Video Transcript
According to Philips, areas of healthcare like patient monitoring have benefited from incremental improvements in hardware over the last two decades, but there’s been one glaring drawback: monitoring devices have been “anchored at the bedside and central station, perpetuating inefficiencies and patient safety risks.” But all of that is about to change.
Philips, producer of medical devices that include everything from ultrasound and MRI machines to x-ray equipment, says “a new era has arrived for patient monitoring.”
Philips says it hopes to transform the possibilities of how healthcare leaders can deploy and manage patient monitoring. Instead of a limited-scope approach, this would produce “an open ecosystem” where it can be accessible via mobile devices for inpatient and outpatient care.
This also takes a process that’s traditionally been department-specific to what is termed “IDN-wide.” The idea here is to distribute capabilities system-wide, transcending just one location and sharing data across care settings.
The results would be access to more data, as well as the ability to have better visibility and insight into those details, an integration effort that Philips says “closes gaps in patient monitoring.”
These include enabling caregivers to make decisions on the spot and document any changes that take place throughout. Philips adds that this bid for “quick, confident, and consistent care” also means improved patient outcomes.
Philips also has some related core objectives when it comes to patient monitoring—those include mitigating cyber security risks and reducing ‘alarm fatigue,’ the concept that professionals subject to consistently recurring alert noises tend to eventually tune them out.
