Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT and eHealth news for the week ending April 16:
Hospital cuts costly falls by 39% due to predictive analytics
Healthcare IT News ~ Bill Siwicki ~ 12/04/2017
El Camino Hospital linked EHR, bed alarm and nurse call light data to analytics to identify patients at high risk of falls.
Alarm fatigue: 5 reasons nurses may have a delayed response to alarms
FierceHealthcare ~ Ilene MacDonald ~ 12/04/2017
Nurses typically respond quickly when alarms are urgent and life-threatening. But a new study finds they are slower to respond to them at the end of a long shift when they suffer from chronic alarm fatigue.
