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Critical careTrendsTM

Intensive Care Unit Critical careTrends

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Critical careTrends™ solution builds upon the basic features of the careTrends™ platform to provide a more comprehensive solution required in Intensive Care Units critical care settings. Data from medical devices is automatically sent to the EMR, thereby linking the Point of Care directly to the nursing terminal. The inherent instability of ICU patients requires constant monitoring and access to the appropriate expertise of caregivers with a broad knowledge base and ability to prioritize among numerous problems.

Intensive Care Units Critical careTrends™ works with existing wired and wireless network infrastructure, applications, vital sign monitors and EMR’s. Most important is that CareTrends is EMR neutral and medical device vendor neutral.

CareTrends technology provides access to patients’ records, real-time continuous vital sign data at any location via PDA, pager, mobile phone or the Internet. This allows for the transfer of patients from critical care units to lower acuity settings. All data is time and date stamped, allowing for a comprehensive audit trail for each set of reading.

Studies performed by John Hopkins researchers have found that remote monitoring of ICU patients provides sufficient care and reduces the average length of stay in the ICU and related costs by 33%. With the use of the Critical careTrends™ solution, caregivers can improve quality of care and reduce unintended harm associated with inaccurate and untimely vital sign data for ICU patients. Moreover, by preventing medical errors and additional complications for ICU patients, hospitals reduce operating costs by avoiding extended stays in the Intensive Care Unit.

Agnostic Wireless Integration and Intelligence: CareTrends* server supports multiple Operating Systems (Windows, Unix, Linux) and multiple Databases (Oracle XE, Oracle 10g, My SQL.

This system allows comprehensive vital signs monitoring on a common automated system across your entire hospital when used with Med Surg careTrends™

Critical careTrends™ has a proven track record in use within hospitals since 2006 with dramatic efficiency and ROI. The benefits— complete, accurate and real time data in your EMR, streamlined clinician workflow, and improved patient care and satisfaction — all made possible through CareTrends.

Contact an Intensive Care Unit Specialist  today to discuss the efficiency improvements you will see within your hospital.


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Benefits

Benefits of Medical Device Connectivity

  • TImprove hospital workflow.
  • Automate data flow and interface it to the Healthcare Information System application.
  • Return nurses to the patient bedside, rather than spending time to manually enter patient data such as vital signs data from written on scraps of paper, into the EMR.
  • Reduce errors caused by manually entered data, and provide single “source of truth” for patient ID and other key data.
  • Increase patient safety at your hospital. Real time patient information allows clinicians to make more-informed decisions about patients.
  • Reduce medical errors.

This process also enables healthcare providers to meet reporting requirements for quality measures required for Meaningful Use.