Health Devices Achievement Award Winners Circle
Honoring excellence in the field of health technology management
The Health Devices Achievement Award is presented each year to an ECRI member institution that has demonstrated an outstanding initiative that improves patient safety, reduces costs, or otherwise facilitates better strategic management of health technology. ECRI will begin accepting submissions for next year’s Award in November.
2019 Award Winner
Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Developing an App to Promote More Rapid Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation and Sedation
Penn Medicine was honored for developing an app that uses EHR data to promote faster weaning of patients from sedation and mechanical ventilator support. Stakeholders from across the organization collaborated to develop the app—a computerized dashboard and clinician alert system—to address an identified need: shortening the time patients stay on mechanical ventilation. Doing so would reduce the risk of complications, as well as reduce patients' length of stay in the ICU.
The result was an app that leveraged information stored in the EHR to provide clinicians with real-time access to meaningful ventilation and sedation protocol data. The app enables continuous screening of patient eligibility for reducing sedative medications and weaning from the ventilator. And it alerts respiratory and nursing staff when interventions are required to move patients along the weaning process.
Use of the app has helped reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation by more than 24 hours compared with baseline data, and it has led to a corresponding reduction in ICU and hospital lengths of stay.
Finalists
- John Muir Health—Walnut Creek, CA
Developing an AEM Database: John Muir Health's Approach to Establishing an Alternative Equipment Maintenance Program - Parkview Health—Fort Wayne, IN
Perioperative Supply Management: Parkview Health Automates Its Inventory Management Process - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), New England Healthcare System—Bedford, MA
Alternative Equipment Maintenance Plan: The VA New England Healthcare System Streamlines Its PM Program
Other Commended Entries
- Banner Health—Chandler, AZ
Developing an In-House Medical Physics Program: Banner Health's Initiative to Streamline Processes and Standardize Protocols - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center—New York, NY
Transitioning from a Homegrown to a Commercial Medical Device Management System: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Meets the Challenge - St. Luke's Health System—Boise, ID
Credentialing Industry Reps in the OR: St. Luke's Health System Uses EHR Data to Drive Process Improvements
2018 Award Winner
Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
Postoperative Pulmonary Care Smartphone App
Finalists
- Boston Medical Center─Boston, MA
Identifying and Responding to Clinically Decompensating Patients—Implementing an EMR-Based Early Warning System - Einstein Healthcare Network─Philadelphia, PA
Reducing IV Contrast Extravasations during CT Examinations—Validating a New Approach - St. Luke's Medical Center─Quezon City, Philippines
Coping with Delivery Delays and High Supply Costs in the Philippines—Establishing a Medical Equipment Accessories Management Program - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Healthcare Technology Management Program Office─Bedford, MA
Improving Cybersecurity Management—Implementing a Networked Medical Device Database - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Configuring Blood Glucose Monitors to Reduce the Risk of Treatment Errors—Conducting a Simulation Study
2017 Award Winner
Penn Medicine Center for Healthcare Innovation, Philadelphia, PA
Designing Custom Apps to Improve Patient Care
Finalists
- Norton Healthcare─Louisville, KY
Strategic Planning in the Clinical Engineering Realm - Service New Brunswick─Fredericton, NB, Canada
IPM Completion Rates: Hitting the Mark with 100 Percent - St. Luke's Health System─Boise, ID
A "Role Model" Approach to Creating a Highly Reliable Recall Management Program
2016 Award Winner
Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
Finalists
- Banner Health─Phoenix, AZ
How a Safe Surgery Program Can Reduce Serious Reportable Events and Assist Supply Chain Decision Making for RFID Technology - Boston Medical Center─Boston, MA
Clinical Alarm Task Force - Cooper University Health Care─Camden, NJ
Partnership between Supply Chain and Process Improvement: An Optimal Structure - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center─Pittsburgh, PA
Medical Equipment Fleet Analysis: An Objective and Centralized Approach to Equipment Replacement
2014 Award Winner
Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, DE
Finalists
- Banner Health─Phoenix, AZ
Bed Standards and Human Factors Usability Studies Utilized for Bed Purchasing Decisions - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center─Los Angeles, CA
Optimizing Patient Safety: A Centralized Cardiac Monitoring Center (Cockpit) - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia─Philadelphia, PA
Using Video to Evaluate Physiologic Monitor Alarm Characteristics and Nurse Responses to Alarms - Geisinger Health System─Danville, PA
Objective Assessment of Incoming Clinical Technology & Devices - U.S. Army Western Regional Medical Command─Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA
Nomenclature Standardization Initiative (NSI)
2013 Award Winner
Methodist Hospital of Southern California, Arcadia, CA
Finalists
- Boston Medical Center─Boston, MA
Telemetry Task Force Alarm Reduction Strategies - Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario─Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Implementation of an Effective Clinical Technology Management Program - Geisinger Health System─Danville, PA
Clinical Capital Technology--Assessment, Planning and Optimization - Halton Healthcare Services─Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Implementation of an Electronic Positive Patient Identification System for Specimen Collection - Novant Health─Winston-Salem, NC
Clinical Equipment Management Program - Parkview HealthSystem─Fort Wayne, IN
Supply Chain Management Performance Improvement
2012 Award Winner
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Finalists
- Fletcher Allen Healthcare─Burlington, VT
Integration of the Cardiology Lifecycle for Patients - Kaiser Permanente─Torrance, CA
Leveraging an Integrated Healthcare System to Improve Quality of Care by Reducing Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections - Memorial Sloan-Kettering─New York, NY
Integration of RFID System with Infusion Pumps - University of Pennsylvania─Philadelphia, PA
The MyHeartMap Challenge: a Social Media, Mobile Media, Health Technology Initiative - West Penn Allegheny Health System─Pittsburgh, PA
Impact of an Electronic Hand Hygiene Feedback Device on Improving Rates of Hand Hygiene Compliance