Hospital falls are a universal burden, and digital, responsive interventions can be implemented to assist in fall prevention. A digital workflow system can pro-actively monitor patient movement and activity, alerting healthcare staff to potential fall risks in real-time to take immediate action, therewith reducing the likelihood of falls and looking to reduce injuries.
Residential safety quality indicators contribute to the quality of care provided to residents. With falls and injury being a recorded quality indicator (QI) score, having a falls intervention strategy in place in residential aged care is paramount for facilities providing care.
Discreet sensing and monitoring of movement within a facility assists greatly in tackling challenging, laborious areas such as managing fall risk, capturing care time spent, remaining compliant with for care quality and safety standards while ensuring privacy of care consumers and staff.
Reduce the harm associated with falls remaining undetected through discrete, 24/7 continuous monitoring of care consumers in room.
Using sensors combined with location tracking with the capability to detect and record essential activity of staff present in a room, care time and possible fall intervention data.
Through a central dashboard, setting up specific profiles of at risk individuals who require additional support given high needs, plus the possibility of real-time monitoring of in-room activity and possible wandering.
Ensuring staff flexibility, mobility and pre-emptive care assistance tailored to individual profiles and time shifts. Evening and overnight staff can be deployed according to live in-room activity or high-risk profiles. With such 24/7 monitoring security in place, any falls or wandering activities are instantly detected and automatically notified.
“We use around 600 items in the kitchen and all of them are now linked with allergy warnings and therapeutic diet codes. We can now manage the risks much better.”