AWARE Patient Surveillance

AWARE Patient Surveillance — Real-Time Patient Monitoring

Real-time monitoring from bedside to command center, without the cost of a legacy hub. Powered by 1,330+ Mayo Clinic co-developed clinical rules.

AWARE™ is Tele-Health & Virtual Health on a Modern Enterprise Class Digital Health Platform

AWARE™ is a portable real-time digital health solution that delivers FDA Cleared virtual-ICU and virtual acute care. AWARE™ allows intensivists, hospitalists, other providers, and nurses to be part of a Clinical Mesh Network™. Combined with 1,330 rules and algorithms, AWARE™ helps drive timely diagnosis and delivery of the appropriate care. With AWARE™, physicians and nurses can be anywhere and care for patients from within one digital health solution. The virtual-ICU market is demanding not just 24/7 Command Centers, but Clinical Mesh Networks™ that can provide ad-hoc and on-demand tele-ICU care for remote hospitals and at-home acute care.

The AWARE™ platform uses clinically vetted rules, early indicative algorithms, and AI/ ML based algorithms to significantly reduce the amount of time required to assess and treat patients. In addition, peer-reviewed research demonstrates AWARE™ reduces errors by up to 50% thereby also reducing a primary driver of clinician and nursing time — fixing errors1. The AWARE Sepsis DART platform was developed by combining health IT with human factor ergonomics and System Engineering to design a system that extracts high-value data from the EMR and presents it to the clinical and nursing teams in patient-centric information packages2.

Remote Patient Monitoring for Patients, Physicians, and Nurses

Today’s EHR solutions are not designed for clinical care delivery especially when it comes to acute care, telemedicine, or virtual-ICU’s. Hospital billing systems have been adapted as a nested spreadsheet with clinical data in a flawed attempt to deliver clinical care. This model has created multiple data areas that a doctor or nurse must search to find relevant clinical data and is a source of intense pain and anguish for healthcare workers. EHRs have also been the ire of many articles over the past few years including Why Physicians Hate Their Computers and Death by 1,000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong. 

AWARE™ allows hospitalists and intensivists to provide complex, comprehensive, and collaborative virtual-ICU or virtual acute care from anywhere using just a laptop. In today’s legacy e-ICU acute care environment, a hospitalist or intensivist doesn’t have access to EHR data integrated into a single view on a tele-ICU clinical decision support platform. With Aware™ that intensivist or hospitalist can easily monitor multiple hospitals, without having to bounce in and out of multiple EHRs as is the case with other tele-ICU solutions. Having a portable real-time clinical analytics solution with full EHR clinical data integration allows AWARE™ users to skip having to flip back and forth between the virtual-ICU system and multiple EHRs.

AWARE™ has all the data in one place and combines 1,330 rules, early and indicative algorithms, AI/ML algorithms to help assess and treat patients. AWARE™ allows physicians and nurses to efficiently monitor many more patients than they can today, and they can do it from anywhere, rendering today’s expensive hub-style tele-ICU command centers much less important and likely irrelevant over time.

A Tele-ICU Collaboration Platform That Positively Impacts Remote Patient Monitoring

AWARE’s automated collaboration and communication functionality provides at-a-glance awareness of a patient’s complete status, enabling bedside and remote patient monitoring of large numbers of patients simultaneously. Digital health platforms that deliver automated communication have far superior outcomes than the EHR or other legacy e-ICU solutions. If a digital health platform is lacking automated communication, the result is an inability to notify physicians and nurses of clinical issues and elements of care that may be in jeopardy. Deficiencies around automated communication cause you to struggle in achieving your specified clinical goals. Keeping your physicians and nurses informed drives efficiency, utilization, and trust in the solution and allows for at-scale monitoring of patients across multiple hospitals.

Why You Need a Modern Digital Health Platform

In today’s Intensive Care Unit, 1 out of 4 patients experiences medical errors during their stay in the ICU 3.
There are currently 150 serious errors in every 1000 patient days 4.
Patients suffer 36 preventable adverse events in every 1000 patient days 3.
Society of Critical Care Medicine reports an average estimated cost of $10,000/day in an ICU. Errors generate costs up to $49 billion per year from preventable medical errors 5.

Impact of the AWARE™ Digital Health Platform

At-a-glance situational awareness makes your data work for you and supports both on-site and remote staff
Patient-centered collaborative care reduces transfers maximizing bed utilization and patient flow
Patient data is organized by organs and systems; all organ systems are displayed at once leads to less time looking for information within the EHRs
Facilitates timely delivery of evidence-based interventions standardizing care
EHR agnostic and minimal IT investment

Sustainable Digital Health

Ambient Clinical Analytics has been granted three (3) patents and has three (3) patents pending for AWARE™. Ambient continues to develop innovative features and products through joint development research projects with highly respected medical teaching university hospitals along with one of the world’s highest-ranking health systems (for 10 years running). These deep clinical relationships result in amazing digital health innovation and telehealth solutions that are clinically vetted and developed with physicians and nurses. Ambient will continue to invest major resources in delivering innovation to the digital health markets to improve patient outcomes and drive high-reliability healthcare.

AWARE™ is not just for large health systems. We serve a critical role for underserved populations by managing ICUs in regional and critical access hospitals and supporting on-site clinical staff. It is important to note that while AWARE™ can be utilized in an expensive centralized hub-style deployment, it is portable and not a requirement. AWARE™ is a collaboration platform and can be deployed in a de-centralized Clinical Mesh Network™ that allows for care from anywhere. AWARE™ is a scalable solution that extends critical care resources to the bedside using digital health and is independent of the clinician’s or the hospital’s physical location. A Clinical Mesh Network™ model permits intensivists to be responsible for many remote ICU beds and hospital locations in a significantly more efficient manner than legacy e-ICU systems.

“Critical care requires turning massive amounts of raw data into actionable knowledge and many of the electronic tools at our disposal make this more complicated than necessary. This information overload frustrates clinicians and exposes patients to diagnostic errors and therapeutic harm. AWARE is different. It was built by intensivists using principles of human factors engineering, gathering the data that’s important to me and displaying it in a way that minimizes cognitive load. As far as I’m concerned it’s the gold standard for how smart clinical analytics and data visualization can improve communication, efficiency, situational awareness, and safety. Unlike any other system I’ve used, AWARE shows me what I need to see, at the point of care, organized in the way that I think. Whether it’s deployed in my ICU or as a telemedicine solution, AWARE helps me approach my patients in a more effective, informed, and organized fashion. ”

John M.

Litell, Intensivist and ED Physician

References

1Pickering, et al., Novel Representation of Clinical Information in the ICU, Applied Clinical Informatics, 2010

2Pickering, Litell, et al, Clinical review: The hospital of the future – building intelligent environments to facilitate safe and effective acute care delivery, Critical Care, 2012

3Levinson, Daniel. “Adverse Events in Hospitals: National Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries.” OEI-06-09-00090, Page 50 Table G-1, Department of Health and Human Services – Office of Inspector General,Nov. 2010, https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-06-09-00090.pdf.

4Rothschild, JM. “The Critical Care Safety Study: The incidence and nature of adverse events and serious medical errors in intensive care.” PMID: 16096443, National Center for Biotechnology Information – PubMed, Aug. 2015, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16096443.

5Andel, C. “The economics of health care quality and medical errors.” PMID: 23155743, National Center for Biotechnology Information – PubMed, Fall 2012, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23155743.

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