If you are considering a feeding management system, here are the 6 things you need to know about your organization. What are your compliance goals? Who is preparing feeds? Which units need the solution? When should each site go live? How do you approach staff and clinical education? Why should your institution make a change? …
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Devices and kits are becoming more prevalent among hospitals, donor banks and consumers as the trend continues to expand. Human milk analyzers are having a moment. This category includes devices that use light to analyze milk for macronutrient composition, as well as kits with test strips. But why is the moment now? Lactating parents, donor …
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Eddie Chang, MD, MBA is Chief of Neonatology at Abington Hospital – Jefferson Health. Here he describes some of the ways that Keriton impacts his NICU/SCN. How did Jefferson Health’s approach to innovation help in adopting Keriton? Your NICU installed Keriton 2.5 years ago. What was the first benefit the data offered? How does the …
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Posters written, designed and presented by NICU and Pediatric nurses, lactation consultants and clinical dietitians who use Keriton every day. 1. Presented at NEANN 2021, the annual meeting of the New England Association of Neonatal Nurses. RESULTS based on 12 months of data: March 1, 2020 to March 1, 2021. On-boarded 779 patients Shared 5,815 …
The Connecticut Children’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the UConn John Dempsey Hospital is offering a high-tech tool for moms to ensure their infants get the most out of breast milk and formula feeding. Mothers with infants in the Connecticut Children’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the UConn John Dempsey Hospital soon will have a …
Connecticut Children’s has selected Keriton Kare to improve the quality and safety of feeding management at its Hartford and Farmington campuses. Keriton, a provider of applications for NICUs and children’s hospitals, offers comprehensive breast milk, donor milk, and formula management. Keriton is integrated with Connecticut Children’s Epic EMR. “Connecticut Children’s has partnered with Keriton to …
Since going live in 2017, the Kare Mom app has received a positive response. Our iOS app rating is 4.8 out of 5 stars (84 ratings), and our Android app rating is 4.9 out of 5 stars (57 ratings), which is especially impressive for a cross-platform app. The Kare Mom app was designed with moms, to overcome the challenges …
Keriton Improves Nursing Productivity Keeping it real When it comes to barcoding, it may seem logical to treat breast milk like blood or medication. But the logic quickly fails. How often is blood combined with other bags of blood, then aliquoted specifically per patient before administration? How regularly is a medication frozen, thawed, and dosed …
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In January and February, two additional hospital systems in the Philadelphia area partnered with Keriton to train and go-live using our breast milk, donor milk, and formula feeding management platform. We have trained over 225 new staff on the Keriton Kare platform in the last two months. For each go-live, our team observed and configured …
Talking to the Front Line It’s no wondering co-innovating with nurses creates the right solutions. There are 3.2 million nurses working across the U.S., and for the 17th consecutive year, the nursing profession is rated highest for honesty and ethics in Gallup’s annual poll. As the front line of patient care, nursing is intimately tied to …
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