GE's CARESCAPE line of products
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provides connectivity, coordination
GE Healthcare Receives FDA Clearance for CARESCAPE Patient Data Module for Mobile Patient Monitoring
June 05, 2007
by Barbara Kram, Editor
GE Healthcare has announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its CARESCAPE™ Patient Data Module for mobile patient monitoring. Reflecting the industry's most advanced monitoring capabilities, the CARESCAPE Patient Data Module features 24-hour capture of critical patient data and a unique close-to-the-patient, self-powered design that alleviates common portability constraints. The product is a central component of the new GE CARESCAPE portfolio, an integrated suite of patient monitoring devices, communications networks and IT systems designed to transform traditional patient monitoring data into clinical intelligence, enabling clinicians to make critical healthcare decisions faster and more efficiently.
CARESCAPE Patient Data Module ensures that the receiving nurse has a complete monitoring history when a patient arrives. Advancing GE's history of parameter excellence and the customer-proven success of the predecessor product, TRAM®, CARESCAPE Patient Data Module reflects more than 10,000 hours of testing and feedback from more than 700 clinicians. Its innovative, lightweight, miniature design allows it to stay with the patient to capture and store all patient measurements -- both standard and specialty -- providing clinicians with the unique ability to maintain critical baseline measurements typically lost during transport. Its close-to-the-patient design reduces the length of cables that typically tether the patient to wall-mounted equipment, and its simple grab-and-go transport capability reduces the potential for connection delays.
CARESCAPE Patient Data Module is the latest addition to GE Healthcare's CARESCAPE portfolio of innovative patient monitoring products. CARESCAPE products feature parameter excellence, superior device integration and control and clinical decision support capabilities combined with a wireless infrastructure that supports the secure, uninterrupted transmission of patient information. In addition to the Patient Data Module, the CARESCAPE portfolio includes the CARESCAPE CIC Pro, which assimilates real-time and historical patient data from multiple monitoring sources for caregivers; the CARESCAPE iPanel, which aggregates data from multiple systems and devices into a Web-based portal that provides efficient access to care-critical information; CARESCAPE Enterprise Access, a single, integrated wireless platform that enables critical patient data to be securely coordinated without the type of communications interference that can be caused by un-integrated systems; and CARESCAPE Mobile Viewers, which offer clinicians remote access to up-to-the-moment waveforms, numerics, visual alarms and trends for one or multiple patients.
The CARESCAPE portfolio addresses several trends facing hospital systems in the U.S. as cited by recent government and academic reports:
- The number of patients with critical conditions in hospitals grew by 21 percent in a five-year period.
- By 2020 there is expected to be a shortage of 1 million registered nurses in the U.S.
- U.S. demand for patient monitoring systems will grow 5.4 percent annually through 2010, bolstered by technological advances.
- There are nearly 80 million baby boomers in the U.S., and as this population ages, the average acuity of hospitalized patients is projected to grow rapidly.
"The traditional approach to patient monitoring has outlived its usefulness," said David Ataide, Vice President & General Manager for GE Healthcare's Monitoring Solutions business. "Clinicians facing today's healthcare challenges need a new approach. After extensive interviews with some of the world's most forward-thinking hospitals, we developed CARESCAPE. These five products reflect our commitment to helping care providers do their jobs better and ultimately improve patient care."
The addition of CARESCAPE Patient Data Module to the CARESCAPE portfolio affirms GE Healthcare's commitment to providing clinicians with innovative tools to meet the challenges facing today's healthcare system. By providing easy access to quality patient information from any device-wireless, desktop or bedside-GE Healthcare is providing clinicians with valuable productivity gains and the unique opportunity to act earlier in the care process to preserve and help improve patient care.
CARESCAPE Patient Data Module ensures that the receiving nurse has a complete monitoring history when a patient arrives. Advancing GE's history of parameter excellence and the customer-proven success of the predecessor product, TRAM®, CARESCAPE Patient Data Module reflects more than 10,000 hours of testing and feedback from more than 700 clinicians. Its innovative, lightweight, miniature design allows it to stay with the patient to capture and store all patient measurements -- both standard and specialty -- providing clinicians with the unique ability to maintain critical baseline measurements typically lost during transport. Its close-to-the-patient design reduces the length of cables that typically tether the patient to wall-mounted equipment, and its simple grab-and-go transport capability reduces the potential for connection delays.
CARESCAPE Patient Data Module is the latest addition to GE Healthcare's CARESCAPE portfolio of innovative patient monitoring products. CARESCAPE products feature parameter excellence, superior device integration and control and clinical decision support capabilities combined with a wireless infrastructure that supports the secure, uninterrupted transmission of patient information. In addition to the Patient Data Module, the CARESCAPE portfolio includes the CARESCAPE CIC Pro, which assimilates real-time and historical patient data from multiple monitoring sources for caregivers; the CARESCAPE iPanel, which aggregates data from multiple systems and devices into a Web-based portal that provides efficient access to care-critical information; CARESCAPE Enterprise Access, a single, integrated wireless platform that enables critical patient data to be securely coordinated without the type of communications interference that can be caused by un-integrated systems; and CARESCAPE Mobile Viewers, which offer clinicians remote access to up-to-the-moment waveforms, numerics, visual alarms and trends for one or multiple patients.
The CARESCAPE portfolio addresses several trends facing hospital systems in the U.S. as cited by recent government and academic reports:
- The number of patients with critical conditions in hospitals grew by 21 percent in a five-year period.
- By 2020 there is expected to be a shortage of 1 million registered nurses in the U.S.
- U.S. demand for patient monitoring systems will grow 5.4 percent annually through 2010, bolstered by technological advances.
- There are nearly 80 million baby boomers in the U.S., and as this population ages, the average acuity of hospitalized patients is projected to grow rapidly.
"The traditional approach to patient monitoring has outlived its usefulness," said David Ataide, Vice President & General Manager for GE Healthcare's Monitoring Solutions business. "Clinicians facing today's healthcare challenges need a new approach. After extensive interviews with some of the world's most forward-thinking hospitals, we developed CARESCAPE. These five products reflect our commitment to helping care providers do their jobs better and ultimately improve patient care."
The addition of CARESCAPE Patient Data Module to the CARESCAPE portfolio affirms GE Healthcare's commitment to providing clinicians with innovative tools to meet the challenges facing today's healthcare system. By providing easy access to quality patient information from any device-wireless, desktop or bedside-GE Healthcare is providing clinicians with valuable productivity gains and the unique opportunity to act earlier in the care process to preserve and help improve patient care.