Doctors, Nurses Will Get Hands-On Learning About Latest, Greatest Medical Technology

At ‘Spark!,’ Doctors, Nurses Will Get Hands-On Learning About Latest, Greatest Medical Technology

WHAT:           In a tradeshow-like setting called “Spark! Health Innovation and Technology Showcase 2015,” about 30 top medical technology companies from Austin and beyond will demonstrate and discuss new products that will be included in the new Seton teaching hospital being built along 15th Street next to The University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School.

The new technologies also will be used in other Seton hospitals in the years ahead. Seton doctors, nurses and other employees will be attending Spark! to learn “hands on” about new health care technologies that will help them and their patients in Seton clinics and hospitals in the years ahead.

                     The tech providers and their products include:

• Language Line Solutions’ Language UC, which provides live video language interpretation via handheld tablet computers to ensure patients not proficient in English or who use sign language can effectively communicate immediately with doctors and nurses in emergency rooms and other medical settings, reducing the risk of misunderstandings during treatment.
• Rallyhood, which offers patients a one-stop web platform for communicating medical updates and needs to family, friends and other supporters as they are hospitalized and otherwise deal with injury or illness.
• Rubbermaid Healthcare’s CareLink Mobile Nurse Station, a light-weight, wheeled cart outfitted with a wi-fi enabled, touch screen computer that, in effect, allows a nurse’s desk to travel into patient rooms and elsewhere within a hospital, improving clinician interactions with patients and giving nurses more time at the bedside to help patients.
• TigerText, a highly secure text messaging system that complies with federal patient privacy requirements. It allows doctors and nurses to share information, coordinate care, check patients’ status and more quickly discharge hospital patients via text messages from their mobile phones or other handheld devices instead of waiting until they can get to a desk computer.

WHEN:                  8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 23

WHERE:                Seton Administration Offices Auditorium

1345 Philomena St., Austin

Free parking is available on streets around the building. Free visitor parking also is available in a garage behind the Seton Administration Offices and in a bricked parking area between the offices and the garage.

INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES:

• Mike Millard, Executive Director, Innovation, Technology and Clinical Research and Research Enterprise, Seton Healthcare Family
• Technology Experts from about 30 makers of the latest medical technology devices, equipment and software
• Seton doctors and nurses at the event who will be learning about new medical technology
  

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