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GE Healthcare

Simplified Patient
Alarm Management

A fluent system of clinical intelligence.

At every step of the care process, decisions are made that

affect patient outcomes. It’s essential that caregivers have

the most current, relevant patient information when and

where they need it. That’s why we’ve made it our mission

to enable Clinical Information Logistics™ – creating a fluent

system of clinical intelligence that delivers the right information

at the right time and place to help you make informed decisions.

Clinical Information Logistics aligns people, processes and

technologies to streamline workflow and bring caregivers

closer to their patients. The GE Healthcare patient monitoring

CARESCAPE™ Network, along with the Ascom Mobile Monitoring

Gateway (MMG), can help you improve patient care.

Add value to
patient monitoring.

One system, countless winners

In the modern hospital environment there is an increasing demand
for improved standards of patient care. This represents a challenge
to administrators and staff, as these improvements must often be
delivered at the same time patient volumes are increasing. Interfacing
patient monitoring with wireless hospital communications simplifies
patient alarm management, and helps to align people, processes and
technologies. Workflows are streamlined to help clinicians ensure
the best possible outcomes. The GE Ascom solution – GE Healthcare’s
patient monitoring CARESCAPE Network with the Ascom Mobile
Monitoring Gateway – represents an excellent solution to help
ensure these benefits can be enjoyed in every hospital.

Leverage existing infrastructure

Hospitals have a significant investment in their IT infrastructure. With
the GE Ascom solution, the hospital can preserve this investment.
By leveraging the existing IT infrastructure to forward secondary
alarms to the people who need them, patient alarm management
is simplified. One common GE infrastructure underlies a full spectrum
of clinical and communication solutions, thereby helping to reduce
training time, improve interoperability, and eliminate the need to
manage multiple systems.

Wireless benefits

Experience tells us that applying wireless communication solutions is
most effective when there is a clear potential to speed up processes,
cut costs and improve patient care. These benefits combine to create
a competitive edge for the hospital. Putting information into the hands
of the caregiver can result in less waiting time, less paperwork, higher
patient satisfaction, better inventory control and lower liability risks.
Wireless solutions help to relieve stress and improve job satisfaction.

Forwarding secondary alarms to mobile handsets.

Optimized alarm notification

Access to alarms is facilitated at any time, any place
within the facility. Alarm management is also improved
through filtering and prioritization, avoiding alarm
fatigue.

Ensuring an alarm notification reaches the right caregiver
wherever they are on campus is vital. To deliver this, the
GE Ascom solution has been created to add mobility to
patient data distribution in real time.

Inbuilt security and safety

When it comes to the area of message acknowledgement
and forwarding, the system increases reliability in the alarm
management process. For example, if nobody acknowledges
or rejects the message, it will be automatically escalated to
the next person in line within a pre-set time.

For further convenience, messages can be highlighted with
colors according to their priority/urgency or to identify a specific
sender. Color coding can also be used to indicate a message
status. To begin with, the message is red. When somebody
accepts the message, it changes to yellow and when actions
have been completed it changes to green.

Addressing the information silo issue

Workflow fragmentation and the accumulation of silos of
information are problems that affect most hospitals. Users
regularly complain of having to switch between systems,
memorize specific interfaces and constantly enter and
leave complex screens to access the data they need. The
GE Ascom solution streamlines these processes for quick,
easy data access.

Logging and proof of care

Logging of alarm events for workflow optimization and
legal aspects helps to ensure accountability. Electronic
documentation of, for example, response time to alarms
improves the hospital’s position in the event of litigation.
Audit trails can also be traced and root cause analysis
capability (”related activities”) can be improved.

Save time and reduce stress

The system is less intrusive and tiresome for staff –
they additionally receive data from their dedicated
patients directly to their mobile handset. This has a
double-positive effect in that it reduces time losses in
the workflow and allows nurses to perform other duties.

Designed for robust performance.

The hospital environment is tough and equipment
intended to be used there needs to be rugged and
robust, no questions asked. The GE Ascom solution
does this, providing users with a high performance
wireless communications solution.

Inevitably, the hospital environment presents challenges
to equipment. This is why the GE Ascom solution offers
a possibility to use high quality, rugged hand-held units
that are classified according to IP64 and shock resistant
according to IEC 68-2-32. Hand-held units can be
disinfected, meaning your hospital staff can enjoy
high performance handsets and a solution that meets
rigorous infection control requirements.

A major defining factor on the efficiency of any
communication solution is coverage. The GE Ascom
solution is designed to deliver this over a defined
area throughout your facility – even in basements,
culverts and radiology areas.

No two hospitals function the same way, are organized along

the same lines, or have identical infrastructures. Every hospital

is unique and it makes perfect sense to create a solution that

reflects this. With the GE Ascom solution, these differences

are taken into consideration, allowing for the creation of a

solution that is made to measure and includes a full range of

complementary services including installation, commissioning,

training, maintenance and service.

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General Electric Company reserves the right to make
changes in specifications and features shown herein, or
discontinue the product described at any time without
notice or obligation. Contact your GE Representative for
the most current information.

GE and GE Monogram are trademarks of General Electric
Company.

Clinical Information Logistics and CARESCAPE are
trademarks of General Electric Company.

GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company.

About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical
technologies and services that are shaping a new age of
patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and
information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient
monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical
manufacturing technologies, performance improvement
and performance solutions services help our customers
to deliver better care to more people around the world
at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare
leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change
necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable
healthcare systems.

Our “healthymagination” vision for the future invites
the world to join us on our journey as we continuously
develop innovations focused on reducing costs,
increasing access and improving quality around
the world. Headquartered in the United Kingdom,
GE Healthcare is a unit of General Electric Company
(NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employees are
committed to serving healthcare professionals and
their patients in more than 100 countries. For more
information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at
www.gehealthcare.com.

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