At Paragon, we're dedicated to advancing neonatal care through innovative solutions. One of our key offerings, the SafeBaby® software, includes a powerful feature that can significantly enhance your clinical workflows: volume tracking. This feature not only simplifies the day-to-day tasks of clinical staff but also provides valuable insights for administrators. Here's how SafeBaby® can transform your operations.

Benefits of Volume Tracking: A Dual Advantage

Volume Tracking in SafeBaby® is designed to benefit two primary groups within your clinical team: the nursing and technical staff, as well as the administrative team.

For Nurses and Technicians: Say goodbye to cumbersome manual entry processes. SafeBaby® automates and streamlines your workflows, allowing you to focus on what truly matters—patient care.

For Administrators and Lactation Consultants: Gain access to detailed, actionable reports that provide deeper insights into feeding processes, helping you make more informed decisions to improve patient outcomes.

Enhancing Efficiency for Nurses and Technicians

Volume Tracking touches on three critical processes for clinical staff: receiving expressed breast milk (EBM), preparing feeds, and feeding patients.

Receiving Milk: With the Mom's Companion App, mothers will soon be able to log details about their milk, including volume, directly through the app. With a simple barcode scan, clinical staff can receive multiple containers of milk quickly and efficiently, drastically reducing the need for manual entry.

Preparing Feeds: The entire feed prep process becomes streamlined with the implementation of volume tracking. Nurses and Milk Technicians are walked through the process in a straightforward manner with virtually no chance of error.

Feeding Patients: With every mL of milk being accounted for, SafeBaby® completely eliminates the need for accessing the EHR for feed charting after the fact. Everything is managed within SafeBaby®'s automated processes and seamlessly transferred to the EHR upon completion of the feed, removing the need for manual adjustments. And this, of course, means that nurses can go on to perform other clinical duties after a feed rather than spending valuable time entering or revising feed details on the computer.

Empowering Management with Accurate Reporting

SafeBaby® doesn't just streamline processes; it also delivers precise, comprehensive reports that are invaluable to your administrative team, lactation consultants, and other staff.

Every drop of EBM, donor milk or RTF formula are accounted for. Every gram of powdered or ml of liquid concentrate formula and additive is tracked and SafeBaby®'s reports give profound insights into individual mothers' milk production and wastage trends of commercial products become available. SafeBaby® reports even provide a simple, easy way of handling product recalls.

Looking Ahead

Volume tracking is probably the innovation that the SafeBaby® team is proudest of. It adds a rich, new layer of functionality to the NICU's operations and eases many frustrations and aggravations for all parties involved. Honestly, volume tracking is more than just a feature—it's a powerful new aspect of feeding management that enhances efficiency, accuracy, and safety in neonatal care. If you're looking to streamline your processes, provide better care, and gain deeper insights, this could be the solution you've been waiting for.