The Patient Monitoring Gateway extends the functionality of your Philips Patient Monitoring System by delivering automated complementary event notification, directly to your clinical staff. Bedisde and telemetry alarm messages can be routed to the appropriate caregiver, providing staff with alerts related to critical and non-critical alarms and events.
The Patient Monitoring Gateway delivers messages to virutally any combination of devices (e.g. pagers, wireless telephones, voice communication badges, computers and marquees), allowing clinicians to better meet the demands of their patients’ critical care situation, from routine advisories to critical alarm information.
Benefits to clinicians
- Improvements in clinician response time
- Staff is better able to sort patient issues by priority and manage their time
- Increases accountability by documenting all patient call activity
Benefits to Information Services / IT
- Text, voice and direct notification to primary and backup caregivers
- Delivery confirmation, read receipt and acknowledgement on select devices
- Alarm information notification to filter alarms based on alarm sensitivity
Benefits to patients
- Reduction of overhead /ambient noise and use of the intercom system can create a more healing or soothing environment
- Visiting family members receive ‘peace of mind’ due to remote access of patient vital signs via mobile communications and marquee signs
- Patients’ needs are addressed more quickly and efficiently due to productivity gains from ability to prioritize patient needs in transit