The Kaweah Delta Medical Center in Visalia, Calif., announced it is using the wireless Draeger Infinity M300 patient-worn (telemetry) monitor to enhance patient care management.
The medical center said it’s leveraging this WiFi-based solution to access vital signs data -- and this allows for quick assessment and decision support to improve health of the patients.
Draeger has successfully established two-way communication with the Infinity CentralStation, which in turn is completely networked with the hospital information system. This modern health IT system has the ability to support comprehensive data sharing.
Before deploying Infinity M300 units, the staff was challenged by Kaweah Delta’s aging telemetry monitors supplied by a different manufacturer that ran on a proprietary network.
Communication improved significantly after the deployment because Infinity M300 devices connect to the hospital’s wireless network via Draeger’s Infinity OneNet infrastructure.
This in turn allows the hospital to securely move life-critical patient data on its existing network. Following the deployment, the hospital no longer has to install additional network components, is enjoying streamlining network management and has also saved the expense of maintaining a separate wireless network for the telemetry system.
Draeger bedside monitors are also installed hospital-wide and all of these are connected to the Infinity CentralStation over the Infinity Network.
Dave Gravender, vice president and chief information officer of Kaweah Delta Health Care District noted that the addition of the M300 to its existing Infinity CentralStation solution has allowed them to have one single network with everything using that network.
“As a result of this kind of setup, you can improve the management of your space and staff resources and can standardize your processes better,” said Les Bauer, RN, BSN, CCRN and nurse manager of the ICCU/3W at Kaweah Delta Medical Center. “Now we can leave each patient in the specialty that takes care of them best and still be able to monitor them remotely.”
Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for HealthTechZone. To read more of Anuradha’s article, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
Marisa Torrieri
