and Los Angeles, Tia plans to expand to multiple other markets this year.

Tia’s care model, which engages women early on and focuses on integrated, preventive health, has been shown to reduce the cost of care by up to 40 percent as compared to a typical gynecology practice.

The initial Tia-CommonSpirit pilot will launch “virtual-first” in Spring 2021, followed by its first brick-and-mortar clinic opening this October in Phoenix with expansions in Arizona and other CommonSpirit markets over the next few years.

About Tia
Founded in 2017 by Carolyn Witte and Felicity Yost, Tia is a full-service women’s healthcare platform architecting a new, women-centric model of care with a blend of in-person and virtual services. The company has built a personalized healthcare model by fusing OB/GYN, primary care, mental health and evidenced-based wellness services into an integrative experience that’s convenient, collaborative and focused on prevention. From the Tia health advisor app to the NYC Tia Clinic, Tia makes women healthier, providers happier, and the business of care delivery stronger.

About CommonSpirit Health
CommonSpirit Health is a nonprofit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. It was created in February 2019 by Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health. CommonSpirit is committed to creating healthier communities, delivering exceptional patient care, and ensuring every person has access to quality health care. With its national office in Chicago and a team of approximately 150,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians, CommonSpirit Health operates 139 hospitals and more than 1,000 care sites across 21 states.

Tecsys Inc. (TSX: TCS), an industry-leading supply chain management software company, is pleased to announce that Spectrum Health, western Michigan’s largest employer and one of the Gartner Top 25 Healthcare Supply Chains for three years running, has upgraded its Tecsys environment to accommodate its growing network of supply chain and warehousing demands. The new ecosystem includes a SaaS supply chain management platform with distribution management, warehouse management and delivery management, with robust connectors to Spectrum Health’s Workday ERP.

Spectrum Health is a not-for-profit award-winning $8 billion integrated health system comprised of 14 hospitals and 150 ambulatory sites. Its supply chain organization services a diverse network of hospitals, treatment facilities, outpatient centers and urgent care sites across western Michigan. It is recognized among its peers as having a talented supply chain team that is building clinically aligned supply chain capabilities quickly and effectively. With this investment in Tecsys, Spectrum Health is equipped to adapt to and handle market unpredictability, securing its position as a forward-looking supply chain organization.

“Integrating the Tecsys warehouse management system to our newly launched Workday ERP provides a modern technology ecosystem to manage critical supply chain processes,” says Sarai Vanderwood, director, Distribution & Inventory at Spectrum Health. “This allows our team to spend more time supporting our caregivers as we realize the benefits of a modernized end-to-end process. Supply chain at Spectrum Health has transformed from a tactical expense center to a strategic business enabler and having leading tools has been a major part of that transformation. We look forward to further efficiency as Spectrum Health, Tecsys and Workday collaborate to solve challenges facing modern healthcare supply chains.”

“We are delighted to serve as Spectrum Health’s supply chain technology provider as it continues to earn accolades and set benchmarks in the industry,” says Peter Brereton, president and CEO of Tecsys. “This is a powerful example of how strong teams and best-in-class enterprise solutions can work together to support quality patient care while driving down risk and cost in the supply chain.”

About Spectrum Health

Spectrum Health System, a not-for-profit, integrated health system, is committed to improving the health and wellness of our communities. We live our mission every day with 31,000 compassionate professionals, 4,600 medical staff experts, 3,300 committed volunteers and a health plan serving more than 1 million members. Our talented physicians and caregivers are privileged to offer a full continuum of care and wellness services to our communities through 14 hospitals, including Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, 150 ambulatory sites and telehealth offerings. We pursue health care solutions for today and tomorrow that diversify our offerings. Locally-governed and based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, our health system provided $550 million in community benefit in calendar year 2019. Thanks to the generosity of our communities, we received $37 million in philanthropy to support research, academics, innovation and clinical care. Spectrum Health has been recognized as one of the nation’s 15 Top Health Systems by Truven Health Analytics®, part of IBM Watson HealthTM.

About Tecsys

Tecsys is a global provider of supply chain solutions that equip the borderless enterprise for growth. Organizations thrive when they have the software, technology and expertise to drive operational greatness and deliver on their brand promise. Spanning healthcare, retail, service parts, third-party logistics, and general wholesale high-volume distribution industries, Tecsys delivers dynamic and powerful solutions for warehouse management, distribution and transportation management, supply management at point of use, retail order management, as well as complete financial management and analytics solutions. Tecsys’ shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TCS.