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Take control of telemetry monitoring with a unified workflow
While telemetry remains a critical tool for hospitals, it often falls short. Manual tasks and extraneous alarms can overwhelm clinicians. Overuse can affect patient care and flow. Existing infrastructure can limit flexibility. With its innovative platform, Philips offers an enterprise-wide reboot.
A powerful telemetry solution that scales to safeguard patients and connect teams, workflows and insights
Effective telemetry monitoring shouldn’t end at specialized units. Philips telemetry extends wherever hospitals have wireless coverage. It spans the system – whether one hospital or many – and even goes beyond the walls. Outpatient ECG monitors may offer an option to send appropriate patients home after an ED visit or hospital admission. Inside hospitals, versatile telemetry monitors connect to central data platforms, to share vital patient information and analyze telemetry and alarm management. Optional integration of smartphones and central monitoring units (CMUs) further empower clinicians.
Restore oversight to support frontline teams, patient safety and hospital operations
- Empower clinicians: Release care teams from the bedside and central station while still providing timely insights. Reduce manual administration and documentation. Help manage alarms. All to focus on meaningful care.
- Meet demand: Stand ready with telemetry capacity to meet daily needs and future surges.
- Inform decisions: Gain telemetry insights so clinical leaders can reconcile orders, see patient monitoring duration and view recent arrhythmia history.
- Protect investment: Maximize existing IT infrastructure – 802.11 or Philips Smart-hopping – while promoting uptime and guarding patient data.
Unite central surveillance, mobile applications and robust data analytics across the health system
- Manage alarms: Use insights and central station tools to tailor alarms. Triage alarms with a CMU team.
- Analyze data: Quickly gather key info such as orders, monitoring status and duration – only available by manual collection before.
- Gain control on the go: Use smartphones within the hospital to admit patients, assign monitors, respond to alarms, start measurements and handle wavestrips.
- Scale as needed: Add monitoring or stand it down as patient volume dictates. Use the same infrastructure as the health system grows.
- Oversee assets: Centrally manage Philips devices and the network they use.
Restore clinical control and operational efficiency while futureproofing telemetry
- Promote smart telemetry: The right insights can help clinicians monitor and manage telemetry use.
- Maintain oversight: Outpatient monitoring with diagnostic services may offer the opportunity to discharge appropriate patients to home, from either the ED or inpatient telemetry.*
- Drive patient flow: Appropriate telemetry use, flexible hospital monitoring and outpatient options support flow, starting at the ED.
- Help create calm: Telemetry offers a major chance to address the daily flood of patient alarms [1,2].
Recognize that healthcare pressures call for a powerful and comprehensive telemetry solution
- Respond to demand: Unrelenting ED pressure and recent health emergencies call for innovation.
- Back teams: Telemetry patients are often spread across hospitals, while clinical workloads show no signs of easing on their own.
- Monitor wisely: Telemetry overuse — a known issue — can boost costs, lead to unneeded tests and contribute to alarm fatigue, a safety risk.
- Guard resources: More than ever, health systems need clear documentation and evidence-based care to secure reimbursements.
- Meet IT challenges: Networking has grown more complex and cybersecurity risks continue to rise.
Integrated telemetry solutions working as one, to support care across the health system and beyond its walls
Telemetry often involves multiple care teams, calling for a comprehensive solution that connects otherwise-fragmented workflows. The Philips telemetry platform helps clinicians (and, when desired, monitor techs) work together to provide coordinated, continuous oversight. It follows patients from the ED and admission through discharge, offering connectivity across the health system and from hospital to home.
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Footnotes
- Up to 350 alarms occur per patient per day: AAMI Foundation HTSI (Healthcare Technology Safety Institute). Using Data to Drive Alarm System Improvement Efforts: The Johns Hopkins Hospital Experience. 2012.
- 85% or more of patient alarms are non-actionable: The Joint Commission. Medical device alarm safety in hospitals. Sentinel Event Alert 50. 2013
Disclaimer
* Philips Mobile Cardiac Telemetry (MCOT) includes the MCOT device with SmartDetect algorithm. MCOT supports MCOT and Cardiac Event services, which include an end of service report, technician ECG review, and urgent/emergent notification of detected cardiac events when appropriate. Connected does not mean continuous data transmission. Data receipt and processing may be impacted by a variety of factors, including cellular, Bluetooth connection and wireless transmission. Please see the MCOT Product Labeling for more information.
** With PIC iX 4.4 and higher