WAUKESHA, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare today announced the FDA-cleared CARESCAPE™ Monitor B850, which provides caregivers with a unique level of integration between patient monitoring data and hospital information systems. Unlike traditional patient monitors, CARESCAPE Monitor B850 directly links hospital networks, electronic medical records (EMRs), diagnostic images, lab results and third-party devices with real-time patient monitoring data, to support efficient clinical decision-making. This enables CARESCAPE Monitor B850 to integrate its continuous clinical measurements with other elements of the patient record, delivering it at the point of care.

The CARESCAPE Monitor B850 brings together the strong clinical heritage of Datex-Ohmeda's anesthesia and Marquette Electronics' cardiac expertise. It provides customized clinical information displays by care area and clinician preference, while also enabling hospitals to standardize on a monitoring platform throughout the organization. Developed with thousands of hours of field and in-house testing, the CARESCAPE Monitor B850 is the latest product in the GE Healthcare CARESCAPE portfolio, designed to deliver streamlined access to critical patient information for enhanced decision making.

"The CARESCAPE Monitor B850 reflects GE's commitment to a new approach to patient monitoring-one that transforms streams of once uncoordinated patient data into meaningful, easily accessible clinical intelligence," said David Ataide, vice president and general manager of Monitoring Solutions and Diagnostic Cardiology, GE Healthcare. "Empowering doctors and nurses with quality patient information supports fast, easy clinical decision-making, which may lead to improved patient outcomes, the foundation of GE's Clinical Information Logistics vision. Because each hospital care area treats a unique group of patients with distinct clinical needs, the CARESCAPE Monitor B850 now enables standardization on a single monitoring platform that can be customized to meet specific care area demands."
The CARESCAPE Monitor B850 is part of an easy to use system that can be customized to meet a variety of clinical needs. For example:

* ECG-Traditionally, when a patient experiences chest pain, a caregiver must find and move an ECG machine from a different location to the patient's bedside. The CARESCAPE Monitor B850 not only enables 'cart-less' diagnostic ECGs at the bedside, but also exchanges data with the MUSE ECG repository, facilitating ECG analysis and comparisons to the patient's prior ECG, supporting more informed clinical decisions.

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