GE's CARESCAPE line of products
provides connectivity, coordination
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.
