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Texas nursing home chain using interventional analytics solution to identify change in resident condition and intervene early to avoid hospital readmissions Northfield, Ill., June 22, 2020 – Medline today announced more than 200 new customer contracts signed this year for its Post Acute Solutions Program, aimed at offering technology-based quality and workforce management solutions for long-term care providers. Experts say the industry is becoming more open to investing in new strategies to improve care. “As site visits to facilities have been put on hold due to COVID-19, many regional skilled nursing organizations are finding value in technology that promotes the...read more

Powerful data for nursing facility operators and public health departments.   Baltimore, MD, June 18, 2020 -- Real Time Medical Systems, the industry-leading interventional analytics solution in healthcare, is officially announcing its launch of DiseaseWatch, a data collection service providing nursing facilities and health entities a centralized infection surveillance system to immediately detect hotspots of potential infectious diseases – from COVID-19 to influenza – days in advance. In May, it was announced that DiseaseWatch would be providing data to inform the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s COVID-19 modeling. Partnering with nursing facility operators and state healthcare associations, DiseaseWatch captures...read more

Nursing facility data will inform current and future trajectory of COVID-19 pandemic models   Baltimore, MD, May 20, 2020 – Real Time Medical Systems (Real Time), the industry-leading Interventional Analytics solution in healthcare, announces that it is now providing a key input to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington through the launch of its new division, DiseaseWatch. This new division will provide live, de-identified data on leading indicators of infectious disease within nursing facilities in the United States to IHME’s COVID-19 modeling to inform the model’s projections, trajectories, and related analysis. Effective May...read more

Baltimore, MD, April 15, 2020 – Real Time Medical Systems (Real Time), the leading Interventional Analytics solution in healthcare, today announces a strategic partnership with AMS Onsite, a fast-growing infection control management practice. AMS Onsite will embed Real Time’s Infection Risk Identification tools into the nursing facilities it serves in order to stay ahead of potential infectious disease outbreaks. Real Time’s industry-leading Interventional Analytics solution extracts live clinical data from the LTPAC EHR and identifies subtle changes in resident condition, pushing live alerts, to clinical teams in an effort to anticipate adverse situations before they occur. Following the emergence of COVID-19,...read more

Cloud-based system intended to save the lives of patients and staff Baltimore, MD, April 13, 2020 – Montgomery County, PA, has teamed up with Real Time Medical Systems to provide 24/7 electronic Infectious Disease Surveillance of nursing facilities in the county, who have volunteered to share their data. The cloud-based software pulls data from the electronic health records (EHRs), identifying potential infectious disease “hotspots.” The system detects infectious disease warning signs, looking for changes in temperature, respiratory rate, cough, diagnosis, and shortness of breath. “By having automated, early access to all of today’s medical information we hope to be able to...read more

A Note to Our Readers Just one month ago Real Time planned to launch an informational piece on how to “Avoid Nursing Burnout” caused by a shortage of nurses in the acute and post-acute care communities. Our initial thought was to provide strategies focused on the use of different techniques and technologies that would alleviate challenges faced by an overworked and overwhelmed nursing workforce. Just when we thought the load carried by clinicians couldn’t get any heavier, they are now faced with an even more challenging environment due to COVID-19. So, we decided to change the direction of our blog...read more