Remote Patient Monitoring
Remote patient monitoring uses digital data feeds and clinical analytics to collect medical and other forms of health data from individuals, EHRs, and other medical devices into one solution and electronically transmit that information securely to health care providers in a different location for assessment, recommendations, and therapeutics. This type of service allows a provider to track patients while in a hospital or health system and in some cases continue to track healthcare data for a patient once released to their home or care facility.
Monitoring programs can collect a wide range of health data from the point of care, such as labs, medications, vital signs, weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, blood oxygen levels, heart rate, and electrocardiograms.
This data is then viewed by health professionals in remote facilities such as monitoring centers in primary care settings, hospitals, intensive care units, skilled nursing facilities, and centralized off-site case management programs. Health professionals monitor these patients remotely and act on the information received as part of the treatment plan.
Saving Time and Money with Remote Patient Monitoring
Patient monitoring programs help keep people healthy and reduce costs in several ways. Remote Patient Monitoring allows older or disabled individuals to live at home and avoid moving into skilled nursing facilities. In hospital and health systems, remote patient monitoring allows providers to track patients from admit to discharge while clinically managing their care.
Remote Patient Monitoring can also serve to reduce the Length of Stay in ICU’s and general inpatient beds, reduce the number of hospitalizations and readmissions, all of which improve the quality of care life while containing costs.
Meeting the Need with Ambient Clinical Analytics
Ambient’s Clinical Control Tower is an all-in-one solution providing real-time analytics and data visualization capabilities from both our AWARE and Sepsis DART solutions. This solution also allows for data to pipe in from multiple locations through a single access point for clinical command center style operations.
Designed to deliver clinically important information at both the point-of-care and centralized locations. Ambient’s Clinical Control Tower solution can be configured to view multiple locations through a single access point - without the need to be on the same EMR.
• Clinical surveillance through remote patient monitoring
• Command center and point-of-care delivery
• Remote and distributed access of clinical analytics for physicians and nurses
Current Industry Trends
The latest industry trends are around integrating remote patient monitoring, clinical analytics and data visualization solutions with Virtual ICU platforms that are extended to all general inpatient beds. Integrated Virtual ICU platforms that include remote patient monitoring help physicians and nurses effectively monitor all hospital beds, in addition to the ICU beds, and help track patient deterioration using automatic APACHE, qSofa, MEWS, Sepsis, & Ventilator Induced Lung Injury (VILI) sniffers. Integrated early warnings with traditional telehealth or tele-ICU software, along with the ability to track patients from admit to discharge, make Virtual ICU platforms ideal for driving situational awareness through real-time point of care access to vital process-of-care information and real time analytics, allowing providers to remotely monitor and manage every bed in the health system like it is an ICU bed.
Tele or Virtual ICU’s, extended to all beds in a hospital, increase a health systems ability to handle ICU surge and improves the safety for both the clinicians and the patients making Virtual ICU platforms ideal for dealing with the large-scale patient fluctuations like COVID-19 outbreaks. These types of platforms present a complete remote patient monitoring solution.
The AWARE Clinical Control Tower Advantage
Care through remote patient monitoring 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 physicians and nurses and displaying it in a way that minimizes cognitive load. 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 on today’s market, AWARE shows you what you need to see, at the point of care, organized in the way that you think. Whether it’s deployed in my ICU or as a tele ICU solution or extended to the general inpatient beds, AWARE helps clinicians approach patients in a more effective, informed, and organized fashion.
Additionally, because of its agnostic nature, AWARE Clinical Control Tower can capture data from any device or other early warning solutions and serve it up in an integrated workflow. AWARE is a remote patient monitoring platform that can house many types of integrated solutions within a single access point for providers making nurse and physician workflows far superior compared to anything they have previously experienced. Contact us today if you’re interested in learning more.
