Columbus Regional Hospital (CRH), a not-for-profit, regional health system based in southeastern Indiana, has partnered with Nihon Kohden America to deploy key telemetry and enterprise monitoring technology in their 225-bed facility. The partnership supports CRH’s Innovation Center, an initiative to promote innovation into all hospital activities and enhance the way it provides healthcare.
CRH provides emergency and surgical services and has heart, chest pain, primary stroke, lung and cancer centers, and several other specialty areas of treatment. Telemetry installation in the hospital commenced March 5 this year, and the facility rolled out Nihon Kohden technology in its emergency department on March 22.
The technology will be subsequently implemented in all other areas of the hospital and the ICU/OR unit has been scheduled to receive the final installation on June 25.
"We recognize that Nihon Kohden is helping hospitals save lives and avoid costs while facing unprecedented challenges to the healthcare system,” said Carolyn O'Neal, CRH director of nursing. “We selected Nihon Kohden because we believe we will garner better detection of both ischemic events and arrhythmias by monitoring 8 leads of ECG, as well as gain the ability to make any bed a fully monitored cardiac bed with the NTX transmitter.”
The NTX has been ergonomically designed to offer patients mobility and comfort. The technology allows caregivers to monitor higher-acuity patients on a more flexible basis, and bridges the gap between ambulatory transmitters and conventional bedside monitors.
The transmitter supports monitoring of up to eight leads of NIBP, ECG, SpO2 and respiration through a central monitor. It features an integrated 2.2 inch color screen to display real-time, continuous vital parameters and waveforms, and provides extensive data review options.
“We believe our solutions align firmly with the hospital's mission found at the CRH Innovation Center,” said Mike Dashefsky, vice president, Nihon Kohden America. “Columbus Regional Hospital is taking systematic steps to evolve the way they deliver healthcare, testing innovation as a central strategy. Innovation helps them deliver the best care in the most efficient and effective way, and we're proud that Nihon Kohden now will help them further distinguish themselves from the competition."
Edited by
Braden Becker
