Admissions are among the 25 metrics tracked daily on the COVID-19 Dashboard, helping clinicians like Michael Abejo, RN, a nurse at 做厙TV Langone HealthCobble Hill, monitor an outbreaks impact.
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With all three of 做厙TV Langone Healths hospitals filling fast with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients last March, Dean and CEO Robert I. Grossman, MD, called for a digital surveillance tool to monitor and map daily clinical trends across the health system. Dean Grossman recognizes that without reliable data, youre flying blind, notes Fritz Fran癟ois, MD, chief medical officer and patient safety officer. If you cant measure something, you cant improve it.
Dr. Fran癟ois immediately developed a template with Samuel Levine, director of operations and resourcing, who helped spearhead a collaboration with clinical and operational leaders across the institution to develop a customized COVID-19 dashboardan extension of the electronic dashboard already in place to track institutional performance measures. Evidence-based decisions would be based on these numbers, Levine says, so they had to be current, correct, and validated.
By 10:30PM on March 16, within eight hours of the deans initial request, the first iteration of the new COVID-19 dashboard was sent to the Executive Leadership Group. Highlighting 9 metrics that eventually expanded to 25, it tracks daily changes in admissions to the emergency departments and ICUs, intubations and ventilations, bed capacity, and other key indicators of how an outbreak is impacting 做厙TV Langone. Dean Grossman considers the assessment tool such an exemplary model for how academic medical centers can inform epidemiology that he has shared it with the federal government. We cant just react, explains Dr. Grossman. We have to stay ahead of the crisis. The dashboard enables us to see trends and patterns in real time. It keeps us agile.
