Thursday, January 08, 2015
Capsule Tech, Inc., the leading global provider of medical device integration solutions, recently announced the general availability of SmartLinx, healthcare's first medical device information system (MDIS).
"Healthcare organizations are asking us to provide a wide range of real-time medical device data –physiologic data, therapeutic device settings, and device alarms - to systems beyond the patient record or EMR. To drive clinical and operational improvements, they want to integrate the data we already capture from each connected medical device with additional systems, such as alarms management, patient surveillance, clinical decision support, and asset management," said Kevin Phillips, Capsule Vice President of Marketing and Product Management. "Customers now see the intrinsic value of applying the depth and breadth of the real-time data captured by our products – virtually every data point from every device – to many other areas of their enterprise. The release of SmartLinx provides the platform to respond to all of these trends."
"SmartLinx is a major evolution of Capsule's DataCaptor, healthcare's most widely deployed medical device integration product. This first release delivers major advancements in both our hardware and software solutions that enable healthcare organizations to more effectively harness the power of their medical device data," added Phillips. Among these advancements are the SmartLinx Axon™ family of terminal server products, and the SmartLinx Neuron 2™ mobile clinical computer. Both allow improved wireless security, increased integration options to connect between one and eight devices, and improved remote management capabilities. In addition, the Neuron 2 enables nursing to positively associate medical devices with the proper patient in all deployment scenarios. Additionally, when it is used in lower acuity departments, the Neuron provides a configurable integrated early warning scoring system (EWSS) that immediately calculates a score before the clinician leaves the bedside. This empowers the clinician to identify subtle changes in the patient's state while with the patient and intervene right when it's needed.
More than SmartLinx's accurate capture of data is the significance of enabling clinicians, and clinical engineering and IT to analyze and act appropriately on the data. This will enable healthcare organization to address new use cases that include:
SmartLinx has been deployed and is currently being deployed at hospitals across the country.
About Capsule
Capsule is the leading global provider of medical device integration solutions for hospitals and healthcare organizations. Capsule's SmartLinx Medical Device Information System (MDIS) increases efficiency and improves patient care through the systematic real-time capture of patient vitals at the point-of-care and the delivery of those data to hospital electronic medical records, other information systems and third party mobile solutions. Founded in 1997, the Company has established strong partnerships with leading medical device manufacturers and installed enterprise-wide solutions in over 1,800 hospitals in 37 countries.
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