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The Operating Room Dashboard

by runningwithTWiTs | June 25, 2006
"Memorial Sloan-Kettering's top priority is to ensure patient safety while providing efficient, high-quality care. This integrated technology plays a major role in organizing and providing context for a complex array of information and images during surgery, and helps us accomplish that goal."
- Roger Wilson, MD, Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at MSKCC.

"Situational awareness is key to patient safety. This technology seamlessly delivers vital data and trends to the patient care team so that everyone remains informed throughout the course of each surgery."
- Roger Wilson, MD, Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at MSKCC.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York - June 20, 2006 One of the delicate balances of modern technology is delivering all the relevant information in such a way that it can be taken in at a glance akin to the car dashboard ֖ while still concentrating on the mission-critical task at hand.

The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York has recently deployed LiveData's OR-Dashboard across its 21 new operating rooms. The new ORs incorporate state-of-the-art medical and information technology that visually integrates information from disparate sources, delivering a complete, real-time view of all relevant patient information on a large, flat panel display that is visible to the entire OR team.

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