Advanced patient monitoring

Advanced patient monitoring is the emerging understanding that the key to better and more efficient delivery of healthcare requires a significantly improved knowledge of how a patient's physiology is continuously changing in response to disease, injury or treatment.

The Patient Status Engine, which combines new digital, wireless and sensor technologies with deep learning and other predictive analytic methods, is able to create new and more resilient care pathways in which fewer patients will need to be admitted to hospital and more care will be delivered at home. This relieves pressure on staff, frees up hospital beds for those who need them the most, addresses severe staff shortages, COVID-19 burnout, and increases patient safety. It automates patient observations, virtually eliminates technical and other false alarms, and enables paperless wards to be set up within hours.

The Patient Status Engine offers continuous real-time monitoring of all patients, particularly those who identified as higher risk cases, whose status would otherwise only be checked intermittently by manual observations. By significantly improving patient monitoring and providing more robust and timely early warning indicators, the PSE enables healthcare providers to reduce the number of in-hospital avoidable deaths and costly adverse events even with limited nursing resources.

The enhanced automated monitoring makes it possible to identify trends in a patient’s health status while at the same time offering a new sense of freedom, reassurance and security for patients and their families.

The Patient Status Engine is unique in being a configurable end-to-end monitoring system while at the same time being a fully certified medical device. A true platform technology, it has multiple applications capturing and delivering the fundamental physiological data that inform nearly all areas of clinical practice. Key focus is on enabling healthcare professionals to improve patient care while enhancing the experience for patients and their families, regardless of whether they are in a hospital, specialized clinics or at home.

The PSE is currently being used in the UK, Germany, Norway, Denmark, India, Singapore and the USA. As healthcare delivery is different in each of these geographical areas, the platform nature of the PSE offers simple configurability for seamless integration into local work flows and practices.