A System to Improve Compliance with Electrocardiography Electrode Expiration Tracking.

Background: Electrocardiography (ECG) electrodes require special expiration tracking after the manufacturer's packaging is opened. Compliance with this requirement, however, can be inconsistent. The authors tested the efficacy of a device that provides for expiration tracking of bulk-packaged electrodes to improve compliance.

Visual Analytics to Leverage Anesthesia Electronic Health Record.

Background: Visual analytics is the science of analytical reasoning supported by interactive visual interfaces called dashboards. In this report, we describe our experience addressing the challenges in visual analytics of anesthesia electronic health record (EHR) data using a commercially available business intelligence (BI) platform. As a primary outcome, we discuss some performance metrics of the dashboards, and as a secondary outcome, we outline some operational enhancements and financial savings associated with deploying the dashboards.