Sotera® Wireless CNO Rosemary Kennedy To Address Southern California ANIA Chapter

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Sotera^® Wireless today announced that Dr. Rosemary Kennedy, the Company's chief nursing officer and a recognized innovator in nursing informatics, will discuss advances in continuous monitoring and surveillance technology during a webinar to be held on September 30, 2015 at 12 p.m. Pacific time. The Southern California chapter of the American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA) is sponsoring the event.

"In today's healthcare environment nurses play a pivotal role in the identification and prevention of complications that can affect patient safety and health," said Kennedy. "Increasingly, nurses want to understand how surveillance and the use of continuous vital sign monitoring in non-ICU hospital settings can enhance nursing practice and patient safety."

Rapid-fire changes in health care technology have driven the growth of nursing informatics, making education key for these professionals who work in a wide variety of settings blending nursing practice and technology. Participants of the ANIA webinar will:

• verbalize the definition of nursing surveillance and provide examples in practice,
• recall one national driver for vital sign surveillance along with implications for nursing practice,
• verbalize the impact of advanced surveillance technology on patient outcomes, and
• verbalize three patient outcomes related to nursing surveillance interventions.

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Dr. Kennedy has more than 25 years of expertise in the development and implementation of electronic health records with a focus on terminology, quality measurement, and clinical decision support. Previously she held many leadership roles through her work with Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records at the National Quality Forum (NQF), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and Technology Informatics Guiding Educational Reform Board (TIGER).

ANIA is a professional nursing association with over 3,000 members in 50 states and 30 countries. The purpose of ANIA (formerly ANIA-CARING) is to advance the field of nursing informatics through communication, education, research, and professional activities. 

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About Sotera Wireless
Sotera Wireless, Inc. is a San Diego based medical device company dedicated to the development, marketing and sale of a new generation of comprehensive vital signs monitoring. Sotera's mission is to improve patient safety by empowering clinicians to detect early signs of deterioration in virtually any care setting and enable early intervention and rapid response, all without limiting the patient's freedom of movement. More information on the company or its ViSi Mobile System can be obtained at soterawireless.com or by sending an email to [email protected].

Sotera^® and ViSi Mobile^® are registered trademarks of Sotera Wireless, Inc. 

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