Philips offers end-to-end cardiac care monitoring
Philips is using its remote ECG monitoring technology to help providers transform how healthcare is delivered to improve patient care. So that means delivering timely, actionable patient data insights to accelerate clinical decisions and streamline workflows inside and outside the hospital in one location to better monitor patients.
"Having this all integrated into one area and creating a platform where you can actually view the reports and the data that comes from these remote monitors, this data repository becomes very critical,” explains DJ Lakkireddy, MD. “Having this type of data repository I think is a very important piece of the puzzle, especially with the advancement of electronic medical records and when you add auto-flagging and on top of that add artificial intelligence."
Philips offers several remote monitoring devices, including its Mobile Cardiac Telemetry (MCOT) system. It offers AI to help monitor rhythm, QRS morphology, rate and P wave analysis, which is used to flag events so clinicians can be notified quickly. Physicians can set the protocols for alert thresholds. This includes protocols for breakthrough AFib. Philips says 74% of all arrhythmias are detected in the first 14 days of monitoring.
"We are making sure the data we deliver to our clinicians is intelligent and actionable to them to help improve their workflow and have the data they need at their figure tips to take the right action at the right time to drive care into the right setting that is the most cost-effective at the right time," says Jen Lavelle, global business marketing lead, Philips ECG Solutions. "What is unique about Philips is that we can connect that entire cardiac care pathway end-to-end for the whole care continuum."
Dave Fornell has covered healthcare for more than 17 years, with a focus in cardiology and radiology. Fornell is a 5-time winner of a Jesse H. Neal Award, the most prestigious editorial honors in the field of specialized journalism. The wins included best technical content, best use of social media and best COVID-19 coverage. Fornell was also a three-time Neal finalist for best range of work by a single author. He produces more than 100 editorial videos each year, most of them interviews with key opinion leaders in medicine. He also writes technical articles, covers key trends, conducts video hospital site visits, and is very involved with social media. E-mail: dfornell@innovatehealthcare.com