Cleveland Clinic is teaming up with Masimo in a new partnership focused on remote patient monitoring in hospitals and virtual critical care.
WHY IT MATTERS
According to the company, the work will include integrating Cleveland Clinic’s critical care and non-critical care patient monitoring platforms with Masimo’s Hospital Automation platform to provide clinicians with tools to “enhance situational awareness and clinical decision support for hospitalized patients, including critically ill patients.”
The health system will also work with the vendor on initiatives involving predictive analytics and other AI-based algorithms, with a particular focus on cardiology, they said.
Cleveland Clinic now has a central critical care and non-critical care monitoring platform that enables continuous vital signs monitoring for both critical care and non-ICU patients, with RPM programs serving 11 hospitals and providing intensive care monitoring, 24/7 critical care nursing, and patient management.
Meanwhile, Masimo’s hospital automation platform is built around tools designed to help clinicians enhance care not just at the bedside but wherever a patient may be in the care continuum. These technologies include monitoring and wearable sensors, high-fidelity medical device integration, data monitoring and visualization applications, and other AI-powered technologies to help clinicians triage patients and detect changes in their condition faster and more efficiently.
They are powered by the company’s Halo engine, “capable of identifying patterns of decline across multiple physiological parameters at once,” Masimo said.
Cleveland Clinic will work with the developer to jointly develop other Halo-based decision support tools to help clinicians detect adverse events early in patients with varying degrees of severity. With Masimo, the health system also aims to bring the innovations and patient benefits “to other health care systems in the future,” the company said in a press release.
THE BIGGER TREND
As more large health systems implement or enhance existing RPM, tele-ICU, and hospital-at-home initiatives, many of them are seeing the programs deliver big returns—in patient care, provider experience, and bottom line.
But these care modalities are not without risks, and the success of online and remote care depends on thoughtful implementation.
ON PROFILE
“We look forward to exploring the implications of next-generation inpatient wearables, and as AI capabilities continue to evolve, we will study the potential impact on the care of cardiac patients, including those undergoing cardiac surgery,” Dr. Thomas Callahan, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic Heart and Thoracic Institute and principal investigator of the AI study, said in a statement.
“By harnessing Masimo’s AI-based decision support tools, automation solutions and monitoring equipment, along with Cleveland Clinic’s deep clinical expertise and dedication to providing the highest quality and most innovative care, our partnership has the potential to significantly reduce staff shortages, better standardize care and promote physician-led and specialist-led care,” added Masimo founder and CEO Joe Kiani.
Mike Miliard is executive editor of Healthcare IT News
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