Continuous vital sign monitoring can help alert healthcare providers to a patient’s decline as it is happening, enabling timely intervention before a patient deteriorates. A majority of respondents (74%) of GE HealthCare’s The State of Flexible Healthcare Delivery survey say that expanding the use of continuous monitoring technologies within healthcare systems would help identify deterioration earlier.
“As healthcare systems grapple with workforce shortages and complex patient management, it is essential that providers be supported by technology to work efficiently and effectively. In the ward environment where bedside clinicians are responsible for multiple patients simultaneously, care should be focused on the patients who need it most, and this requires ongoing surveillance and communication,” said John Beard, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Patient Care Solutions, GE HealthCare. “Continuous physiologic monitoring solutions can meet the challenge to alert care teams for changes in patient status but must be properly configured to optimize actionable alarms and clinical value. These research findings demonstrate that Portrait Mobile can meet the needs of patients and clinicians and provide critical information to support clinical decision making without causing undue burden.”
Portrait Mobile is part of GE HealthCare’s FlexAcuity monitoring solutions that are engineered to adapt to rapidly changing patient needs. GE HealthCare’s technology has been recognized globally for its design, receiving the iF Design Gold Award for Product Design in 2022 for Portrait Mobile and an iF Design Award in 2023 for CARESCAPE Canvas.
For more information on Portrait Mobile and GE HealthCare’s family of Portrait monitoring solutions, please visit: https://www.gehealthcare.com/products/patient-monitoring/portrait-mobile
*The COSMOS study was funded by GE HealthCare. The views expressed are solely those of Dr. Daniel Sessler, do not reflect the opinions or beliefs of UTHealth Houston and are based on his own opinions and on results that were achieved in the trial. Since there is no “typical” hospital/clinical setting and many variables exist, i.e. hospital size, case mix, staff expertise, etc. there can be no guarantee that others will achieve the same results.
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