Patient monitoring and clinical surveillance, though related, are different. Clinical surveillance uses the results of monitoring to recognize changes in the patient’s clinical status, interpret the potential clinical implications of these changes, and to help clinicians decide if further actions are required.
Medical device integration (MDI) solutions can deliver the data and insight at and away from the bedside to support patient monitoring in all clinical environments.
The Shared Configuration and High Availability features of Philips Capsule’s Medical Device Information Platform (MDIP) offer resilience and aim to ensure a high level of operational performance, including uptime.
As the application of medical devices grows, healthcare providers look for connectivity and IT solutions to help them aggregate and utilize data efficiently to enhance clinical workflows and patient care.
Device connectivity with the EHR and other downstream systems is only getting started. Devoting hospital resources to broaden the scope of medical device integration is well worth the investment.
An ongoing study shows that combination smart alerts derived from medical device data can help to identify clinically actionable events.