From the May 2018 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine


Knowing that the company is asking patients to be continuously monitored, Medtronic has a goal of minimizing insignificant alarms.

“We try to understand our clients' baseline – what they're monitoring, and their goals,” said Strandberg. “Our Vital Sync Smart Alarm management suite tries to minimize insignificant or irrelevant alarms. The technology has evolved tremendously.”


Mindray North America
Mindray North America had a number of major releases this year. The first was its new BeneVision Distributed Monitoring System (DMS), which allows clinicians to view patient information in real time both within the hospital at traditional settings, such as a central monitoring station or remotely outside the hospital on a laptop or mobile device using Wi-Fi, cellular service, or a secure virtual private network.

The new architecture also allows staff from different departments, such as the ED and ICU, to manage and view patients and patient information from across the hospital enterprise.

“Maybe the ICU clinician wants to view a patient in the emergency department before they are transferred in, but they don't want someone in the ED to have the ability to discharge a patient in the ICU,” said Kelley Murphy, strategic marketing manager for monitoring systems at ‎Mindray North America. "The beauty of BeneVision DMS is that it is completely configurable and allows customization that really fits clinical workflow."

In the first quarter of 2018, the company also released the BeneVision TM80 Telemetry Transmitter, which can be deployed using standard Wi-Fi instead of dedicated wireless medical telemetry service (WTMS).

“Wi-Fi deployment is prevalent in hospitals, so more and more customers are interested in leveraging this investment,” Murphy said.

Mindray's T1 Transport Monitor/Module, released in late 2015, was also integrated into the company's new BeneVision DMS. The T1 can function as a bedside monitor with 19-inch display and a lightweight transport monitor. It can wirelessly transmit all data to the BeneVision DMS. Because it can also hold up to 48 hours of data, the T1 can backfill into the EMR if needed.

“Whether you're wireless or not, you're never losing the patient data,” said Beth Aquaviva, patient monitoring marketing manager for Mindray.

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