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ICUTracker™ Helps Ventura County
Medical
Center Win Top Honors in
2009 Quality
Leader Awards
 VCMC's
"Improving Critical Care Outcomes – the
Future of ICU Data Collection and
Analysis" was a Top Honors
winner in the California Association of
Public Hospitals/SafetyNet Institute (CAPH/SNI)
VCMC used web-based ICUTracker to
automate data gathering activities,
allowing more time for analyzing ICU
outcomes data, and thus optimizing ICU
quality and performance.
Prior to implementing ICUTracker, VCMC’s
ICU had instituted best-practices
protocols/bundles and was gathering
information daily. But their staff was
drowning in mountains of hand-gathered
data without the time or resources to
analyze whether the many ‘improvements’
they had undertaken were actually having
a positive effect on our patient
outcomes. In their last quarters of the
2-year grant (ending December 2009) VCMC,
along with ICUTracker, have taken an
existing program to the next level and
created a totally automated data
collection and analysis system for ICU.
According to VCMC, they, along with
MAS, feel that they have blazed a
trail for other ICUs to follow and that
this is definitely the wave of the
future in automated hospital data
collection – a necessary step that must
eventually be faced by all hospitals -
not only to meet regulatory requirements
but to assure quality patient care.
For more information on
ICUTracker call 1-866-791-6108 or click
on one of the buttons below.
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