Ten years ago, a publication in The New England Journal of Medicine introduced the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist. With that publication began a new movement in surgical safety around the world. Over the past year, Ariadne Labs partnered with Lifebox, the global surgical safety non-profit, to develop an in-depth report on the impact… Continue reading New Report Reflects on a Decade of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
In a new patient safety effort, Ariadne Labs and the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Office of the Chief Medical Officer (OCMO) collaborated on the creation, development and testing of a new tool, called the Device Briefing Tool. This is aimed at improving the safety of surgical devices, especially during their first use in the operating… Continue reading New Communication Tool Developed by Ariadne Labs and the Johnson & Johnson Office of the Chief Medical Officer Aims to Improve Surgical Safety with New Operating Room Devices
Christy Cauley, MD, MPH is a faculty member in the Safe Surgery Program at Ariadne Labs an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a lead investigator in HealthPrism work at Ariadne. Her currently funded research focuses on patient centered outcomes evaluation using mHealth as well as Improving… Continue reading Christy Cauley
Many find the pervasiveness of mobile phones both distracting and annoying, yet that very ubiquity may prove to be a boon for those recovering from surgery. A paper published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association Surgery demonstrates how a special smartphone application can be used to record the movements and activity of… Continue reading Study finds smartphone potential in measuring post-surgical recovery