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Improve patient safety
Minimize risk with data-driven insights
Overview
Tackling the challenge of improving patient safety
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Understanding protocol compliance
Evaluating compliance with safety protocols is a time-consuming task that typically requires manual resources to conduct multiple observations. These audits are ultimately biased due to the Hawthorne effect, when subjects alter their behavior because they are aware of being observed. The Black Box Platform™ leverages automatic audiovisual data capture and AI to objectively assess compliance and engagement with safety protocols - without adding administrative burden.
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Translating understanding into action
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Maintaining psychological safety
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Easily identifying safety events
01
Understanding protocol compliance
Evaluating compliance with safety protocols is a time-consuming task that typically requires manual resources to conduct multiple observations. These audits are ultimately biased due to the Hawthorne effect, when subjects alter their behavior because they are aware of being observed. The Black Box Platform™ leverages automatic audiovisual data capture and AI to objectively assess compliance and engagement with safety protocols - without adding administrative burden.
03
Translating understanding into action
04
Maintaining psychological safety
02
Easily identifying safety events
01
Understanding protocol compliance
Evaluating compliance with safety protocols is a time-consuming task that typically requires manual resources to conduct multiple observations. These audits are ultimately biased due to the Hawthorne effect, when subjects alter their behavior because they are aware of being observed. The Black Box Platform™ leverages automatic audiovisual data capture and AI to objectively assess compliance and engagement with safety protocols - without adding administrative burden.
03
Translating understanding into action
04
Maintaining psychological safety
02
Easily identifying safety events
Patient Safety
How We Help
Improving patient safety requires objective visibility into clinical occurrences and actionable insights that inform interventions. The Black Box Platform detects outliers, streamlines incident reporting, facilitates comprehensive case review, and leverages unparalleled analytics - enabling customers to drive quality improvement results such as:
Reduced wrong site procedures
Reduced ICU admission and readmission rates
Reduced blood wastage
Reduced length of stay
Improved staff engagement and well-being
Testimonials
From Our Customers
"If this technology and the safety culture it creates eliminates even one major adverse event and saves a patient from that, saves providers from being part of that… that I think is the real power."
Douglas S. Smink, MD, MPH
Chief of Surgery
"The Black Box Platform opened so many things in the operating room that we haven't thought about before or had thought about but in separate pillars. Communication, technical skills, non-technical skills...we looked at all those things but separately, but the Black Box Platform has taught us that this is interconnected. And if you want to improve patient safety, you have to look at all of it at the same time."
Jeanett Strandbygaard, MD
Clinical Associate Professor and Obstetrician, Rigshospitalet
"We have worked with centers who have leveraged the Black Box Platform and video review to identify, for example, an issue with blood administration and storage throughout the hospital. When you have an exsanguinating patient that is in hemorrhagic shock, and you have to get blood from a different floor... you cannot readily tell the time it actually takes for transfusion through the electronic medical record. It's something you really just have to see and measure on video and watch to realize how long it actually takes. With that information and data, you can then go back and develop a quality improvement process to change it."
Ryan P. Dumas, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Testimonials
From Our Customers
"If this technology and the safety culture it creates eliminates even one major adverse event and saves a patient from that, saves providers from being part of that… that I think is the real power."
Douglas S. Smink, MD, MPH
Chief of Surgery
"The Black Box Platform opened so many things in the operating room that we haven't thought about before or had thought about but in separate pillars. Communication, technical skills, non-technical skills...we looked at all those things but separately, but the Black Box Platform has taught us that this is interconnected. And if you want to improve patient safety, you have to look at all of it at the same time."
Jeanett Strandbygaard, MD
Clinical Associate Professor and Obstetrician, Rigshospitalet
"We have worked with centers who have leveraged the Black Box Platform and video review to identify, for example, an issue with blood administration and storage throughout the hospital. When you have an exsanguinating patient that is in hemorrhagic shock, and you have to get blood from a different floor... you cannot readily tell the time it actually takes for transfusion through the electronic medical record. It's something you really just have to see and measure on video and watch to realize how long it actually takes. With that information and data, you can then go back and develop a quality improvement process to change it."
Ryan P. Dumas, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Testimonials
From Our Customers
"If this technology and the safety culture it creates eliminates even one major adverse event and saves a patient from that, saves providers from being part of that… that I think is the real power."
Douglas S. Smink, MD, MPH
Chief of Surgery
"The Black Box Platform opened so many things in the operating room that we haven't thought about before or had thought about but in separate pillars. Communication, technical skills, non-technical skills...we looked at all those things but separately, but the Black Box Platform has taught us that this is interconnected. And if you want to improve patient safety, you have to look at all of it at the same time."
Jeanett Strandbygaard, MD
Clinical Associate Professor and Obstetrician, Rigshospitalet
"We have worked with centers who have leveraged the Black Box Platform and video review to identify, for example, an issue with blood administration and storage throughout the hospital. When you have an exsanguinating patient that is in hemorrhagic shock, and you have to get blood from a different floor... you cannot readily tell the time it actually takes for transfusion through the electronic medical record. It's something you really just have to see and measure on video and watch to realize how long it actually takes. With that information and data, you can then go back and develop a quality improvement process to change it."
Ryan P. Dumas, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
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