Philips launches new patient monitoring platform
Solution helps clinicians stay informed and improves workflow in busy hospital environments
Royal Philips Electronics has announced the release of the Philips IntelliVue Information Center iX (PIIC iX), a new patient monitoring platform designed to meet the demands of complex hospital environments.
PIIC iX supports care quality initiatives with personalised and consolidated views and clinical decision support tools to help clinicians see patient status and changes in a patient’s condition.
PIIC iX advances hospital mobility and workflow efforts by offering the ability to remotely view trends via web or iPad, enabling physicians to stay abreast of patients’ conditions from remote locations. The solution also provides actionable insights that can lead to streamlined clinical workflow and enhanced patient care, while supporting IT standards.
“PIIC iX brings together data from various IntelliVue patient monitors and devices into streamlined clinical views, delivering more information in a more intuitive way where and when the clinician needs it,” said Lori Lazzara, general manager of patient monitoring systems for Philips Healthcare. “The result is simplified clinical workflows which can help optimise scarce resources in challenging processes such as patient transport.”
PIIC iX specifically focuses on helping healthcare professionals make more rapid, well-informed decisions. Facilitating early identification and treatment of STEMI, a certain type of heart attack, can help save and improve lives. Philips’ exclusive CDS tool, the STEMI Limit Map, can help clinicians to quickly detect at-risk patients. The Alarm Audit Log also enables hospitals to analyse alarm data in order to optimise alarm limits and reduce clinically non-actionable alarms. Philips also recently introduced Alarm Assessment and Evaluation consulting services to review and address nursing workflow in order to optimise the implementation of new systems in the most productive way possible, providing a total solutions approach in aiding hospitals as they address the issue of alarm fatigue.
“PIIC iX helps to address the important area of alarm fatigue by supporting hospital research on alarm management and sentinel events,” said Lazzara.
Exclusive VMware Ready certification means the PIIC iX server can interoperate with a virtual infrastructure and has met VMware integration and interoperability standards. VMware Ready server virtualisation also helps IT departments maintain high availability, reduce clinical downtime and control costs.