GE Healthcare Announces First Deployment Of Apexpro FH Telemetry System On Carescape Enterprise Access At Memorial Hospital North
Opened in April 2007, Memorial Hospital North of Colorado Springs, Colorado showcases a full range of patient-centric innovations, including state-of-the-art operating suites, private patient rooms, medical libraries and high-speed, wireless Internet access for visitors. CARESCAPE Enterprise Access furthers the hospital's commitment to innovation by providing a secure, comprehensive platform for wireless voice and data communications. Using CARESCAPE Enterprise Access, clinicians can access critical patient information and communicate more effectively which supports better patient care. Powered by MobileAccess and its Wire-it-Once™ infrastructure, CARESCAPE Enterprise Access enables the hospital to quickly adapt to emerging wireless requirements and expansions without disrupting operations or interrupting services.
Memorial Hospital North deployed CARESCAPE Enterprise Access to provide reliable performance for telemetry, cellular phone service, public safety communications, and radio frequency identification (RFID). Recently, Memorial Hospital North added ApexPro FH without disrupting operations or interrupting services. GE's medical telemetry system provides Memorial North with a large-capacity (up to 640 patients) wireless patient monitoring system with significant protection from signal interference and dropout. The system uses a bi-directional, frequency-hopping, spread-spectrum infrastructure, allowing it to "hop around" the frequency spectrum to help prevent interference. By helping to protect life-critical patient data transmissions from interference, dropout and downtime, the solution supports optimal patient care by helping to support better caregiver communication and productivity.
"As a pioneer in patient-centered innovations, we implemented CARESCAPE Enterprise Access and GE's medical telemetry system to ensure that we were leveraging the best technology available to support our aggressive patient care objectives," said Tom Kerwin, chief information officer, Memorial Health System. "We've been very pleased with the results. With our CARESCAPE solution, clinicians report that they have easier, faster access to critical patient information, which is helping them respond to patients faster and make better, more informed care decisions. From our perspective, there's no better outcome."
Clinicians in high-acuity environments require reliable, uninterrupted access to critical patient information. GE Healthcare is addressing this need with its CARESCAPE portfolio; a new approach to patient monitoring that integrates patient monitoring devices, communications networks and IT systems to provide easy access to patient information from a variety of devices - wireless, desktop or bedside. The CARESCAPE portfolio is intended to help clinicians act earlier in the care process to preserve and improve patient care.
"The CARESCAPE portfolio demonstrates our focus on providing customers with innovative products and services that work together to help clinicians deliver quality patient care," said David Ataide, Vice President & General Manager of GE Healthcare Monitoring Solutions. "We share Memorial Hospital North's commitment to superior patient care and are pleased that their experience with CARESCAPE reflects these shared goals."
About Memorial Hospital North
Memorial Health System is a leading employer and provider of comprehensive health care services in southern Colorado. As a self-supporting city enterprise, Memorial receives no tax subsidy, yet treats everyone regardless of ability to pay. Being locally-owned and operated means all health system revenues are reinvested into the health system and programs to create a healthier community.
In April, 2007, Memorial Health System opened the first new hospital in Colorado Springs in more than 30 years, Memorial Hospital North. A patient-centered environment is central to the design of the new hospital, with a two-story atrium lobby and views of Pikes Peak. Patient-centered medical libraries and wireless, high-speed internet access help guests stay informed and connected. For more information on Memorial Health System, log onto http://www.memorialhealthsystem.com.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.
GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.
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