
This is a photograph of 14th Street, in Washington, DC. The street is currently undergoing a rejuvination, and reflects some of the beautiful shades of spring that Washington reveals to passers-by.

This is a photograph of 14th Street, in Washington, DC. The street is currently undergoing a rejuvination, and reflects some of the beautiful shades of spring that Washington reveals to passers-by.
I am in Besthesda, MD, attending the Institute’s intensive training seminar. The quote above is from Roslyn Marshall, RN, Nurse Manager for the Neurosciences Unit at Medical College of Georgia, who placed a sign with the words in the title near the place where nurses used to do their shift changes. They now do shift changes at the patient bedside. The other quote I liked was from Terry Griffin, who said:
No one more than parents wants to make sure their baby’s care is error free
In reference to including parents in hospital rounds and nursing rounds. I also learned to not call “Carts on Wheels” “COWs” – “WOWs” (“Workstation on Wheels”) is better.
When in California last week, I went to visit Larry Leisure, President, North America, and Deryk Van Brunt, DrPH, Senior VP of Business Development for iMetrikus.
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iMetrikus is part of the Continua Alliance, and has expertise in collecting and processing patient derived biometric data using FDA-cleared gateways, and in presenting the data to support clinical workflow. Here are a few images of the devices. The MetrikLink device connects many different devices via a phone line or PC, but it is not required if the device has standard connectors. There is also a mobile platform, especially interesting for patients who may rely on a cell phone for Internet connectivity.