Adventure Awaits: SMHC’s Escape Room Combines Collaboration and Learning
UNE: Chancel Diazenza, Morgan Desmond, Cameron Mann, Matthew McDonald, Izzi Marcea, and Kyle Woodruff. SMHC: Jennifer Smith, Sarah Warner, Melissa [...]
Easing Anxiety: VR helps pediatric patients through scary procedures
When pediatric patients require infusion therapy, the experience can often make them feel anxious or nervous. Infusions require placing an IV [...]
The FRST Tool: Assessing Risk of Violent Behavior in ED Patients
Doug Johnston, MD (left) and Chris Racine, MD (right) reviewing a FRST screening. Assessing the risk of violence in [...]
Optimizing the Workforce with Artificial Intelligence: Olive
Since joining MaineHealth as the Vice President of Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) in 2014, Paul Chausse has implemented innovation [...]
A Low-Cost Cancer Screening Solution: Lediscan
Well-versed in global health, Obieze “Obi” Nwanna-Nzewunwa, MD, MS, brought unique experience and a desire to continue helping underserved [...]
Breathe Easier: The Oxygen Therapy Band
Deb Flint, RRT with an early design of her Oxygen Therapy Band innovation. Deb Flint, RRT, [...]
Containing COVID-19: Collapsible Aerosolized Particle Enclosure
Imagine a busy hospital emergency department (ED) filled with patients, many of whom have or may have COVID-19. The [...]
Reinventing Home Health Care Delivery: The Home Health Portable Workstation
Jim Byrne, a physical therapist at CHANS Home Health & Hospice, addresses an opportunity to reinvent the delivery of essential home health care. “If [...]
Adventure Awaits: SMHC’s Escape Room Combines Collaboration and Learning
UNE: Chancel Diazenza, Morgan Desmond, Cameron Mann, Matthew McDonald, Izzi Marcea, and Kyle Woodruff. SMHC: Jennifer [...]
Easing Anxiety: VR helps pediatric patients through scary procedures
When pediatric patients require infusion therapy, the experience can often make them feel anxious or nervous. Infusions [...]
The FRST Tool: Assessing Risk of Violent Behavior in ED Patients
Doug Johnston, MD (left) and Chris Racine, MD (right) reviewing a FRST screening. Assessing the [...]
Reimagining Hospital Gowns: The NewGown™
Sara Cox, CNRN, tries on one of the first NewGown prototypes in fall 2020. Patients with an altered mental status [...]
A Vision for Rural Maine: Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Using Artificial Intelligence
(from left) Brian Nolan, MD, Billijoe Prech-Child, MA, Brianna Walker, MA, and Sadie Kenney, MA, of Western Maine Health with the retinal camera [...]
Helping Newborns in Distress: Augmented Reality Neonatal Resuscitation Simulation
Michael Ferguson, MD, MTeach, demonstrating the augmented reality simulation of a newborn in distress. Photo: Black Fly Media In rural [...]
From Salad Bar to Grocery Store
Some of the grocery items available to care team members at the LincolnHealth grab-and-go grocery store Like many other MaineHealth facilities, LincolnHealth [...]
Saving Lives Anytime, Any Place: The Rescue Vac
“True emergencies are not convenient,” says Will Connolly, RN. “They do not happen where or when you want them to.” Will Connolly, RN [...]
An App for Patient Peace of Mind: navigatER
Samir Haydar, DO, MPH, helping a patient enroll in the navigatER app at Maine Medical Center Six years ago, while [...]